Harvard Psychiatrist and MGH Liable for Criminal Sanctions?

Do Johnson and Johnson executives and Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman need to be criminally prosecuted? In deposition, Biederman admitted soliciting J and J for money and a $350 million J and J research center at Mass General Hospital for promoting their antipsychotic Risperdal. Biederman later "tested" Risperdal on little children and put out citations (studies in various manuals) allowing for Medicaid payment for this dangerous antipsychotic for bipolar disorder in children. Medicaid fraud by all three parties and should be criminally and civilly prosecuted by the US Attorney's Office and state Attorney Generals.

The article shows that the Johnson and Johnson Center for Pediatric Psychopathology Research, a center at Massachusetts General Hospital was funded by Johnson and Johnson and headed by Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman from 2002 to 2005. Court documents show that Johnson and Johnson contributed at least $700,000 for the center.

The article also shows how Biederman was promising study results on Risperdal and Concerta to help promote the drugs. This was before he actually did the "studies." Biederman sounds like he belongs in Washington DC, where the politicians are always helping people, while they enrich themsleves on taxpayer money.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/21/senator_broadens_inquiry_into_psychiatrist/

US Senator broadens inquiry into psychiatrist

Suggests MGH doctor was biased in research

Joseph Biederman,

Harvard Child Psychiatrist 


By Liz Kowalczyk 
Boston  Globe Staff
March 21, 2009