Saturday, March 14, 2009

Drug Company Exec Caught In Pussy-For-Pills Scandal

AstraZeneca (AZ) is in some serious shit for suppressing a study that showed the firm's blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel caused diabetes and weight gain. Seroquel made the company $4.4 billion dollars so it's a no-brainer that the company would desperately want to bury the research. Now, the drugmaker (according to the NYT) faces "about 9,000 personal-injury lawsuits from more than 15,000 former users of Seroquel" and a federal investigation into the marketing of the drug.

Now here comes the sex angle on the story. AZ's former medical director for Seroquel Wayne MacFadden admitted to multiple sexual affairs and his offer of drugs to one of the women he was sleeping with. The confessions include descriptions of sex in hotel rooms paid for by AZ, illicit distribution of Vicodin, and a kinky relationship in which one of his female colleagues asked to be "punished" for looking at a study that had negative results for Seroquel.

MacFadden told that woman: "You will be punished (in the usual fashion!) when I see you … but perhaps more harshly this time!!!" See the article at BNET for the juicy details.

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