Traci Johnson-

Traci Johnson died Feb 7, 2004 – She was a 19 year old college student who signed up for a clinical trial with Eli Lilly. She passed all their screenings and was deemed health. She would receive $150/day for participating in the drug trial.

Eli Lilly was running an experiment to prove duloxetine was safe at higher doses. They gave her a larger than therapeutic dose and 4 days before her death, she was given a placebo.  Unknown to her, she was cold turkeyed, found in the shower, hung herself. A perfectly healthy 19 year old. Eli Lilly said they were not responsible and walked away. They did not stop the clinical trial and the drug was approved.

What did the toxicology report say? How could she be in a clinical trial, die at Eli Lilly’s research facility, on their property, and not held responsible? : We do not believe at this time that the design or conduct of the study is related to the death”- Smith the talking head from Eli Lilly said. Her death should have been a blaring siren about the risks of these drugs and the ethics of this whole system. It was passed on by, the drug was approved. This drug now has over 50,000 people on the facebook group: Cymbalta Hurts Worse- searching for answers on surviving and tapering off of it. . Wow that’s a lot of lives suffering.