Serious adverse drug reactions and about 28,000 fatalities. In 2014, the top ten pharmaceutical firms pulled in the 29. 4 billion in revenue with profits ranging 10 to 43 . Its easy to see knowing that why you dont always get the whole truth about the risk of a drug. Companies have paid more than 13 billion to allegations of fraud. Today, a chilling case in point. A pill called risperdol is one of them. This may be too graphic for sensitive adults and children. I went to my parents and was, like, hey, i have a lump and so we went to the doctor for it. Reporter you were, like, 10 years old. Uhhuh. Reporter the pediatrician said not to worry. But joshs mom knew better. She wondered if one factor could be risperdol, the prescription medicine josh had been taking for four years. I like to Research Things so i started researching right away and found a few moms out there kids on risperdol who also developed lumps so i called the pediatrician and said i want him off this medicine. We stopped it that day. Reporter what was the response of the pediatrician trigs when you linked the lump and the medicine. Reporter i think he thought i was just a paranoid mom. But, i dont know,moms intuition, i knew something was wrong. Reporter she was right. Thousands of boys taking risperdol were growing female breasts. Some of them even produced milk. It can happen when a male has a spike in a naturally occurring hormone. Risperdol can cause levels of prolactin to rise. My best friend had a pool and we would swim over there and none of them had, like, breasts or any lumps or anything. Reporter did you ask your friends . I asked one of them, i asked the best friend if he had, like, ever had anything like that. And he said, no, i never noticed. And i was, like, oh, okay, its weird thats happening to me then. He stopped taking the medicine. It was over i think a twoyear period where they said wait six months. We waited the six months. It continued to grow. Then he noticed a lump on the other side. Reporter theres a dark back story. At the time, risperdol wasnt approved for use in children at all but as was later alleged, sales reps were instructed to market them as safe and effective for all kinds of childhood disorders knowing it posed serious healt the attorney representing josh tried the first risperdol case last year, an autistic boy who developed size 46dd breasts. So the better it works the more likely you are to grow breasts. Right. Reporter table 21 from the original risperdol study in 2002 shows 7. 8 of risperdol patients prolactin levels increased developed side effects. An internal document said how do you want to handle the one significant value asked the reviewer . I think we need to discuss this in the manuscript. Instead the head of the study eliminated table 21 according to the attorney. He specifically made the decision not to tell the public, not to tell the doctors, not to tell even the about this study that they did in 2001 or two that specifically finds the Association Even though the law requires it. Reporter a year after the original risperdol study was published without table 21, josh was prescribed risperdol and developed the very problem it seemed to warn about. We saw our child who is this outgoing, happy kid with all regressed, he was shy, stopped going out with his friends, wouldnt take his shirt off at the beach, wouldnt change in front of anybody. It was very difficult. I ran Cross Country starting my eighth grade year and so Cross Country starts in the summer and it gets really hot. So everyone would take their shirts off and i was selfconscious and i didnt take my shirt off. No one else had to make that decision and if i did take it off, i felt selfconscious and was thinking everyone was looking at me, my friends looking at me. Just really bad. Reporter Johnson Johnson had no comment on his case and declined our interview requests. In a statement the company said it did not withhold any relevant data. As to why table 21 was left out a spokesman implied there was no direct correlation. Josh believes otherwise. There are no photos of him at his worst. He chose a drastic solution. We went to the breast surgeon who after seeing him said he has the largest breasts in the a that hed ever seen in this area and agreed to do the surgery. He had a bilateral mastectomy done. He had double drain tubes in for a week. Home nursing came twice a day. He couldnt move. Had to lay flat on his back because if he moved the tubes they did Reconstructive Surgery to remove the nipple and tissue and then replace the nipple. Reporter how old was he . 12 years old. Reporter no one ever knew why josh was out of school those six weeks. Hes one of 10,700 patients suing the drug maker the risks are hidden from the public because the Companies Want to be able to sell as much of their product as possible. Reporter Johnson Johnson told us risperdol has and is still helping millions of patients with debilitating patients with debilitating mental problems. I didnt know some of these boys were lactating. Josh was fortunate to not have and caught on to it quickly and took care of it. But my heart goes out to the kids that arent as lucky. Reporter it takes a lot of guts for josh to talk about what happened for him and even more to show it but hes done siding his scores. About the experience, it was one that i wish i didnt have to go through and i hope all the other kids going through know, i feel bad they had to go through it too because, yeah, the company, i think they knew that this would happen and to make us all of us go through it, you know, its not just like its me and a few other people, its thousands of people that are going through it. So to make all of us going through it, just, they knew just sickening. Reporter last month, a philadelphia jury awarded 70 million to the family of a boy who developed breasts at the age of 5 after taking risperdol. Johnson johnson is challenging that verdict, the largest to date. Jurors found the company intentionally falsified, destroyed, or concealed evidence in the case. The firm wont say how much money its made from risperdol or just ahead, when the u. S. Cut a nuclear deal with iran, iran freed four americans it had accused of spies. Whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Bob levinson, a father of seven, former fbi agent turned private investigator and now the longestheld american captive in history. How that came to be is a cloak and dagger story pieced together by author of the just publish published missing man. This cold case has haunted the levinson family for at least nine years. Several americans unjustly detained by iran are finally coming home. Reporter that announcement was made several months after economic sanctions against iran if it agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons. Iran is the lastknown place that bob levinson was seen and his family says author barry meyer thought he would be among those freed. They were stunned when it was announced that these other prisoners were coming home and the administration didnt even have the courtesy to notify them. They learned about it from watching the news like every other american. Reporter though levinson is to this day, the iranians have never acknowledged holding him captive. The mystery begins in 2007 when levinson supposedly as a private investigator went to an iranian Free Trade Center in the persian gulf. Then he vanished. Meyer began his own investigation into what happened to levinson. First he gained the familys there inside a Conference Room were ten large bankers boxes full of files, and it was, like, an entry into this secret world that bob lived in. Reporter a secret world, meyer says, of gathering information on iran as a contractor for the cia. Meyer says the family had bobs computer hacked after he disappeared that led a paper trail to the agency. I have hundreds of reports sent to the cia. I forth between him and his cia handler. It was undisputable. Reporter so if levinson was working for the cia, why would the agency deny it . The cia declined to comment but meyer has his own idea. They wont say that bob levinson was a cia consultant who went to iran to gather information for the cia and they are refusing to do that because were in the business of collecting intelligence on both our friends and our enemies. Reporter it would be an admission that could endanger other americans overseas who would be treated like suspected spies by hostile nations. The first hint about levinsons disappearance came in 2007 in an email apparently from bob and sent to his family and the fbi. It was one of the most tantalizing clues they might have received. This was an to have been written by bob levinson and it was pleading for help. They never followed up with these individuals. Reporter the fbi wouldnt comment but issued a statement on the ninth anniversary of his disappearance saying the fbi continues to work closely with our Intelligence Community and International Partners to locate bob and bring him home safely. Ive been held here for three and a half years. Reporter in 2011, this video of bob levinson emerged. The first and last sign he was still alive. Government, the levinson family, and the press kept to what meyer says is levinsons cover story, he was in iran investigating cigarette smuggling. We knew he was a consultant to the cia. We didnt know whether he was dead or alive. The story he gambling somebodys life over. Reporter that changed in 2013, the Associated Press and Washington Post decided to break the story that levinson was collecting information for the cia and that it sparked a scandal inside the agency. At some point, heads rolled. The explanation for why bobs handler and two other senior analysts were pushed out was that they had essentially run this rogue operation. Intelligence about iran. Bob levinson was not a u. S. Government employee when he went missing in iran. Reporter bobs family has pleaded with the u. S. Government to get him back. Theyve gone to congress. My family will never rest until my father is back with us. Reporter and levinsons son dan even traveled to iran to find him. Still, nothing. Nearly ten years on, the levinson family has no answers. Just theyre a family with no closure. They wake up every morning wondering whether something is going to happen thats going to resolve this case. Its been happening day after day after day, and they deserve much better. Reporter the fbi director stated in march that his agency was, quote, doing everything in our power to investigate all leads. Thank you, scott. This week, we follow the money and the trail of wasteful spending leads straight to the department of veterans affair. Lawmakers are criticizing the agency saying the va took artistic liberty on some very pricey purchases. The committee recently found that the paolo alto Healthcare System has spent 6. 3 million on art, on art and consulting services. The republican chair of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs fired up about the vas expensive taste at its california facility using your tax dollars. This includes an art installation on the side of a parking garage that displays quotes by Abraham Lincoln and it, in morse code that cost 285,000. It actually lights up. Also on the list, this stainless steel sculpture that cost taxpayers 365,000. All of the artwork that i have in the va Committee Room is art on loan from the department of defense. I dont have a problem with the art. Reporter but miller does have a problem with this 1. 3 million rock scu project. Art work he says comes the expense of wounded vets. The thing that bothers me most is va keeps saying they need more and more money, yet, theyre not willing to prioritize and use the money that they have for the appropriate thing. Ie, healthcare for the veterans. Reporter so as the va recovers from a scandal involving dozens of veterans who died waiting for care, its certainly those that control the purse swings, the congress of the united states, flexibility is the last thing that we need to be giving to the va. Reporter the va says it has developed a new approval policy that should be finalized within the next 90 days. Still ahead on full measure, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talks about early turn it off. I did. Credit karma huh . Yea, its free. That was easy. Newt gingrich was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1994 after helping republicans sweep that years congressional election. Hes back on the stage supporting another republican revolution, the president ial campaign of donald trump. Earlier this summer we spoke with him about the campaign and his book and documentary that touch on the First American revolution. When you take rediscovering god in america and walk around all the monuments and you start with washington who talks about the impor without its intervention we would not have won, you go to jefferson who says i have sworn eternal hostility over tyranny of the mind of man. Lincoln in the second inaugural is virtually a sermon and references god again and again and again. You begin to realize that despite every effort of the understand how deeply our key leaders felt that god was integral to the american spirit. If jefferson and adams went to william and mary and harvard, washington went to war. The First American is a documentary about George Washington based on my experience i bet a lot of schools pretty much present him as sort of an old guy in a couple of phrases. Your documentary seeks to do something entirely different. This is a guy o this is the father of our country. This is a man who we died they said was first in war, first in peace, and first in the heart of his countrymen. We decided to do the First American and were so fortunate. Robert lions is an actor who looks like a younger washington. We wanted to break away from the old man sitting as president at the end of his career because money. Thats right. We wanted to take him off the currency and give you the younger, aggressive, the best horseman in the colonies, a man of enormous physical strength, a wilderness character who in his early 20s was starting a world war in the west. Who has four bullet holes in his coat and two horses shot from under him. This is an action hero. And so the first amerin is our effort to recenter washington at the center of the American Experience and through the gingrich foundation, we hope to get it in every high school in the country and make it available for people who want to buy a copy and were currently shopping it to several networks. Well probably try to bring it up every single birthday for the next 20 years for people to see this is what america was built on. This kind of courage and work ethic and patriotism. Yes. They saw this as something different. They knew that when you read the declaration of independence and remember youre in a world of kings and emperors suddenly this says were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. Youre saying god skips the king and comes straight to every individual. Its an extraordinaryra document. They knew it was an experiment. The book was organized as a walking tour of the great monuments and tours in washington. Coming up on the next full measure, we go inside a u. S. Military building in afghanistan known as 64k. The special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction describes it as an unwanted and unnecessary construction project that wasted millions of u. S. Tax dollars. That story on the next full sharyl would have met your mother without a little luck. Specifically, the luck of the irish. St. Patricks day. The one day of the year when every young person in new york goes out and gets crazy. Really crazy. Okay, maybe not that crazy. But by 2008, wed all had enough. Well, most of us. laughing e barney stone . Oh, look, its the riddler. Thats not the riddler. Thats gumby. Hey, gumby, can we tie you in a knot later . Hey, nba player sidelined by a knee injury . All right, laugh all you want, but this is my lucky st. Pattys day suit. Yup, i have drycleaned many a stain off of this baby. You know why its lucky . cause its green, the color of go, as in lets. Uh, barney, we, uh. We talked this over, and, uh,
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