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Dude, check this out

Taurel is resigning. The he is being replaced by Lechleiter, who started as an organic chemist.

http://newsroom.lilly.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=282264

I believe there's only one pharma company that still claims to be U.S. based (Merck)

If by "claims to be U.S. based" you mean "has their world headquarters in the U.S.", I believe you're wrong - there are also Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Pfizer, for example.

(Your other claims seem a bit bogus as well. Am I just responding to a troll here?)

Here's a document containing all the information you'd like about the maker of prozac. As you can see, the margins are actually higher than 18% for that company, they're closer to 20%(2 billion dollars profit on 10 billion dollars net sales). Considering the markets in the states, I doubt it's a mistake to think that other leading drug companies are comperable.

Actually, I did some research here, and it turns out that both marketing and production dwarf R&D, at least for this company, the maker of Prozac.

Eli Lilly and Co., the maker of Prozac, the most proscribed anti-depression drug on the market, has earned 10,213.6 Million USD in the past 9 months. The cost of those sales was 2,358.2 Million USD. Research and Development cost 1,975.6 Million USD.

Marketing and adminstrative cost 3,186.0 Million USD.

In other words, you're absolutely right. Other companies would probably show the same result.

Source

• Up until recently, Mitch Daniels (former LLY VP for Corporate Strategy) was Dubya's Director of the Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
• Current LLY CEO Sidney Taurel sits on the president's "Homeland Security Advisory Panel"

Even the images on their homepage were snapped by CCTV...

This non-stimulant based drug you speak of is called Straterra and is produced by Eli Lilly.

My doctor suggested it to me for focus issues and it make me feel like a corporate drone...must...work. I hated it decided coffee in high doses was a much better solution for avoiding my work.

I have seen the Register article before but had trouble believing it. It's such a blatant conflict of interest. Do lives not matter anymore? Does Bill Gates not know where to draw the line in his conquest?

Fire up a Bloomberg search for top officers in Worldcom, Enron, Microsoft, and other big rollers if you really want to lose all faith.

Lilly makes a product called Humatrope that's essentially a genetically-engineered analog to HGH. Their product site has some decent info on the conditions it's intended to treat, most of which applies to HGH as well.