TMAP - Texas Medication Algorithm Project (algorithm - guideline) was
created by various pharmaceutical companies working in concert.
These companies recommended and helped implement a scam where Texas
was to pay for the most expensive new antipsychotics, Abilify, Geodon,
Risperdal, Seroqul and Zyprexa over the older cheaper antipsychotics.
The TMAP scam was exported to many other states.

A 2005 study by the federal government's National Institute of Mental
Health showed that these new antipsychotic drugs, which cost roughly
10 times more than the older drugs, performed no better and had just
as many side effects.

The below Texas article describes how CMAP - The Child version of TMAP
has been suspended over fears that government Medicaid programs have
been influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

Letters to the editor here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi

The Dallas Morning News
MEDICATION PROTOCOL
August 18, 2008
By EMILY RAMSHAW