"Mr. Stanley says he has donated nearly $300 million — including about $35 million in 2005 — to Dr. Torrey’s efforts, the bulk of it for research at universities and start-up drug companies."
"After another four months or so on antidepressants, bringing me to a total of 10 months between the steroids and antidepressants, I was suddenly flipped into this hypomania."
By denigrading all non-chemical interventions, by focusing narrowly on drugs and drugs alone, psychiatry has signed away its profession status.
"This is a critical moment: if the system of peer-review is not any longer able to guarantee the reliability of scientific research, this means that science has lost its way."
IOM committee members were highly critical of FDA’s advisory panels that regularly “recommend” approval without analyzing the safety data.
“Science has become so severely politicized that one has to be skeptical of nearly every research result that is reported.”
A critical examination of meta-analysis studies by John H. Noble, Jr, Ph.D, AHRP Treasurer
"The subpoena shows that the government is investigating Guidant for possible violations of health care statutes
"32% of the advertisements [in peer reviewed journals] misled readers regarding efficacy, 40% did not provide balanced descriptions of the side effects, and 44% could lead to improper prescribing if the physician did not use other sources of information regarding the drug."
"Now they are terrified that their crimes of commission and omission could reap them the same whirlwind harvest of accountability."
We are, however, very distressed at what appears to us to be a significant discrepancy between your statements and the reality of SAMHSA’s role in implementing the NFC report recommendations, as well as other discrepancies between your statements and SAMHSA’s actions.
Correction! A panel calling itself the Institute of Medicine as a Profession (IMP) is calling for a ban on the intermingling of industry and academic scholars and physicians. This is NOT affiliated with the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
