List: APA-DSM-IV_ DSM-IV- TR TASK FORCE
APA "Diagnostic Statistical Manual" Task Force has been shown to have financial relationships with drug manufacturers.
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Conflicts of interest: psychiatry’s diagnostic manual DSM-III_DSM-IV
Dr. Robert Spitzer, who has continued to play a central role in DSM revisions since 1980, claim he does not think a conflict of interest exists.
See list of APA Task Force on DSM-IV and DSM-IV Revised Text at: https://ahrp.stagenoises.ch/cms/content/view/145/27/
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Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual Under Drug Industry Influence
The undisclosed financial relationships between drug manufacturers and psychiatry’s leading "authorities" who determine what constitutes a “mental disorder” have been exposed.
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Pharma company Influence Medical Education Promotes OffLabel Use of Antipsychotic
Psychiatry’s professional practice paradigm has received a major blow.
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When Trust in Doctors Erodes
"Soon, intuition and the personal experience of friends and family may seem as trustworthy as advice from a doctor in diagnosing an illness or judging a treatment."
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Doctors Back Ban on Gifts From Drug Makers_Journal Hypocrisy
"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."
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Panel Urges Academia to BAN Drug Marketing
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)
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STOP the Mental Health-Child Psychiatry Industry From Diverting Public Funds
Internal e-mail exhorts university staff to lobby Congress for increased funds to increase number of children declared mentally ill.
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ACNP Task Force Ties to Pharma
Authors of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Task Force on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth: their known ties to the pharmaceutical industry
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Unhealthy Medicine-Wash Post_Drug Profits Infect Medical Studies–LA Times
”SO WHY,” he asks, “DID American doctors prescribe $7 billion worth of Vioxx after Merck and the Food and Drug Administration knew all this?”
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Surgery Journal to Ban Authors Who Fail to Disclose Conflicts of Interest
"With conflicts of interest increasingly casting doubt on the credibility of medical research, a leading surgery journal is cracking down on authors who fail to disclose links to industry, threatening to temporarily blacklist them."
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FDA SSRI Warning
" A causal role for antidepressants in inducing suicidality has been established in pediatric patients."