Senator Charles Grassley: American Psychiatric Association open your books!
While taking a look at my stats the last 24 hours many google searches were coming in with 'Grassley and the APA'. I took a look at the Pharmalot blog, and sure enough Senator Grassley has asked questions of the APA and the following email was sent as a result to the APA members (American Psychiatric Association) notifying members of the request of complete accounting of APA revenues.
"Date: 07/11/2008 11:07AM
Subject: Message from APA Leadership
Fellow Members of the APA:
The APA Office has just received a letter from Senator Grassley of Iowa, requesting a complete accounting of APA revenues, except those from advertising in our journals, from pharmaceutical companies, starting in 2003. We will, of course, provide this information, which had already been available to our members."( read more of the email at -Pharmalot)
The story is in The New York Times:Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties.
"The association is the voice of establishment psychiatry, publishing the field’s major journals and its standard diagnostic manual.
“I have come to understand that money from the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of nonprofit organizations that purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions,” Mr. Grassley said Thursday in a letter to the association." -NYTimes
Read some of the timeline regarding Senator Grassley's probe into the entire psychiatric system, money laundering, etc below.
Senator Charles Grassley: science vs.integrity: we want answers.
"It is time to have this happen in the U.S.A. and Senator Charles Grassley, in my opinion could give us all the answers we need, but most importantly he can quite possibly force truth back into a system that has lost faith from consumers, lost integrity and most importantly has become subject to an industry's marketing grasp that has placed innocent people in harms way."-Stephany, soulful sepulcher blog.
Tyrannical Forces:Deadly lies: Paxil/Seroxat data: Senator Charles Grassley & Mass General: it is time for answers.
1999- 2008: OCD: ADHD: Childhood Bipolar Disorder:Tyrannical Forces: Biederman fails to report pharma income.
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An anonymous commenter"Izzy", left a comment at this post on the Carlat Blog.(then posted the email from the APA, signed Nada Stotland, M.D., MPH
APA President
Comment left on July 11, 2008 9:36 PM
"Here is what I received from the A.P.A. this morning. Along with having a signer of the Declaration of Independence on our logo, we can now boast of being the first medical society in the U.S. to be the subject of a Senate investigation. It is unfortunate that, for Dr. Stotland, it is the "public focus" on our relationships with pharma that is the challenge for medicine, not the nature of the relationships themselves.
-Izzy-commenter at The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, authored by Dr.Daniel Carlat
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More on this story:
Furious Seasons:Senate Investigating Pharma Funding Of American Psychiatric Association.
Contact Senator Charles Grassley here.
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