Friday, April 21, 2006

Psychiatrists links to Big Pharma - all in the mind?

The doctors who recommended diagnostic standards for the nation's leading psychiatric manual (DSM) had numerous undisclosed financial ties to Big Pharma, which may have unfairly encouraged the use of prescription medicines to treat such widespread mental illnesses as depression and schizophrenia.

Who says?

A study and paper reported by the NJ Star-Ledger (Insiders' fave newspaper)! Thats who!

Not so says the American Psychiatric Association!

"An official of the APA dismissed the study as "innuendo."

"It's not a scientific paper," said Darrel Regier, the APA's research director, who noted the organization instituted a financial disclosure policy about six years ago and so was unaware who had financial ties when the doctors met in 1994 to set diagnostic standards. "

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