financial ties between DSM and big pharma

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http://textedu.com/f2/download/financial-ties-between-dsm-iv-panel-members-and-the-pharmaceutical.pdf

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this link was broken, here is the new link

 

http://www.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/PDF/DSM%20COI.PDF

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Thank you for this link.

 

The DSM is truly a work of fiction. The more information such as this is put "out there" the sooner there will be a stop to all this insanity.

 

 

 

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Yes, it is driven by greed. 100 percent of the panel members had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies who worked on the panels for schizophrenia, and mood disorders. An 81 percent of the members working on the anxiety disorders had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies.

 

On the other hand, the work panels for Substance-Related Disorders had only 16% of members with ties to pharmaceutical companies.

 

In other words, the financial  connections are especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders.