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| CARLWATTSARTIST.COM Lakeland Ledger Senator Grassley Questions NAMI |
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NAMI does in fact promote specific drugs - see here: http://www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2006/12/nami_touts_new_atypical.html
Contributed by Robin Adams
April 20, 2009
The National Alliance on Mental Illness is under scrutiny from U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who
targets drug companies' influence on medical practice.
Bloomberg News reported this month that Grassley asked NAMI - a nonprofit mental-health advocacy group that
provides a lot of local education, training and support for patients and families affected by mental illness - to disclose
any financial backing from drug companies or foundations the companies create. Previously, his attention has been
focused on psychiatrists and other physicians who prescribe anti psychotic drugs.
Some doctors have drawn criticism for writing about and researching drugs for companies that pay them consulting
fees, particularly if they don't disclose the connection when publishing or speaking to other doctors.
Medical groups are taking steps to either distance themselves from pharmaceutical companies or be more transparent
about connections.
There's a difference between those situations and an advocacy group like NAMI.
NAMI provides support and education. It doesn't promote specific drugs, said Cathy Hatch, executive director for NAMI
Polk.
It tells people with mental illnesses to follow their physicians' advice and not to discontinue prescribed drugs without
checking with their doctors.
Pharmaceutical groups do provide some funding for NAMI educational programs. I've seen agendas or brochures thank
them for being corporate sponsors. Online information for exhibitors at NAMI's upcoming July national convention lists
pharmaceutical companies along with health facilities, treatment providers, insurance companies and others among
those who can exhibit there.
But Polk County's Hatch feels the group has sufficient guidelines to avoid conflict of interest.
"Why shouldn't drug-company money go full circle and come back to help the patients who take them?" Hatch asked.
Photos can be found here: http://www.namipharma.org/photos-1.html
Eli Lilly contributions to NAMI: https://www.lillygrantoffice.com/grant_registry.jsp
AstraZeneca contributions to NAMI: http://www.astrazeneca-us.com/search/?itemId=4920534
Bloomberg story here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a4V6UEpXf_mY&refer=home
Mother Jones story here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/11/prozacorg
See related issues
For resources to take action on various situations in the world today see my page Thomas Jefferson
For a fun way to perhaps make some difference in the world see my page SAVE the WORLD!
NAMI does in fact promote specific drugs - see here: http://www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2006/12/nami_touts_new_atypical.html
Contributed by Robin Adams
April 20, 2009
The National Alliance on Mental Illness is under scrutiny from U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who
targets drug companies' influence on medical practice.
Bloomberg News reported this month that Grassley asked NAMI - a nonprofit mental-health advocacy group that
provides a lot of local education, training and support for patients and families affected by mental illness - to disclose
any financial backing from drug companies or foundations the companies create. Previously, his attention has been
focused on psychiatrists and other physicians who prescribe anti psychotic drugs.
Some doctors have drawn criticism for writing about and researching drugs for companies that pay them consulting
fees, particularly if they don't disclose the connection when publishing or speaking to other doctors.
Medical groups are taking steps to either distance themselves from pharmaceutical companies or be more transparent
about connections.
There's a difference between those situations and an advocacy group like NAMI.
NAMI provides support and education. It doesn't promote specific drugs, said Cathy Hatch, executive director for NAMI
Polk.
It tells people with mental illnesses to follow their physicians' advice and not to discontinue prescribed drugs without
checking with their doctors.
Pharmaceutical groups do provide some funding for NAMI educational programs. I've seen agendas or brochures thank
them for being corporate sponsors. Online information for exhibitors at NAMI's upcoming July national convention lists
pharmaceutical companies along with health facilities, treatment providers, insurance companies and others among
those who can exhibit there.
But Polk County's Hatch feels the group has sufficient guidelines to avoid conflict of interest.
"Why shouldn't drug-company money go full circle and come back to help the patients who take them?" Hatch asked.
Photos can be found here: http://www.namipharma.org/photos-1.html
Eli Lilly contributions to NAMI: https://www.lillygrantoffice.com/grant_registry.jsp
AstraZeneca contributions to NAMI: http://www.astrazeneca-us.com/search/?itemId=4920534
Bloomberg story here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a4V6UEpXf_mY&refer=home
Mother Jones story here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/11/prozacorg
See related issues
- Depression Test Puts Kids' Health at Risk. Got kids, you must see this!
- Harvard Medical Students Rebel Against Big Pharma Ties.
- "Fox, Douglas Kennedy, Lilly pays $1.42 billion in Zyprexa suit".
- Alzheimer's drugs double death risk in elderly
- The "Business" of Drugs: Not to be outdone by Eli Lilly, Pfizer raises the Settlement Bar on Criminal Off Label Marketing of Drugs to $2.3 Billion
- The "Business" of Drugs: Pfizer may be hit with another $153 million in potential legal fines for Medicaid fraud
- The "Business" of Drugs: Seroquel's Falsified Studies Exposed
- The "Business" of Drugs: Pharmaceutical "Cocktails" Found in Fish Near Major U.S. Cities
- The "Business" of Drugs: What it takes to spur the FDA into ACTION
- WINHS UPDATE: The European Court of Justice, Following EU Food Supplements Directive Mandates, Takes on Food Supplement Health
Claims - CANADIAN FOOD SUPPLEMENTS ALERT: Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act Bill C-6 Launched
- WINHS ALERT: POWDERED BABY FORMULA WARNING
- Conflicts for FDA committee set to weigh risks of Seroquel
- Firms Tied to some MDs who set Policy Treatment Advice Focuses on Drugs
- FDA Demands Pharma Stops 'Misleading' Ads on Google, Yahoo
- Grassley Probes Financing of Advocacy Group for Mental Health.
- Psychiatry's Prescription For Violence.
- Clarification of Codex and its predicted influence and impact on the natural health industry in non-European Union countries
For resources to take action on various situations in the world today see my page Thomas Jefferson
For a fun way to perhaps make some difference in the world see my page SAVE the WORLD!
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