DSM V

So I've been doing a little research lately and thought I would share it with all of you. I'm no expert, so some of my research could definitely be off, but I'll try to provide everything I have here so that you can look for yourselves if you are interested.

First I would recommend starting with this article to familiarize yourself with what is going on: It is titled A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists It is written by Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001190

From this article, I decided to look at the members of the DSM V task force and their affiliations. You can find the list of members here:
http://www.dsm5.org/MeetUs/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dsm5.org%2fMeetUs%2fDocuments%2fTask%20Force%202011&FolderCTID=0x012000F863AB7851692346B87EEF074E1BC38D
Note: They only list the places they were affiliated with, not the financial amounts. It is possible that they could have been paid in excess in the few years prior to joining the DSM V task force.

I then decided to see how many of the members were associated with different interest groups/companies/non profit organizations, (Sorry for the format which it's listed, Copy and paste from Excel doesn't work too good, and I'm too lazy to upload it to some site.)

Commercial or Other Organizations

Abbott Laboratories 5
Academy for Eating Disorders 1
Agilent/Amgen 1
Alamo Pharmaceuticals 1
Alkermes 1
Alkermes/Cephalonn 1
Alphapharm 1
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry 3
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 1
American Psychiatric Association 6
American Psychiatric Foundation 1
APIRE 1
Apotex 1
Archives of Sexual behavior 1
Association Francais des Troubles Anxieux and Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals 1
AstraZeneca 4
Atrix Laboratories 1
Autism Speaks 1
Banner Health 1
Baxter 1
Berlex 1
Best Practices 3
Bial Symposium 1
Body Media Inc 1
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation 1
Boston Scientific 1
Bristol Myers Squibb 4
British Medical Journal 1
Camel Hill Foundation 1
Cardinal Associates 1
Cardinal Health 1
Carlet, Garrison, Kein, Zaretsky 1
Centron (Solvay/Wyeth) 1
Cephalon Inc. 1
Collegium International Psychopharmacologicum 1
Complete Health Care Communications 1
Corcept Inc 1
Current Psychiatry 1
Deborah Wood & Assoc. 1
E | Dupont 1
Eli Lilly and company 14
Embera 1
European Regional Patent No: 1487998 1
Fidelity Biosciences 1
Fireman's Fund 1
Forest Laboratories Inc 5
Foundation for the advancement of Education in Science 1
Foundation for the National Institute of Health 1
General Electric 1
Gerson Lehrman Council of Advisors 1
Gilead 1
GlaxoSmithKline Inc 6
Guilford Press 1
Gurze Books 1
Health Learning Systems 1
Heinz C. Prechter Fund for Manic Depression 1
Hoffman LaRoche 1
Hythiam 1
Innovative Medical Education 2
Innovus Inc 1
Janssen Pharmaceutical 5
Jazz Pharmaceuticals 1
JK Associates 1
John D. Hartford Foundation 1
Johnson & Johnson 5
Joslin Diabetes Center 1
Lundbeck 2
Magellan Healthcare 1
McNeil Consumer and Speciality Pharmaceutical 3
Mediummune 1
Merck & Co. 4
Merck manual 2
Montgomery County Government 2
National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH 1
Neurion 1
Night Lotus Video 1
NIMH 1
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. 4
Omnicare 1
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical 1
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals 1
Oxford University Press 1
Peabody Arnold 1
Pfizer Inc 10
Pharmedia Communications 1
Phillips Lytle LLP 1
Physicians Post Grad Press 1
Podvey Sachs 1
Praxair 1
Prescott Communications 1
Pro Neura Technology 1
Purdue Frederick Company 1
Reckitt 1
Saatchi and Saatchi 1
Sage Publications 1
Samsung 1
Sandofi-Aventis 1
SCS Health Care 1
Seaside Therapeutics 1
Sepracor 1
Servier Amerique 1
Shering AG/Shering AP/Shering Plough 5
Slack Inc. 1
Smithkline Beecham 1
Solvay Pharmaceuticals/Solvay Wyeth 3
Teva Pharmaceuticals 1
Transcept Pharmaceuticals 1
Trichotillomania Learning Center 1
UCB Pharma 1
United Behavioral Health 1
UpToDate 1
US World Meds 1
Warner Chilcott 1
Wyeth 4
Zimmer Holdings 1

Non Profit or Agency Organizations

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine 1
ACNP 1
Active Minds 1
Alzheimer's Study Group 1
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1
American Association of Practicing Psychiatrists 2
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1
American College of Psychiatrists 2
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 4
American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education 1
American Psychiatric Publishing 1
American Psychological Association 1
American Psychosomatic Society 1
American Society of Hispanic Psychiatrists 1
Annual Reviews 1
Anxiety Disorders Association of America 2
Association for Research on Personality Disorders 1
Association for the Accrediaation of Human Research Protection 1
Berman Center 1
Biomed Central 1
Community Care Behavioral Health Organization 1
Dana Foundation 1
DBSA 6
Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society 1
Eating Disorders Research Society 1
Fondazione IDEA, Italy 1
International Association for Women's Mental Health 1
International College of Geriatric Psychopharmacology 1
JED Foundation 1
MDDA RI, DBSA state chapter 1
Mental Health Consumer Advocates of RI 1
NAMI 4
NARSAD 4
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder 1
National Foundation for Mental Health 1
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Information Service 1
North American Society for Psychological Obstetrics and Gynecology 1
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation 1
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene 1
Sleep Research Society 1
Society of Behavioral medicine 1
Society of Biological Psychiatry 1
Sunbelt Collaborative 1
Treatment Research institute 1



From there, I decided to look at the ones that were most common and figure out what they were known for/why they would be of interest to a psychiatrist (basically, what drugs did they come up with)

Common Interest Companies and their medication affiliations

Abbott Laboratories -Depakote
Bristol Myers Squibb -Abilify
AstraZeneca -Seroquel
Eli Lilly and company -Cymbalta, Prozac, Strattera, Symbyax, Zyprexa
Forest Laboratories Inc -Celexa, Lexapro, Viibryd
GlaxoSmithKline Incc-Dexadrine, Lamictal, Paxil, Wellbutrin
Janssen Pharmaceuticalc-Haldol, Risperdal
Johnson & Johnson -Owner of: Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. Janssen Pharmaceutical, McNeil Consumer and Specialty Pharmaceutical
Merck & Co./ it's subsidiary Shering AG/Shering AP -Saphris
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. -Anafranil, Fanapt, Focalin, Maprotiline, Melleril, Ritalin, Tegretol, Tofranil, Trileptil
Pfizer Inc -Ativan, Geodon, Neurontin, Xanax, Zoloft
Shering AG/Shering AP -a subsidiary of Merck, Remeron
Solvay Pharmaceuticals/Solvay Wyeth -Bifeprunox-a promising drug for schizophrenia that did not meet FDA approval in 2007
Wyeth -became part of pfizer in 2009; ativan, effexor, pristiq,



Then I attempted to look how influenced the non profits were by these pharmaceutical companies:

Common Non Profit Groups and their Pharmaceutical Corporate Sponsors

DBSA -Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Astrazeneca, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Pfizer
http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=donate_community_partners

NAMI-Astrazeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer,
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Major_Foundation_and_Corporate_Support
(I had difficulty working through the NAMI site, it seemed very unstable, and pages would occasionally crash if I minimized my window? It was odd.)

I also tried to look up NARSAD, but couldn't really find anything. If anyone else has information on their corporate sponsors I would be very interested.


So in conclusion (If my numbers are correct): 14/30 (46.66%) task force members had ties to Eli Lilly who creates Cymbalta, Prozac, Strattera, Symbyax, and. Zyprexa.

10/30 (33%) Had ties to Pfizer who creates Ativan, Geodon, Neurontin, Xanax, Zoloft and it's new subsidiary Wyeth, creates effexor and pristiq.

Not to mention that the most commonly associated pharmaceutical companies are also linked with the most common non profit organizations which the task force members had some kind of affiliation with.

Draw your own conclusions.


Also if you're interested in an essay on the DSM IV financial ties there is an article here:
http://www.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/PDF/DSM%20COI.PDF

The American Psychiatric Association publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is widely called the “label bible” of psychiatry. They are currently engaged in a revision from DSM IV to DSM 5. APA plans to publish in 2013.

http://dsm5sucks.com/

Cheze2 wrote:So in conclusion (If my numbers are correct): 14/30 (46.66%) task force members had ties to Eli Lilly who creates Cymbalta, Prozac, Strattera, Symbyax, and. Zyprexa.

10/30 (33%) Had ties to Pfizer who creates Ativan, Geodon, Neurontin, Xanax, Zoloft and it's new subsidiary Wyeth, creates effexor and pristiq.

Not to mention that the most commonly associated pharmaceutical companies are also linked with the most common non profit organizations which the task force members had some kind of affiliation with.

Draw your own conclusions.

My conclusion is that so many links are not proff that big pharma is full of corruption, but if there was a hell of a lot of corruption, they'd definately need that many links!!!

Profit is part of our amazing health care system. I wish I could see the positive side to big pharma getting richer. Maybe I could become friends with a CEO of Eli Lilly?