Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16076

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Publication type: Journal Article

Tyrer P.
Responsibility for lack of psychopharmacological innovation — Author's reply
Lancet 2009 Jul 25; 374:(9686):290 - 291
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61362-3/fulltext

Abstract:

Angus Mackay and John Warren defend the regulators of drugs, and they themselves have played an important part in this process in the UK, but they cannot disclaim responsibility for the problems that Shorter writes about in his book.
Shorter’s hypothesis is that drug regulators have been lax and misguided in creating a framework that has been exploited by the marketing side of pharmaceutical companies at the expense of scientific innovation. Mackay and Warren’s assertion that “the pharmaceutical …