Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8913

Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.

Publication type: news

Larsson J.
Creating a market – long lines and ADHD drugs
Privately published blog 2007 Feb 28
http://jannel.se/kadesjo-lilly.pdf

Abstract:

Government agencies should be impartial and conduct their affairs with objectivity, for the good of citizens. Conflicts of interest should be handled. Different vested interests should not be allowed to direct the handling of the taxpayers’ money for their own profit.

The above rules are often adhered to – but definitely not by agencies having to do with psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies.

Below is an example from Sweden.

It is about creating a market for ADHD drugs. It is about a national agency (the National Board of Health and Welfare) transferring public funds to a psychiatric authority to invest in areas profitable for the pharmaceutical companies…