Study Finds Financial Ties Between Drug Makers And Psychiatrists

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The New York Times ran an article citing research that found that

"95 - or 56 percent - of 170 experts who worked on the 1994 edition of the manual, called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or D.S.M, had at least one monetary relationship with a drug maker in the years from 1989 to 2004. . . . The percentage was higher - 100 percent in some cases - for experts who worked on sections of the manual devoted to severe mental illnesses, like schizophrenia, the study found."

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