May 5, 2006

Study Says 'DSM'  Lacks Transparency

By AMY RAINEY

More than half of the experts who prepared the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, an influential guide in the psychiatric field, have undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, a study has found.

Of the 170 experts who contributed to the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's manual, almost all of whom are academics, 56 percent had financial associations with drug companies. Every member of the work groups that focused on mood

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