On June 11, 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that the APA "has seen a $7.5 million decrease in pharmaceutical industry dollars over the past year a more than 10% cut in revenue, which funds its research and education activities."
"The biggest changes at the APA have come at its money making annual meeting," the Journal said. "Over the past three years it has been phasing out industry sponsored symposia dinners and talks." This translated to a loss of $1.8 million to $1.9 million in industry funding between 2008 and 2009, an APA official told the Journal.
However, according to Martha Rosenberg's coverage of the group's annual meeting in a May 31, 2010, Scoop article, although 200 protestors were chanting "no drugging kids for money," and "no conflicts of interest," at the convention hall, "polarizing figures" were still present at this year's event.
For instance, she writes: "Sitting next to outgoing APA president Alan F. Schatzberg, MD, even as protestors chanted outside, was Charles Nemeroff, MD, former psychiatry chairman at Emory University who was investigated by Congress."
"And a paper presented about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was co-written by Harvard's Joseph Biederman, MD, also investigated by Congress for pharma financial links and considered the father of the pediatric bipolar disorder craze," she reports.
"Nemeroff was signing the Textbook of Psychopharmacology which he co-edited with Schatzberg, also investigated by Congress. Schatzberg, psychiatry chairman at Stanford, consults to seven drug companies, owns stock and patents with others and is on Sanofi-Aventis' Speakers Bureau according to the meeting's Daily Bulletin," she wrote.
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Last year, the National Alliance on Mental Illness became the first patient advocacy group to come under investigation by Grassley's Committee. In a letter to Michael Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of NAMI, in April 2009, Grassley asked for "an accounting of industry funding that pharmaceutical companies or foundations established by these companies have provided," to NAMI since January 2005.
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