Pharma Influence Still STRONG at APA Psychiatric Meeting

Ann Childress, MD, gave a veritable commercial for the ADHD drug Vyvanse, manufactured by Shire on whose Speaker's Bureau she serves. And the Wyeth funded C. Neill Epperson, MD, appearing with Wyeth Speakers Bureau member Claudio Soares, MD, actually told a clinician not to trust a pharmacist for a hormone preparation but to use pharma's drugs in a symposium called "Mood, Memory and Myths: What Really Happens at Menopause."