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                          Series Editor :        James Lindemann Nelson
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Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
PART      I      OVERVIEW
    1   The Good, the Bad, and the          Ugly:
2 An Ethical Framework 23
Index 349
A       great   many people have          assisted   me   in the research      and writing of this volume.
I   have tried to note         all   of them in specific endnotes, and apologize to anyone                   I
have missed.
    I   turned    at various   times to    Bob Goodman, Joel Lexchin, Peter Mansfield, Mike
Wilkes, Jeanne Lenzer,               and John Abramson for advice and assistance. I especially
value the support and counsel of Rick Bukata and Jerry Hoffman.                              My involvement
with their “Primary Care Medical Abstracts” courses aided                         me in identifying litera-
ture and shaped         my views on         the deleterious impact of pharmaceutical funding on
physician education.           Many colleagues         in the    Department of Family Practice and          in
the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State Univer-
sity,    supported and encouraged               my research.
    Anders Kelto served              as   my   student research assistant and assisted          me    with the
initial    stages of accumulating a computerized bibliography.                     Anders joined      me   and
my                     John Goddeeris and Andy Hogan in a research study of the
        faculty colleagues
financial aspects of the medicine-pharmaceutical interface. While this project did
not lead to the hoped-for publication,                    I   have made use of our findings       at several
would   like to   note that   completed work on this manuscript in July 2005. I
                              I   largely
continued to make small revisions into the early months of 2006; most of those
later revisions are so identified in the endnotes.
                                                                  *\
                    ABBREVIATIONS
EKG     electrocardiogram
FDA     Food and Drug Administration
FTC     Federal Trade Commission
GIST    gastrointestinal stromal tumor
GP      general practitioner
HCFA    Health Care Financing Administration [currently, Centers for Medi-
        care and Medicaid Services       (CMS)]
HHS     [U.S.   Department    of]   Health and   Human   Services
HIPAA   Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIV     human immunodeficiency virus
HMO     health maintenance organization
HRG     [Public Citizen] Health Research         Group
IBS     irritable   bowel syndrome
ICU     intensive care unit
IND                   new drug
        investigational
MADD    Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
MECC    medical education and communications company
MIT     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NCI     National Cancer Institute
NHLBI   National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
NIH     National Institutes of Health
NIPD    National Institute of Pharmaceutical Development [hypothetical]
NSAID   nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
OIG     Office of the Inspector General
PBM     pharmacy benefit manager
PDA     persona] digital assistant
PDUFA   Prescription   Drug User Fee Act
PhRMA   Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
R&D     research and development
SLAPP   strategic lawsuit against public participation
SMO     site-management organization                                ^
SSRI    selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors
TRIPS   trade-related intellectual property agreement
UCLA    University of California at Los Angeles
UCSF    University of California at San Francisco
USDA    United States Department of Agriculture
VA      Veterans Administration
VIGOR   Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research
WHO     World Health Organization
WTO     World Trade Organization
                                 Introduction
THETIPPING POINT
Tom       and Ray Magliozzi, the Car Talk guys on National Public Radio, couldn’t
stop laughing as they described the poetic justice that once befell one of their ac-
           The fellow was driving home from work during the wee hours of the
quaintances.
morning when he passed an unguarded construction site. Right next to the street
stood a pile of brand-new, four-by-eight-foot sheets of half-inch plywood exactly  —
what he needed for a home remodeling project. He decided upon what the old
Army veterans used to call a “midnight requisition,” and piled a dozen sheets of
plywood on the top of his car. This being a spur-of-the-moment larceny, he had no
                                                                             —
rope to tie down the load. But he reasoned that if he drove slowly he was only a
                            —
few blocks from his house nothing would happen. Hardly any other cars were on
the road that late. The pile of wood seemed to weigh a ton; it wouldn’t be going
anywhere.
   Allwent well until the one other car on the road at that hour cut suddenly in
front ofhim at an intersection. He touched the brakes as gently as he could. As
the Magliozzi brothers described it between guffaws, he then saw events occur-
ring through his windshield as if in special-effects slow motion. Each sheet of
plywood slid forward, one at a time, and landed in the street in front of his car.
As each sheet slid forward, it took with it some portion of the automobile the         —
grill,   the headlights, the front fenders, the hood. Finally he contemplated a pile
of plywood and most of the front end of his car lying in the middle of the inter-
           1.
section.
  The plywood had reached what Malcolm Gladwell calls “the tipping point .” 2
The tipping point is a common feature of social change. Before one reaches the
tipping point, it appears that the social system is firmly stuck where it is. Perhaps
people have for years tried to reform or alter    it,   but   its   inertia has frustrated   all
their efforts. Suddenly,    once the tipping point   is   reached, the very inertia that
2                                                                                        INTRODUCTION
previously frustrated change                  now pushes        the change forward         more   rapidly,   and
more       powerfully, than anyone could have guessed.
      Another feature of the tipping point is that it appears at first glance to be an
event of little consequence             —
                                no different than all the other tiny shoves that people
have been applying to the stuck system for a long time without                               visible result. It
follows that at the       moment      one would hardly ever be correct in claiming
                                         it   occurs,
that the tipping point had been reached. (Any more than the Magliozzi brothers’
acquaintance could have been able to guess in advance what exactly was going to
happen when he put his foot on the brake.) Only in hindsight would one as a rule
be confident in identifying the tipping point.
  What does all this have to do with the medical profession and the pharmaceuti-
cal industry?
      A   tipping point of sorts        may have occurred           in the spring of 2004.    The event      that
later history     might pick out from            all   that   happened was a     legal action filed   by the   at-
claiming fraud. Those suits were mostly based on the allegation that the firms were
overcharging the state Medicaid systems for their drugs by manipulating the pricing
structure. The firms were supposed to charge Medicaid the lowest price they
charged any customer, but companies had found a variety of ways to hide the fact
that they had charged some favored buyers less than they were charging Medicaid.
      But the   New York fraud charges were quite                   different. Spitzer alleged that Glaxo-
SmithKline had deliberately concealed the results of four research studies of the
antidepressant drug Paxil   when used in children and adolescents. These four studies
all showed that the drug either did not work well or that it caused harm. By contrast,
a fifth study was interpreted to show that Paxil was helpful in treating childhood de-
pression. 3 The firm rapidly published and then gave considerable publicity to the
fifth study, while doing its best to conceal from the medical community the contrary
tion over the regulation of drugs in the United States. But the Journal’s editorial
missed part of the point. By filing a more or less unprecedented action on behalf
of the state, Spitzer was effectively making a claim about the FDA. He was accus-
ing the FDA of having been sufficiently captured by the pharmaceutical industry
so as no longer to be capable of protecting the citizens from potentially ineffective
or unsafe drugs. He was claiming that the citizens of New York had no recourse
other than to take matters into their                   own    hands.
THE TIPPING POINT                                                                                           3
      At about the same time that Spitzer        filed his lawsuit, journalist          Shannon Brown-
                          Washington Monthly with the subtitle, “Why You Can’t
lee wrote an article for the
Trust Medical Journals Anymore.” Her target was less the pharmaceutical industry
that financed studies like the Paxil trials than the physician-investigators                      who   con-
ducted the studies and then willingly did the bidding of the industry in the way
                                                  Brownlees choice of a subtitle
that they reported, or failed to report, the results.
carried with     it     an important message. In previous years, a vocal minority of physi-
cians    and   scientists    had warned ominously (though             to   little   practical effect) that
the medical literature was becoming seriously biased as a result of manipulation by
the industry. Brownlee          may have been one    of the   first   laypeople to grasp fully what
this   meant   for the public health     —   to fully understand the implications of the                pub-
lic   water hole of scientific information becoming polluted. 5
   Brownlee also chose to frame her dismay in terms of trust. As a journalist, she
was familiar with the idea of professional ethics. If she wrote an article praising a
drug and did not disclose either to the editor or to the readers that she was in the
pay of the drug company, she expected certain consequences to follow that would
be deleterious to her future career. She could not understand how respected aca-
demic physicians could participate in what appeared to be the same sort of behav-
ior, yet be allowed to go on about their business as if nothing had happened. You
physicians, she seemed to be saying, were supposed to have taken an oath to pro-
tect our health. We trusted you. And now you have betrayed our trust.
   In the wake of the New York lawsuit, a number of events occurred. Many major
U.S. newspapers wrote editorials strongly condemnatory of the pharmaceutical
industry, and calling for new legislation to require the publishing of research re-
                                 6
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