Pharma-funded front groups masquerading as “patient advocates”.
These groups are not what they appear to be. Yet their influence over legislation, lobbying, drug regulation (or lack thereof), and public relations campaigns is substantial and can seriously impact society.
Big Pharma has aggregated and sometimes co-opted patients into lobbying groups for high-priced drugs.
These are groups operating under the guise of advocates for the “mentally ill,” which in reality are heavily funded psychiatric-pharmaceutical front groups—lobbying and working on state and federal laws which effect the entire nation—from our elderly in nursing homes to our military, pregnant women, etc.
The pharmaceutically funded “patient’s rights group” CHADD (CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ADHD), received $1.2 million in pharmaceutical funding in 2008 alone…
Find out more about pharma-funded "compassionate" patient advocacy groups and how many of them are in operation right now here : https://www.cchrint.org/issues..../psycho-pharmaceutic

and here: https://www.cchrint.org/2020/0....8/17/psycho-pharma-f