New paper alert! 🎉 Researchers used #Opioid #Archive documents as they examined how terms generated or redefined by industry (like “opiophobia,” “pseudoaddiction,” “breakthrough pain” and “pain is the 5th vital sign”) helped to create a framework for promoting opioids. doi.org/10.1017/jme....
📚 New Paper Alert!
How did language shape the #opioid crisis? Drawing on internal #industrydocuments, authors examine how pharma industry-driven terms like #pseudoaddiction and “pain as the 5th vital sign” helped build a framework that promoted opioid use.
#Archives #OIDA
doi.org/10.1017/jme....
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Five matches upright, each more burnt than the last. Conveys how tobacco and nicotine use are progressively harmful. "Tobacco. It's About A Billion Lives Worldwide. UCSF's Annual Tobacco Symposium.” Friday, April 17, 2026 Register now!
"It’s About a Billion Lives Symposium" is Friday, April 17. Co-hosts: The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, the Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, & the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. UCSF Mission Bay campus. billion-lives-2026.eventbrite.com #TobaccoResearch
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Flyer advertising The Opioid Industry Documents Archive National Symposium, May 12-14, 2026, with sessions on Health Journalism, Law and Policy, Archives and Artificial Intelligence, and Histories and Stories from the Archive and the Field.
Announcing our upcoming #Opioid #Archive National Symposium, Tues, May 12 – Thurs, May 14! Check out the lineup of speakers on topics including #HealthJournalism #HealthPolicy #Epidemiology #DataScience #Archives #AI #HistMed #HarmReduction #LivedExperience oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-nationa...
New Mallinckrodt guide: Explore the company's involvement with Pain-Topics.org, a website positioned as an independent patient resource: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/more...
New Pharmacy Benefit Manager collection guide: Review tactics used by PBMs that maximized opioid sales, while circumventing safeguards: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/more...
We also posted some new guides in March. Learn how Endo planned for a possible public relations crisis surrounding non-medical use of Opana ER: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/more...
The #Opioid #Archive now has more than 7 million documents! Our latest deposit in the Endo collection (now at 1.9 million docs) pushed us over that milestone. Check them out here: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docu...
Another great webinar from the Georgetown University Health & the Public Interest Program, this time with Rick Mountcastle on “How Institutional Corruption Turbocharged the Opioid Crisis.” Check out #Opioid #Archive documents for more insight into opioid litigation. youtu.be/fvy7bkz09Qw?...
We enjoyed #Opioid #Archive advisory committee member @jennoliva.bsky.social’s presentation on "The New Drug War." Good mentions of #industry #documents and topics raised in the Archive, such as opioid marketing, prescription drug monitoring programs, and buprenorphine: youtu.be/5HtHVSTDQM4?...
Want to learn what's in our new paper in the @nejm.org in under 30 seconds? Check out our infographic which highlights how the fossil fuel, chemical, and ultra processed food industries are harming health and how corporations hide the truth about the harms of their products.
Powerful paper @c2ech.bsky.social! Analyzing internal industry documents provides firsthand evidence of what companies knew, when they knew it, and how they worked to delay or weaken regulations. Understanding these “commercial determinants of health” is critical to protecting public health. 👏
New from Oxysuisse’s Transparency and Truth project: The Tobacco Industry Targets Young People. This series uses #tobaccoindustry docs to analyze the evolution of the industry’s advertising tactics & the reasons why youth are particularly vulnerable targets.
transparencyandtruth.ch/en/ressource...
Explore the 2012 slide deck by FingerPaint Marketing for Mallinckrodt considering #opioid marketing and sales strategies: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/yzpj0244/
Graphic with text, “Introduction of Higher Strength Facilitates Growth of All Strengths” seems to highlight the benefits of stronger #opioids for sales numbers, rather than healthcare. See in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/47a326ac-718...
Missed today’s #Opioid #Archive webinar on #data diversion for #opioid sales with Antoine Lentacker —or just want to watch again? Catch it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/EXhHxeSCqyI
Join us TODAY to learn how our #archives have been used to study industry use of data to promote #opioid sales. Click to register: jhjhm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Explore the slide deck to see how Mallinckrodt sales reps were trained to incorporate the disposal pouches into their Xartemis XR (oxycodone hydrochloride and acetaminophen) sales calls. www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/hgpy0242/
Mallinckrodt used Verde's Medsaway® pouch to promote safe medication disposal. The label highlights clean water, but the image’s source focuses on minimizing “potential for diversion or accidental exposure” of prescription #opioids. See in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/d4201f85-a10...
And we shared a guide about PBM Medco (now part of Express Scripts) and their relationship with Purdue: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/more...
We also posted a guide about Endo's 2017 withdrawal of “crush-resistant” Opana ER from the market, due to public health concerns. Read more: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/more...
In February we added about 273,000 new Endo documents to the #Opioid #Archive, bringing the collection to more than 1.6 million docs.
We’re excited to share our first batch of artificial intelligence (AI) generated metadata, enhancing access by adding info like title, author, and date to more than 3K docs in the #Opioid #Archive's Teva & Allergan Documents. Read more in our blog post: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/news/6998aff...
🎉 We are in the final stages of processing the last volumes of internal documents produced by the Settling States in the multistate litigation against #Juul Labs. New guides & rsrch tools for working w Juul Labs documents will b added to the site soon!
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/coll...
Paper alert 👏 Researchers used #Opioid #Archive docs to investigate how companies like Purdue may have employed abuse-deterrent formulations to protect market share rather than to protect public health: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Paper Alert! Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, authors investigate the role of trade associations in managing conflict between the US cigarette and smokeless tobacco industries. #TobaccoControl #PublicHealth #archives
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