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Thursday, May 13, 2021DRUGFOODOPIOIDSTOBACCO

12K New Industry Documents Posted including New Internal Insys Opioid Documents

11,953 new documents were added to IDL today!

Included in this new posting:
  • 4,809 Tobacco Industry Documents from RJ Reynolds, Philip Morris and Brown and Williamson files
  • 5,691 new Food Industry Documents from the USRTK Food Collection. The majority of these documents concern Coca-Cola partnerships with academic institutions and researchers on issues of obesity and exercise.
  • 1,453 Insys Therapeutics internal documents. This Insys Litigation Documents collection is being processed and posted over the course of the year (yes its a big collection!). The documents come from U.S. District Court records (District of Massachusetts, Boston) and from investigation by the New York State Office of the Attorney General.
    In 2016, former executives and managers of Insys Therapeutics Inc. (an opioid manufacturer which produced Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication) were indicted by a Grand Jury on charges including conspiracy to commit racketeering, mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback law in relation to a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners and defraud insurers.
Thursday, April 15, 2021FOODTOBACCO

New Food and Tobacco Industry Documents Posted

869 new documents have been posted to the Industry Documents Library today!

This includes:
Wednesday, March 24, 2021CHEMICALDRUGFOODFOSSILFUELOPIOIDSTOBACCO

UCSF and Johns Hopkins University Launch Opioid Industry Documents Archive

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Johns Hopkins University announced the launch of the Opioid Industry Documents Archive, a digital repository of publicly disclosed documents from recent judgments, settlements, and ongoing lawsuits concerning the opioid crisis. The documents come from government litigation against pharmaceutical companies, including opioid manufacturers and distributors related to their contributions to the deadly epidemic, as well as litigation taking place in federal court on behalf of thousands of cities and counties in the United States. The documents in the archive include emails, memos, presentations, sales reports, budgets, audit reports, Drug Enforcement Administration briefings, meeting agendas and minutes, expert witness reports, and depositions of drug company executives.  

The Opioid Industry Documents Archive leverages extraordinary expertise within UCSF and Johns Hopkins University in library science, information technology, and digital archiving. It also relies on scholarship focused on many dimensions of the opioid epidemic, ranging from the history of medicine to pharmaceutical policy to clinical care. Key organizations at UCSF involved include the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; Department of Clinical Pharmacy; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; Department of Family and Community Medicine; and Library. From Johns Hopkins University, the project involves the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness; Welch Medical Library; Institute of the History of Medicine; and Sheridan Libraries’ Digital Research and Curation Center.  

The new archive will provide free public access to anyone who is interested in investigating the activities that have led to the devastating epidemic, which has now contributed to the deaths of nearly 500,000 people. The archive will promptly include new documents as they become available through resolution of legal action against companies that contributed to the deadly opioid crisis. The launch coincides with the universities’ efforts to house more than 250,000 documents produced by opioid manufacturer Insys in the course of its bankruptcy proceedings following opioid litigation.  

The archive is similar to the groundbreaking Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive at UCSF, which has fostered scientific and public health discoveries shaping tobacco policy in the U.S. and around the world. This new archive from two top research universities will deliver a wealth of information that experts can analyze to help policymakers prevent another disaster like this from happening again.

To learn more, read the full press release or contact us.
Thursday, March 18, 2021TOBACCO

New Tobacco Industry Documents Posted

2,218 new tobacco documents were posted today!  

10th Anniversary Conference Recordings
The Medical Heritage Library 10th Anniversary Conference took place on November 13, 2020. UCSF Archives and Special Collections staff attended the day of virtual presentations, and our Industry Documents Library archivists delivered a talk titled “Smoke on Screens: Audiovisual Evidence of the Tobacco Industry’s Harms to Public Health.” All talks were recorded with captioning and are now available on the Medical Heritage Library YouTube channel (see Session 2 for the “Smoke on Screens” talk).

Thursday, February 18, 2021TOBACCO

20,000+ Formerly Confidential Documents Posted Today

24,601 new Tobacco Industry Documents were added today:
Education & Research Updates:

If you were unable to join us for the annual It's About a Billion Lives Symposium in January, or just want to re-visit the day, the recording is now available at:  http://tiny.ucsf.edu/BillionLives2021


The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) has announced a new funding opportunity  for investigating industry influence over scientific information.  Using the Industry Documents Library,  researchers will examine past efforts by the tobacco, chemical, drug, food, and fossil fuel industries to  suppress public awareness of the link between breast cancer and environmental exposures. 
Applications are due 3/24/2021.
https://www.cbcrp.org/funding-opportunities/sri/industry-influence-rfp.html

Thursday, January 21, 2021TOBACCO

4000+ New Tobacco Industry Documents Posted

4234 new documents were added to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents:
Thursday, December 10, 2020FOODTOBACCO

Formerly Confidential RJ Reynolds Documents Posted

Tobacco Industry Documents update
For our last documents update for 2020 we uploaded over 10,000 tobacco industry documents:
Food Industry Documents update
2 new BC Sugar Company documents were added today containing 1978-1979 Sugar Association Board Meeting materials

Documents Research update
We added four papers and publications to the IDL Bibliography recently. Links to text as well as industry documents used in the research available on the bibliography page:
  • van der Eijk Y, Tan GPP. Tobacco industry targeting of health-conscious youth with 'lighter' cigarettes: the case of Singapore. Tobacco Control 2020 Oct.
  • Jureidini J, McHenry LB. The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research. Wakefield Press, 2020.
  • Mathew M, Karazas D, Manmatha R and Jawahar CV. DocVQA: A Dataset for VQA on Document Images. 2020 July.
  • Qian ZJ, Hill MJ, Ramamurthi D and Jackler RK. Promoting Tobacco Use Among Students: The U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company College Marketing Program. The Laryngoscope, 2020 Oct.

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