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YouTube video by UCSF Industry Documents Library Opioid Documents in Action: Examining Opioid Marketing to Veterans

Missed last week’s #Opioid #Archive webinar on opioid marketing to #veterans -- or just want to watch again? Catch it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/-7fxU7VEFzY

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Opioid Documents in Action: Examining Opioid Marketing to Veterans. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Christopher K. Haddock and Andrew Kolodny for a Q&A about their research team's recently published article, "Imagine the Possibilities Pain Coalition and Opioid Marketing to Veterans: Lessons for...

It's #ArchivesMonth!👏 🎉 Join us TODAY to learn how our #Opioid #Archives have been used to examine opioid marketing to veterans. Click to register: jhjhm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Learn more about abuse deterrent technologies and opioids in this 2015 Teva slide deck: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/tjwy0333/

An idiographic that explains the concept of deter™ [...] - OIDA Image Collection "An idiographic that explains the concept of deter™ Multiparticulate Design. It is divided into three sections. The first section on the top left shows a close-up of a beaker filled with yellow-colore...

A graphic explains the DETERx multiparticulate design meant to reduce tampering and abuse of drugs like #opioids. See more in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/fd8e0909-eb0...

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Ruth Buck et al use #Opioid #Archive data and visualize the financial structures through which the Sackler family insulated themselves from Purdue’s legal and financial liabilities. Explore the interactive diagram here: rkbuck1.github.io/finviz/

Financial structures and family ties: disentangling Purdue Pharma’s corporate ownership structure and the Sackler family wealth US pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of its opioid medication, OxyContin, played a significant role in creating the ongoing US opioid epidemic. Using information recently ...

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“Financial structures and family ties: disentangling Purdue Pharma’s corporate ownership structure and the Sackler family wealth" doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Once the coalition formed, ILSI proposed to develop alliances w/ the American Dietetic Association, Diabetes Association & President's Council on Fitness to act as spokespersons. ILSI would serve as the money managers and International Food Information Council (IFIC) would take the comms helm.

Following the tobacco playbook, ILSI proposed forming a coalition of food makers, ingredient suppliers, restaurant chains, and third-party experts to launch a national obesity-prevention program for kids and teens - all aimed at fending off ad bans and excise taxes on certain foods.

Document spotlight 📚:
A 1999 ILSI CEO speech lays out a strategy for food industry leaders to counter rising obesity criticism. "We don't ever want to reach the food industry equivalent of the 1964 Surgeon General's Report."

www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/gsbf0074/

The sugar industry’s efforts to manipulate research on fluoride effectiveness and toxicity: a ninety-year history - Environmental Health Background Extensive academic research has documented the tobacco industry's manipulation of science. Recently, scholars have begun examining the sugar industry’s use of similar tactics to downplay sugar’s role in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and tooth decay. Archival records show sugar-industry-funded scientists criticized evidence linking sugar to these harms and deflected attention to other risk factors. Sugar’s connection to tooth decay has been the most difficult harm for the industry to deny. Evidence is emerging that the industry turned to promoting fluoride as the solution to tooth decay thereby averting calls for reducing sugar consumption. Newly accessible sugar and dental industry documents enable investigation into whether fluoride research was manipulated to deflect from sugar’s role in tooth decay, and later to defend fluoride when evidence of fluoride’s own harmful effects arose. Method Internal documents from sugar and dental organizations were examined and compared to the published scientific record. The Industries Documents collection at the University of California San Francisco was the main source of records. Analysis was in the context of the current understanding of how vested interests manipulate science to defend their products. Results Records dating back to the 1930s demonstrate the sugar industry, sometimes in cooperation with dental interests, exaggerated fluoride’s effectiveness and downplayed safety concerns. The sugar industry’s science manipulation campaign preceded the better-known tobacco industry campaign defending cigarettes. Key leaders of the sugar industry’s campaign transferred to the tobacco industry, which then adopted many of the sugar industry’s tactics and financed research from some of the same sugar-conflicted scientists. Currently, a prominent safety issue with fluoride is developmental neurotoxicity. Evidence indicates that researchers with undisclosed conflicts of interest with sugar and allied industries produced biased reviews downplaying this risk. Conclusion Recently available records reveal a long history of the sugar industry distorting fluoride science. Many of the sugar industry's tactics were later adopted by the tobacco industry and mirrored by industries involved in asbestos, lead, pesticides, climate change denial, and others. Researchers and policymakers should be aware of the distorted scientific record regarding fluoride effectiveness and toxicity.

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Our #tobacco and #food industry archives reveal a long trail of evidence: the #sugar industry began shaping #fluoride science back in the 1930s - playing up benefits, distorting research, & inspiring tactics later used by Big Tobacco.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...

YouTube video by UCSF Industry Documents Library UCSF Industry Documents Library Open House Webinar Sept 9, 2025

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This month, IDL staff added over 437,000 new #Juul documents produced by the Settling States in the multistate litigation against Juul Labs. Archivists noted 1300 special exhibits & FOIA requested documents in this batch - could be valuable materials! www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/coll...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Opioid Documents in Action: Examining Opioid Marketing to Veterans. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Christopher K. Haddock and Andrew Kolodny for a Q&A about their research team's recently published article, "Imagine the Possibilities Pain Coalition and Opioid Marketing to Veterans: Lessons for...

Join OIDA on Thurs, Oct 9 at 1:00 pm ET (10:00 am PT) as we host a Q&A with Christopher K. Haddock & Andrew Kolodny about their research team's recently published article on opioid marketing to veterans. Register for Zoom webinar here: jhjhm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Industry Documents Library Website Open House The UCSF Industry Documents Library (IDL) team invites scholars, researchers, students, advocates, and anyone interested in industry archives to attend this open house showcasing...

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Free open house event to get an overview of the new features on the UCSF Industry Documents Library website! This coming Tuesday, 9/9, 10:30 am PT. Register to attend today! calendars.library.ucsf.edu/event/14947215

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup The term “patent medicines” refers to “over-the-counter” preparations that generally were not patented, but trademarked. One of the most infamous of these was “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.”   In 184...

Learn more about Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup: www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/museum/mrs-w...

Explore more of Ziegler’s presentation: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docs...

An advertisement for Mrs. Windsor's Soothing Syrup. It [...] - OIDA Image Collection "An advertisement for Mrs. Windsor's Soothing Syrup. It features a young woman holding a baby in her arms. The woman is wearing a red and green dress with a white collar and a red shawl draped over he...

This ad for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup (a morphine/alcohol blend marketed for teething pain) was in a presentation on “Regulation of Opioids: Past, Present and Future Perspectives,” by Stephen Ziegler for Teva. See more in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/d37da1d0-64d...

Lobbying in the Shadows: A Comparative Analysis of Government Lobbyist Registers Policy Points Our research provides a starting point to benchmark government transparency measures to improve the quality and accessibility of information about lobbying. Policymakers and regulat...

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Lacy-Nichols, Baradar, Crosbie & Cullerton did a deep dive into government lobbyist registers to reveal that when #lobbying lacks transparency, industry interests can undermine policymaking, eroding public trust & accountability. #protectpublichealth

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Meet the 2025 UCSF Library Artist in Residence - UCSF Library The UCSF Library Artist in Residence program was first launched in 2020. The program continues to serve as an intersection of arts and sciences and brings a humanities dimension to our health sciences...

New UCSF Library Artist in Residence! 🎉
Meet Michelle Memran, filmmaker+advocate using the UCSF Archive #HIV/AIDS collection to reimagine the power of activism 2 transform how we talk about #Alzheimers & #dementia today. www.library.ucsf.edu/news/meet-th...
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"By better understanding how Purdue mobilized and enrolled actors to deflect accountability from their corporate malfeasance, this study provides insight into how certain actors can exert disproportionate influence over regulatory, medical, and public domains."

Bowra et al conducted a document analysis and key informant interviews to examine the processes through which Purdue constructed, mobilized, and embedded their marketing narratives in global health practice and policy environments.

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Check out “Networked narratives: Examining how Purdue Pharmaceuticals shaped public health policy and practice," which used the #Opioid #Archives
doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Explore the rest of the slide deck: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docs...

An infographic that explains why Americans pay so [...] - OIDA Image Collection "An infographic that explains why Americans pay so much for brand-name drugs and Canadians don't. It has a blue background with a red and black checkered pattern on the right side. On the left side th...

An infographic compares spending on drugs in America compared with other countries. The infographic is part of a 2014 Mallinckrodt slide deck on “infographic rollout concepts.” See more in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/dde5fa86-96d...

How criminology can support environmental health: the case of PFAS - Environmental Health This commentary argues that the field of criminology can aid in addressing PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) pollution, providing levers to achieve public health aims of drastically lowering ...

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Can criminology help tackle #PFAS pollution? Authors use the DuPont/Chemours case in Dordrecht to show how regulatory gaps & knowledge imbalance fueled pollution & how criminology offers tools to push 4 accountability & reduced emissions. #archivesresearch
doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Explore documents discussing Grünenthal in the #Opioid #Archive: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/resu...