AMA’s Contribution to the Opioid Epidemic

As detailed in a Mother Jones exposé, the AMA has a long, cozy relationship with Big Pharma, including Purdue Pharma

The AMA’s pain management training program for physicians implied that doctors were too tentative to give patients these pills and “the effectiveness of opioid therapy may be undermined by misconceptions about their risks”
   
The AMA’s pain management training program was developed by a team with close ties to the industry

 
Purdue Pharma gave more than $3 million in donations to the AMA and the AMA Foundation from 2002 to 2018
   
Richard Sackler, who served as the president of Purdue Pharma, was a member of the AMA Foundation’s board of directors from 1998 to 2004
   
While being dependent on profits from commercial endeavors and receiving heavy funding from Big Pharma, the AMA functions as a trade group while portraying itself as independent

 

Read the full analysis by Dr. Mercola