PharmedOut is a project at Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing and educates health care professionals and students about pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices. PharmedOut provides educational slideshows, videos, events, and information about CME courses free of industry sponsorship.
Dr. Fugh-Berman and Judy Butler joined the University of California San Francisco-Johns Hopkins University Opioid Industry Documents Archive for a webinar on August 18, 2026. They discussed and answered questions regarding our paper “Redefining Pain and Addiction: How Opioid Manufacturers Changed Medical Language to Foster Opioid Use.”
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PharmedOut's latest project, the Pharmanipulation Podcast, is a new show dedicated to the topics of evidence-based medicine and industry influence on medical information and public health.
How Pharma Grooms Patients and Advocacy Groups to Sell Drugs
Learn from advocates from the US and Canada about how industry uses individual patients and patient advocacy organizations to affect perceptions about drug efficacy and harms.
PharmedOut, with support from Kaiser Permanente, is pleased to share our Pharma Marketing Hub, which contains factsheets and literature summaries on 15 pharmaceutical marketing topics.
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