Science & Industry: Ethics of Academic Relationships with Alcohol Beverage Industry, Pharmaceutical Companies & Funding Agencies.

Discussion of trends in industry sponsorship of scientific research and the ethical risks involved in accepting funding from industry sources. Risks include conflict of interest, biasing the research agenda, biasing the corpus of research findings, and confusing public perceptions of research.

• Peter Miller, Commissioning Editor, ADDICTION

• Evaluation: Miller

• Relationships with funding agencies -

• The Job of Science -

• Two main reasons -

• Types of Adverse Influence -

• Sources of influence

• Alcohol and Tobacco Industries -

• Pharmaceutical Industry -

• Government agencies -

• Other interest groups -

• Who can react? -

• Study sponsor -

• Conflict of interest statements -

• Institutions -

• Professional Societies -

• Individual authors -

• PERIL Framework -

• Example of a "Funding Opportunity" -

• Case #1 -

• Case #2 -

• PERIL analysis -

• Summary -

• References -