Fox in the hen house? โ
October 5, 2019 – Now her appointment to the NIDA panel has drawn criticism from drug use recovery advocates over her ties to industry funding and her links to a 2018 lobbying campaign led by PhRMA against Minnesotaโs tax on opioid drugs.
โItโs disgusting. Why should the industry that created the problem have a seat on a drug abuse advisory panel,โ Emily Walden of Fed Up!, a recovery advocate coalition that accepts no money from the pharmaceutical industry, told BuzzFeed News. Waldenโs son died of an opioid overdose in 2012 … โOur lawmakers asked us who is this person flying in from Washington to tell us about recovery, and we told them not to meet with her, that she doesnโt represent the community,โ addiction counselor Randy Anderson of Bold North Recovery and Consulting in Minneapolis told BuzzFeed News.
