The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "prescription drugs" ...
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Resources for health topics
Richards highlights data on health topics including mortality, prescription drugs and hospital performance.
Tags: Centers for Disease Control; mortality; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Center for Health Statistics (CDC); international classification of diseases; coroner; medical examiner; autopsy report; Drug Enforcement Agency; controlled substance task force; ARCOS; Automation of reports and Consolidated Orders System; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; HCUPnet
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Covering the Drug Industry
This PowerPoint presentation goes into detail about covering the drug industry. It includes examples of industry reports, court documents and FDA warning letters. McKie discusses various sources for reporters, as well as general advice for reporters on this beat.
Tags: drug industry; pharmaceuticals; FDA; doctors; prescription medication
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The Bupe Fix
Schulte discusses a recent Baltimore Sun investigation into the drug buprenorphine, which is often recommended to treat narcotics addicts. Schulte lists sources that were helpful to the reporters during the investigation, such as the DEA's ARCOS system and the National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment.
Tags: drugs; addiction; prescription; substance abuse; internet resources; sources
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Investigating the health industry
McKie and Reber outline the investigative process behind their IRE Award-winning series, Prescribed to Death. They summarize ten strategies that enabled them to construct and original, comprehensive investigation.
Tags: health care; health; medicine; pharmaceuticals; drugs; medical; doctors; hospitals; research; prescriptions; senior citizens; retirees
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2006 CAR for Broadcast: Using Health Care Data
Amons discusses her recent investigation into Tennessee's version of Medicaid, called TennCare. She discusses what data she used, and how she went about doing the analysis. Amons ends the tipsheet with some general advice for broadcast journalists interested in incorporating more CAR work into their newsroom.
Tags: broadcast reporting; television; pharmaceutical industry; prescription drugs; computer-assisted reporting
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Uncovering the Secrets of Seroxat
The author recounts each stage of the BBC Panorama investigation into the drug Seroxat, which is known as Paxil in the United States. It is one of the world's most prescribed anti-depressants, and it is addictive and can cause self-harm and suicide in some patients. The BBC investigation also found that the drug was sometimes tested on children.
Tags: prescription medicine; drug companies; television journalism; broadcast news; health
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Using CAR to cover adverse drug reactions
In this tipsheet, McKie first explains his own CAR investigations into health care, and then lists ten strategies that helped him get the story. The strategies include everything from "Be willing to negotiate" to "Explain to your audience what the database can't tell you." McKie includes a detailed explanation for each tip.
Tags: health; doctors; drugs; prescription medicine; insurance; hospitals; pharmacies; broadcast journalism; CAR
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Investigating Off-Label Prescriptions
In this tipsheet, Young explains what "off-label prescribing" is as well as ways drugs are used off label. Included are sources that evaluate effectiveness of these drugs as well as tips for identifying off-label therapies that might be risky to patients.
Tags: pharmaceuticals; health care; drugs; prescriptions; off label; off-label prescribing; treatment; medicine; investigative reporting; public health; public safety
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Drug data: Key data sources on prescription drug sales and marketing
Adams lists sources of pharmaceutical data that include the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey as well as data from the FDA. The background, data description and pitfalls are described for each dataset.
Tags: CAR; pharmaceuticals; health care; data; database; hospitals; National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey; prescriptions; drugs; FDA; FDA adverse event data
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Investigating Pharmaceuticals
For the Herald-Leader's series "Prescription for Pain," which covered the Oxycontin outbreak in Kentucky, the newspaper had to obtain data on the drug from multiple sources. Local, state and federal data were all necessary, and this tipsheet looks at how they obtained all their data, and what they did with it once it was in their possession.
Tags: OxyContin