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OIDA staff added 259,000+ documents to its newest collection, the Teva and Allergan Documents. This batch brings the collection to more than 848,000 documents and includes sales training presentations, marketing communications, and more.
The Teva and Allergan collection will encompass about 1.9 million documents when complete. Processed documents are being made public on a rolling basis with monthly releases expected from 2024-2026.
Announcing the OIDA Data Products
Explore our newest resource, OIDA Data Products — tools that can facilitate and inspire research.
We created these datasets to provide access points for data analysis of Opioid Industry Documents. Researchers get a running start on exploring data, benefiting from our work to curate and deduplicate documents, provide a glossary of spreadsheet column names, and more. Users can craft queries online or select a subset of the data for download, allowing them to interact with OIDA data before dedicating time and resources to a full analysis.
“OIDA Data Products reduces some of the barriers to working with OIDA data, helping researchers get a sense of the many gems hidden among OIDA’s millions of documents,” said Kevin Hawkins, OIDA program director for Johns Hopkins University. “Working with data wranglers, statisticians, and developers, we hope these data products will facilitate new research, helping us to better understand the opioid crisis.”
To learn more and access OIDA Data Products, visit https://data.oida-resources.jhu.edu/. 
151,000+ new documents were posted to the Juul Labs Collection today!
This new batch of documents includes social media presence reports, marketing campaigns, focus group findings, product design, and more.
In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
OIDA staff added 218,267 documents to its newest collection, the Teva and Allergan Documents. This batch brings the collection to more than 588,000 documents and includes sales training presentations, interviews with prescribers, reports on focus groups, product communications, and more.
The Teva and Allergan collection will encompass about 1.9 million documents when complete. Processed documents are being made public on a rolling basis with monthly releases expected from 2024-2026.
Announcing the OIDA Image Collection and How You Can Help!
We are proud to introduce the OIDA Image Collection, a website created to highlight images within the OIDA documents. Images provide unique entry points to understand a visual narrative of the opioid industry and gain insight into harmful corporate and marketing practices that contributed to the opioid crisis. Researchers can browse, limit their results by filters, and search by keyword. By viewing the source documents, you can see the images in their original context.
The OIDA team used artificial intelligence (AI) to write captions for highlighted images within the OIDA Image Collection but we could use your help! We have generated captions using two different AI models and need to decide which AI-generated caption is better for use in the OIDA Image Collection. Thanks to support from Hugging Face, a platform for collaborating on models and datasets for machine learning, and its Argilla data annotation tool, we have created a handy interface for voting on the quality of image captions. To help us out, you’ll just need to create a free Hugging Face account.
Your image labeling efforts will contribute to an open preference dataset, crucial for "steering" AI models towards generating more useful outputs in specific domains. Please email opioidarchive@jh.edu with any questions.
117K new documents were posted to the Juul Labs Collection today!
This new batch of documents includes social media presence reports, marketing campaigns, focus group findings, product design, and more.
In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
2019 SRNT slide deck.
World Digital Preservation Day – 7 November 2024
Each year, the Digital Preservation Coalition promotes World Digital Preservation Day, which falls on the first Thursday of November.
In line with this year’s theme of 'Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities,' the UC Libraries’ Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) is hosting a community-building Open House event which presents an opportunity for everyone to learn more about digital preservation while also sharing their own stories and experiences in this space.
Please join the event online on November 7, 2024 from 11AM – 12PM where you’ll hear digital preservation stories from us at the UCSF Industry Documents Library as well as the UC & Jepson Herbaria.
Register via Zoom.
Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop: Recording Now Available!
IDL and the UCSF Center for Tobacco Research and Education (CTCRE) held the "Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop" virtually on October 8th from 9 am-12:15 pm PT.
If you didn't have a chance to join us, the event recording is now available
The UCSF Industry Documents Library is pleased to highlight the work of 2024 Summer Fellow Gordon Lichtstein. Gordon is an incoming MIT student with an interest in the intersection of computer science and linguistics in NLP and the application of NLP for the betterment of humanity such as in environmental sustainability or the digital humanities.
Over the course of the 8-week internship, Gordon crafted and completed four distinct projects that leverage natural language processing and data science within the context of our JUUL Labs Collection and the broader IDL. Project One investigates the optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy of low-quality and handwritten documents in the absence of ground truth data. Project Two explores the implementation of embedding search algorithms and visualizations aimed at enhancing the relevance of document recommendations for users. Project Three employs txt-ferret to conduct a thorough scan of a substantial corpus of industry documents to identify sensitive information, including credit card numbers. Finally, Project Four assesses the biases present in large language model (LLM) summarization through the lens of sentiment analysis.
Read Gordon's entire report and reflection via eScholarship.
The IDL staff is deeply appreciative of Gordon's thoughtful and comprehensive contributions, as well as his engagement in team meetings and Amazon Web Services workshops. His projects and use of NLP techniques with our document corpus have greatly enriched our understanding.
OIDA staff added 123K documents to its newest collection, the Teva and Allergan Documents. This batch brings the collection to more than 370,000 documents and includes sales training presentations, interviews with prescribers on Fentora message testing, reports on focus group responses to REMS messaging, and more.
The Teva and Allergan collection will encompass about 1.9 million documents when complete. Processed documents are being made public on a rolling basis with monthly releases expected from 2024-2026.
213,762 new documents were posted to the JUUL Labs Collection today!
This new batch of documents includes social media presence reports, marketing campaigns, focus group findings, product design, and more.
In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
Above image: 2019 JUUL Early Primary State Focus Group Findings slide deck.
The UCSF Library and five community-based partner organizations have received a $97,000 grant from the California State Library to co-create the Opioid Crisis Community Archive (OCCA).
This archive, the first of its kind, will document the impact of the opioid crisis on communities and community-based service organizations in Northern California. While OIDA documents illuminate the corporate and business realities of the opioid crisis, the OCCA aims to close the gap in information about the community response. A key output of the OCCA project is the inclusion of underrepresented voices in the historical record to curate the archive.
Learn more: California State Archive Funds Opioid Crisis Community Archive
Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop
IDL and the UCSF Center for Tobacco Research and Education (CTCRE) will hold the "Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop" virtually on October 8th from 9 am-12:15 pm PT.
This event offers an in-depth exploration of our Industry Documents Library and our new JUUL Labs documents collection and features talks from experts on how document collections can be used for teaching, research, and public health advocacy. Please join us!
Register at: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/TIDWS2024
New to the 'Archives as Data' world? The DHH program is here to help! The UCSF DHH now offers virtual courses to help with digital humanities projects, provide 1:1 research consultations, and created a new 'Archives as Data' research guide which is a centralized resource containing descriptions of datasets that have been prepared from UCSF archival collections, including the following:
Teva and Allergan Documents
OIDA staff added approx. 125,000 documents to its newest collection, Teva and Allergan Documents. This second batch brings the collection to more than 247,000 documents and includes adverse drug event reports, sales representative field coaching reports, research articles and more.
The Teva and Allergan collection will encompass about 1.9 million documents when complete. Processed documents are being made public on a rolling basis with monthly releases expected from 2024-2026.
Above image: Slide deck laying out the goals of a proposed PROTECT committee composed of key opinion leaders, developed to support risk management efforts for Fentora (a fentanyl buccal tablet). The verbiage notably omits that Fentora is indicated for cancer patients, shifting the emphasis to chronic pain disorders
JUUL Labs Collection
171,047 new documents were posted to the JUUL Labs Collection today!
This new batch of documents includes influencer reports and presentations, social media presence, targeted marketing campaigns, and more.
In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
Above image: 2018 JUUL Brand Guide slide deck.
We are excited to introduce the 2024 artist Ruth Tabancay and welcome her back to UCSF. Ruth commenced her year-long residency on July 1, 2024.
As the UCSF Library Artist in Residence, Ruth will be continuing her research into the adverse effects of global warming and plastic accumulation on the planet. She will be digging into the IDL's Fossil Fuel and Chemical Industry Documents Archive Collections to find early communications within those industries, responses to government regulations, and how these industries presented themselves to their stockholders and the public.
The artwork she creates for her final exhibition will incorporate plastic discarded at UCSF to highlight the contributions that medical centers make to the growing mass of plastic waste. In addition, Ruth will look at current literature to see how Big Oil and the plastic industry perpetuate the myth of plastic recycling.
Ruth will share updates on her project and upcoming workshops on the UCSF Library Artist in Residence webpage.
Learn more about Ruth’s work: www.ruthtabancay.com • @ruth_tabancay on Instagram • ruth.tabancay on Facebook
New Opioid Industry Documents Archive Collection - Teva and Allergan Documents
OIDA staff released the first tranche from its newest collection, the Teva and Allergan Documents. This first batch numbers more than 120,000 documents; the collection will encompass about 1.9 million documents when complete.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israeli company, is one of the United States’ biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, including oxycodone. Teva also manufactures the branded fentanyl products Actiq and Fentora. Ireland-based Allergan formerly made Norco- and Kadian-branded and generic opioids.
Teva acquired Cephalon in 2011 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teva Ltd., which added Actiq and Fentora to Teva’s portfolio. In 2016, Teva acquired Allergan’s generics business, Actavis. Allergan/Actavis was the second largest manufacturer to supply generic opioids to the United States, following Mallinckrodt. Allergan was acquired by AbbVie in 2019.
On November 23, 2022, attorneys general in eight states announced that proposed nationwide settlements totaling $6.6 billion had been reached with Teva and Allergan, resolving allegations that they contributed to the opioid crisis by illegally marketing their opioids and failing to maintain effective diversion controls. The nationwide settlements, which became effective in August 2023, call for Teva to pay a total of $4.24 billion over 13 years and Allergan to pay $2.37 billion over seven years.
The settlements prohibit Teva and Allergan from promoting opioids, directly and through front groups, and from engaging in opioid-related lobbying activities. The settlements also require the companies to turn over for public disclosure millions of internal documents they produced in the litigation.
Documents in the collection so far include emails, spreadsheets, presentations, reports, sales training materials, speaker program records, clinical study documentation, depositions and exhibits, trial exhibits, trial transcripts, privilege logs, and other court documents. Processed documents are being made public on a rolling basis with monthly releases expected from 2024-2026.
346,902 new JUUL Labs documents were uploaded today!
This new batch of documents includes customer complaint files, weekly social media reports, international markets retail strategies, and more.
In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
Opioid Crisis Timeline
Through OIDA documents, we can see the opioid crisis unfold. A new research resource, the timeline, introduces important pivot points in the epidemic by guiding readers to primary source documents, relevant scholarship, and contemporaneous journalistic accounts about the crisis.
New Papers and Publications
JUUL Labs Collection
Today's addition of 289,868 new JUUL Labs documents has brought the Industry Documents Library's total number of documents to over 20 Million!
This new batch of documents includes customer complaint files, weekly social media reports, international markets retail strategies, and more. In partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, the IDL continues to process and make available documents subject to public disclosure under JUUL Labs’s 2021 settlement with North Carolina.
Philip Morris International Collection
The University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) analyzed a small batch of newly added Philip Morris International (PMI) documents and found the tobacco company attempted to influence science and public health policy in Japan by covertly funding research and expert networks.
Read more about their key findings as well as the newly published article in Nicotine & Tobacco Research: “Keep it a secret”: leaked documents suggest Philip Morris International, and its Japanese affiliate, continue to exploit science for profit
New Papers and Publications
