Attorney General Consumer & Prescriber Grant Program (CPGP)
| The Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program will fund programs designed to provide health care professionals and consumers information relating to prescription drugs, including the way in which drugs are marketed. Grants will be made in several rounds. The first rounds focused on prescriber education. The next round will focus on consumer education. On May 13, 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer, Inc., entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance/Discontinuance with the Attorneys General of 50 States and the District of Columbia to settle allegations that Warner-Lambert conducted an unlawful marketing campaign for the drug Neurontin® that violated state consumer protection laws. Among other things, the settlement provides for a $21 million Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program to be administered by a Special Committee of State Attorneys General pursuant to an Oregon Court Order and an Attorney General Memorandum of Understanding.
| Announcements:May 12, 2008The Center for Evidence-based Policy is no longer the contract administrator for the CPGP program as of May 12, 2008. Until a new administrator is selected by the Special Committee, all questions about the CPGP program should be directed to David Hart, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice at david.hart@doj.state.or.us. Please specify Neurontin Grant Program in your subject line. The web page will be kept up-to-date until a new administrator is selected. February 7, 2008 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Special Committee has re-released and extended the due date for the RFA for a program evaluator that was originally released on November 30, 2007! The RFA and forms in their entirety are available for download here. The new application deadline is March 3, 2008 at Noon, Pacific time. November 30, 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Special Committee announces that the search for a program evaluator is underway! Deadline for applying to the program is January 28, 2008 at Noon, Pacific time. September 25, 2007 We anticipate making an announcement about the consumer round decision in another month. Thanks for your patience. May 11, 2007 We have completed a review of the grant applications and a preliminary decision has been made. We will make a public announcement about it in another month, pending the successful negotiation of outstanding issues. March 19, 2007 We received 34 applications for the consumer round. We are in the midst of an independent review of these applications, and the Special Committee will make decisions in April 2007. Applications came in from 16 states and the District of Columbia. January 17, 2007 |