Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3161

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Publication type: news

Mangold T.
Relationships between doctors and salesment are lurching out of control
The Listener (London) 1983 Jan 202-4

Abstract:

The article describes how drug companies spend extravagantly launching their new drugs by taking doctors to exotic locations, putting them up in expensive hotels and providing them with entertainment and free meals. This form of hospitality seems to violate sections of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Keywords:
*analysis/United Kingdom/regulation of promotion/ ABPI/ Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry/ drug company sponsored meals and travel/ Code of Practice (UK)/ relationship between medical profession and industry/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: PAYMENT FOR MEALS, ACCOMODATION, TRAVEL, ENTERTAINMENT/PROMOTION DISGUISED: CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: COMPLIANCE, SANCTIONS, STANDARDS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION