Adopt the RX Gift Ban
Drug companies
use gifts to promote prescribing of the highest-cost drugs. As a result
consumers and taxpayers pay for the cost of gifts in the price of our drugs and
health care premiums. Further, the drugs promoted by gifts are typically the
newest drugs about which we have the least safety and efficacy information. For
example the excessive marketing of Vioxx, led to prescribing of a new drug that
ended up causing unforeseen heart problems and killing 40,000
people. Help us put an
end to this practice, reign in the high cost of prescription drugs, and make
prescribing safer by urging your representative and senator to support the
pharmaceutical gift ban.
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