The marketing of pharmaceutical agents: friend or foe?

Australas Psychiatry

Clinical Associate Professor, Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Published: April 2010

Objective: The aim of this paper is to provide a viewpoint regarding the marketing of pharmaceutical agents to psychiatrists and examine the results of a brief survey of the nature of booths, and gifts they offered, during 2009 RANZCP Congress in Adelaide.

Conclusions: The pharmaceutical industry is highly organized and scientifically sophisticated. Efforts to influence our prescribing are likely to have a proven scientific base and to be responsive to evidence.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10398561003665460DOI Listing

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