Doctors Received $1.5 Million in Free Lunches From Pharma Companies

Free Meals for Dead Bodies –

Feb. 21, 2020 – That’s a dangerous practice,” Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. Farley says free meals by doctors offered by big pharma are, at least, partly to blame for the city’s opioid epidemic and now, pharma companies are still providing free meals to doctors like these with other drugs. “Studies show that the more free lunches that an opioid manufacturer buys for doctors, the more opioid prescriptions he writes,” Farley said.

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