Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose Deaths

Marketing Death/Smoking Gun –

Jan. 18, 2019 –  A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. The authors, from Boston Medical Center and New York University School of Medicine, found that counties where doctors received more industry marketing subsequently saw an increase in both the number of opioids prescribed and opioid-related overdose deaths.

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