Prescriptions for Profit

Mar 28, 1989 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates abuses in the fiercely competitive marketing and promotion of prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical manufacturers. The program explores the dangers of hype and hard sell applied to widely prescribed a... (more)rthritis medications and how the industry tries to influence the prescribing habits of doctors.

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