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The Pharmaceutical Research Manufactures Association (PhRMA) issued a press release earlier this year defending the distribution of prescription drug samples. The press release states: “Free pharmaceutical samples can give physicians valuable first-hand experience with new treatment options. And free samples can help patients begin treatment sooner, find the right medicine, and offer and option for those who have difficulty affording their medications.” Read the full press release here: http://www.phrma.org/news_room/press_releases/phrma_defends_distribution_of_pharmaceutical_samples/
The Web site Reduce Prescription Costs agrees, prescription sample medication is a great way to determine if your body will tolerate the new medication. Often times patients don’t know how their body will respond to new medication, so a sample medication is often the best way of seeing if the prescription will work. From the article, “Anytime that you are starting a new prescription medication or changing to a lower costing medication, ask your doctor for samples of the new medication. This is to ensure that you don't spend a lot of money for a full prescription bottle to find out later that the medication doesn't work correctly for you.” Read the full article here: http://www.reduceprescriptioncosts.com/prescription_drug_samples.html
The Journal of Medical Ethics published a study on clinical ethics a couple years ago that revealed many doctors don’t see a problem with accepting prescription samples from pharmaceutical representatives. According to the article, “Most respondents (doctors) thought it proper to accept drug samples (92%)… A third (33%) of the respondents thought that their own decision to prescribe a drug would probably be influenced by accepting drug samples…Respondents who distributed drug samples to patients indicated doing so because of patients’ financial need (94%) and their convenience (76%) and less so as a result of knowledge of the efficacy of the sample product (63%)… The full article is available at http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/10/559.
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