Preying on Prescribers (and Their Patients) - Pharmaceutical Marketing, Iatrogenic Epidemics, and the Sackler Legacy

N Engl J Med. 2019 May 9;380(19):1785-1787. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1902811. Epub 2019 Apr 10.

Authors

Scott H Podolsky¹, David Herzberg¹, Jeremy A Greene¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Medical Library - both in Boston (S.H.P.); the Department of History, State University of New York, Buffalo, Buffalo (D.H.); and the Department of History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (J.A.G.).

PMID: 30969504
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1902811

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / history
Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use
Anti-Bacterial Agents / history
Drug Industry / history*
History, 20th Century
Humans
Marketing / history*
Medical Overuse / trends
Oxycodone / history
Oxycodone / therapeutic use
Oxytetracycline / history
Pharmaceutical Preparations / history*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Oxycodone
Oxytetracycline

Personal name as subject

Arthur Sackler