The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) House of Delegates approved a policy calling on Congress to ban all direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs and medication-containing devices during ASHP’s 2016 Summer Meetings and Exhibition this week in Baltimore.
A 2002 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the topic noted that “pharmaceutical companies have increased spending on DTC advertising more rapidly than they have increased spending on
JUNE 17, 2016