Senate to take up Prescription Drug Marketing Reforms

  MASSPIRG calls on Senate to defeat Pharma supported amendments to state budget which will roll back the prescription drug gift ban and prohibition on prescription drug marketing coupons. MASSPIRG praises the inclusion of the academic detailing program in the Senate budget which, acting as a counter balance to industry marketing,  provides unbiased, data supported  information to physicians about prescription drugs and best practices for their use.    

MASSPIRG calls on Senate to defeat Pharma supported amendments to state budget which will roll back the prescription drug gift ban and prohibition on prescription drug marketing coupons. MASSPIRG praises the inclusion of the academic detailing program in the Senate budget which, acting as a counter balance to industry marketing,  provides unbiased, data-supported  information to physicians about prescription drugs and best practices for their use.  

Authors

Deirdre Cummings

Legislative Director, MASSPIRG

Deirdre runs MASSPIRG’s public health, consumer protection and tax and budget programs. Deirdre has led campaigns to improve public records law and require all state spending to be transparent and available on an easy-to-use website, close $400 million in corporate tax loopholes, protect the state’s retail sales laws to reduce overcharges and preserve price disclosures, reduce costs of health insurance and prescription drugs, and more. Deirdre also oversees a Consumer Action Center in Weymouth, Mass., which has mediated 17,000 complaints and returned $4 million to Massachusetts consumers since 1989. Deirdre currently resides in Maynard, Mass., with her family. Over the years she has visited all but one of the state's 351 towns — Gosnold.