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The guidelines also reiterate the group’s 2002 code, which prohibited more expensive goods and services like tickets to professional sports games and junkets to resorts. And it asks companies that finance medical courses, conferences or scholarships to leave the selection of study material and scholarship recipients to outside program coordinators.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/business/31drug.html



Huh. Call me crazy, but it almost seems as if guidelines and codes haven't meant much for a while. Like, real life "air quotes" oh yes, we won't send them to resorts.

Well, if I had to make an educated guess, they really did cross their fingers and nobody seems to be investigating/enforcing otherwise and they're getting away with it - because I'm telling you, first hand... it's happening, quite frequently, at least on the West Coast.


I used to work in the industry when all this changed. Could there be a one-off company doing it? Sure. They are risking being brought up on Federal charges for it. The gov't has gone after drug companies for much less.




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