Free Drug Sample Dangers

By: CBS News Email

Posted: Mon 8:27 AM, Sep 08, 2008

In a St. Joseph Healthscene report, doctors who hand out drug companies' free samples to uninsured patients may actually be costing their patients more money in the long-run. A new study's found doctors tend to continue patients on the more expensive brand-name drug, rather than switch them over to a cheaper generic.

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