Don’t do it Canada!
Abramson was a family doctor practising in a bedroom community north of Boston when Washington relaxed its advertising rules. He watched his patients turn into supplicants for heavily marketed drugs. “They kept coming in, asking for ““ and often demanding ““ expensive drugs they didn’t need. I couldn’t talk them out of it.”
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