Having worked for a surgeon, I can tell you that drug reps come to the office, buy expensive lunches for all staff members along with pens, and other various "toys" with the drug brand on it and push the doc to use the med they are peddaling that week. A doctors office will be packed full of that med sample and handed out like candy to patients. And some docs get paid in different ways to do this.

Now...This can be done responsibly as a sample for someone to try and see if it helps them, it can be handed out for free to those without prescription coverage or money for the illness it treats (as my doc did), or it can be abused by being handed out and prescribed to patients for the benefit of the doc and drug company.
Just my experience.

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