California doctors report prescription drug company payments for speaking engagements

Press-Telegram

Drug money runs deep in the Golden State. It comes from the world's leading pharmaceutical companies and leads to a mental health clinic in Granada Hills, an anesthesiologist's office in Santa Monica, and to a cardiologist with practices in Glendale, Pasadena, and Long Beach. In fact, hundreds of physicians, psychiatrists, and medical school faculty members across California are on the payroll of major drug companies, earning tens of thousands of dollars for speaking to other medical professionals at events held by industry leaders that make drugs such as Advair, Cymbalta, Viagra and Zoloft.

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