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SavingAdvice.com 2006
“Anytime that you are starting a new prescription medication or changing to a lower costing medication, ask your doctor for samples of the new medication. This is to ensure that you don't spend a lot of money for a full prescription bottle to find out later that the medication doesn't work correctly for you.”

Pharmaceutical Research Manufactures Association 2008
“Free pharmaceutical samples can give physicians valuable first-hand experience with new treatment options. And free samples can help patients begin treatment sooner, find the right medicine, and offer and option for those who have difficulty affording their medications.”

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Consumer Alert 2007
“A physician may give you samples of a particular medication at the time of your office or clinic visit. Typically, this may done at the start of a new prescription so the physician can see if the medication is effective for your condition and is well tolerated before you purchase a large amount. This is a reasonable idea, particularly if it saves you from having medications available that you can no longer use.”

American Osteopathic Association 2007
“WHEREAS, free samples of prescription drugs help patients who lack insurance coverage for medications or those who cannot afford medications and also help physicians determine whether a drug is appropriate for a patient before purchasing a prescription; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the American Osteopathic Association encourages the pharmaceutical industry to continue the distribution of drug samples…

Eye For Pharma Blog, October 2006
“Drug samples are just the latest focus in the ongoing scrutiny of the industry’s marketing practices. Pharma’s need to anticipate that marketing reform advocates will eventually get their way and have the practice of providing doctors and patients with free samples prohibited. The shame is that although the industry will adapt and find other ways to get its product messages out to physicians, patients in financial need will lose one more avenue to access the drugs they need in a system that increasingly fails to meet their needs.
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Fierce Healthcare, July 2007
“It doesn't seem fair to penalize the poor and struggling middle-income patients who can't afford co-pays just on principle. As a consumer, I'm all for knowing physicians are unbiased, but the reality is that samples bring some pretty effective drugs to patients who wouldn't be able to get them otherwise…”