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...locker-room poker game. Each night on the road, to make sure his Twins got their beauty sleep, he personally tucked them in. When eight players missed his 1:30 a.m. bed check after a night game in New York, he docked them each $100. Relief Pitcher Ron Kline got personal attention of a different sort-get rid of that gut or go to the minors, ordered Ermer, and in two weeks Kline dropped from...
Another case led to a secret room, hollowed out of the hillside behind the garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
Buracek's book, published by Random House and released this week, includes extensive tables of the prices of chemically equivalent drugs. The tables point out enormous differences in price between brand name and generic drugs. Dexedrine, for example, is Smith Kline and French's brand name for the generic drug dextroamphetamine sulfate...
...Smith Kline & French has a patent on dexedrine which ran out after 17 years. Now, as Burack lists them, 16 companies make the generic product, 12 of them for $2.00 or less wholesale per 1000 5 mg. tablets. But dexedrine itself, which is chemically the same thing, sells...
Burack claims in his book that doctors prescribe brand drugs like dexedrine because of advertising pressure from large pharmaceutical concerns like Smith Kline and French which places ads in medical journals and sends agents around to talk to physicians about its products...