Doctors used as 'guinea pigs' in opioid painkiller promotion "Everybody said, 'It's fantastic going to New York. It's like being on a film set.' So, that was very exciting for me."
Dr Cathy Stannard was one of a group of UK pain specialists flown to New York in the early 2000s.
They had stayed in a smart hotel, eaten in upscale restaurants and attended Broadway shows, she told BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme - all courtesy of a pharmaceutical company.
The trip had been presented as an educational package, an opportunity to meet "international thought leaders" from the world of pain management, she said.
She had known the company footing the bill manufactured opioid painkillers.
But she had not known that, around that time, some pharmaceutical companies would monitor the prescribing rates of the individual doctors who attended such paid-for trips, deliberately targeting those they thought they could influence. BBC News
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