Newsletter Articles | October 31, 1991
Upjohn to Pay Penalty for Handling of Samples
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
Upjohn Company has agreed to pay $600,000 and to stop hand-delivering samples of the drugs Xanax, a tranquilizer and Halcion, a sleeping pill, in a civil settlement regarding violations of federal drug laws. The U.S. attorneys office in Portland, Oregon alleged that Upjohn sales staff failed to record registration numbers and/or recorded the wrong registration numbers, for the samples that were distributed to physicians, according to a report by Jacqueline Mitchell that appeared in . . .