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. attorney’s 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 the June 5, 1991 issue of The Wall Street . . .