[Ip-health] Alert: NLARx Presents on State Policy, Trade at National Forum

[Sean Flynn]

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November 9, 2009 - For Immediate Release

State Policies Limiting Drug Marketing and Promoting Evidence-Based
Medicine Featured at National Public Health Forum


NLARx Chair David Catania and Executive Director Sharon Treat Featured
in Panels on Drug
Marketing and on Federal Trade Policy on Tuesday


CONTACT:

Sharon Treat, 207-242-8558, streat@reducedrugprices.org
David Catania, 202-724-7772


PHILADELPHIA, November 9, 2009 - State policy on prescription drug
marketing, prescribing and access will be featured in two panels at the
annual meeting of the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
in Philadelphia tomorrow.

More than 13,000 public health professionals meet this week to learn
from experts about cutting-edge research and emerging trends.  They will
have an opportunity to hear from state legislators and policy experts on
prescriber education, limiting drug marketing excesses through
disclosure of gift-giiving and marketing expenditures,  regulation of
drug company salepersons, and trade policy as it affects states and
access to medicine.

NLARx is participating in two panels on Tuesday Nov. 10:

Evidence Based Prescribing and Conflicts of Interest in Drug Policy &
Pharmacy Services



Date & Time: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:30-2:00 PM

Location: Loews, Commonwealth C, Downtown Philadelphia

Speakers:

*	Jennifer Reck, MA, Policy Analyst for Prescription Policy
Choices: "Advancing Evidence-Based Prescribing to Improve Health Care"
(prescriber education efforts in the states, and federal investments in
prescriber education)

*         Hon. David Catania, Esq. NLARx Chair, and Councilmember at
Large, District of Columbia: "The District of Columbia's Responses to
Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices" (marketing costs, academic detailing
early successes, drug detailer licensure)

*         Hon. Sharon Treat, Esq, NLARx Executive Director and Maine
State Representative: "State Policies to Reduce the Cost and Medical
Impacts of Excessive Drug Marketing" (state policies on data mining,
gift bans and payment transparency, social media marketing to kids,
electronic software privacy & conflicts of interest)

A New Trade Agreement on Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement?

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 3:10 PM (Part of Session
4324.0, Mechanisms Through Which Trade Influences Health, 2:30 -4:00 PM)

Where: Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 107A.

Speaker: Hon. Sharon Treat, Esq, NLARx Executive Director and Maine
State Representative



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About the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices

NLARX is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of state legislators
from across the country working to lower prescription drug costs and
improve access to affordable medicines. Members include legislators from
states in all regions of the country, from New England to Alaska and
Hawaii and the District of Columbia. For more information and to sign up
for our bi-weekly newsletter, visit our website at
www.reducedrugprices.org.









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