This is Your Brain on Drug Industry Money

Read the whole story here. Dr. Carlat tells all, or at least most.

D'you think the devil made him do it? Or the money?

Dr. Daniel Carlat made $30,000 spinning Wyeth's Effexor XR to other doctors. Wyeth gave him slides, info, and paid for him to go to a speaker's seminar. Carlat made $500 for every "Lunch and Learn" talk he gave around town...$750 if he had to drive an hour to do it. Wyeth flew him around to other places, wined and dined him, and basically pimped him out. Now he says he maybe oughtn't have done it. But he kept the $30,000. His story is worth reading. Wyeth says they follow "guidelines"...those of "the industry" and their own, when it comes to compensating docs for spinning, er, speaking fees.

Any Whistleblowers know more?