Pharmaceutical Association Pays Novelist To Write Horror Story About Importing Drugs

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Pharmaceutical Association Pays Novelist To Write Horror Story About

Importing Drugs From Canada...

 

*The Los Angeles Times* | Michael Hiltzik: | Posted October 27, 2005 09:31

AM

 

Business, like politics, sometimes makes strange bedfellows. But more often

than not, the couples it brings together are perfectly matched.

 

That seemed to be the case when the Pharmaceutical Research and

Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, hooked up with Michael Viner.

 

....According to the proposal, PhRMA would pay Phoenix a six-figure sum for

the marketing and production of a written-to-order fictional thriller. The

plotline was what Hollywood would term high-concept — a group of shadowy

terrorists conspires to murder thousands of Americans by poisoning the

medicine they're importing from Canada to beat U.S. drug prices. (Think

" True Lies " meets the Physicians Desk Reference.)

 

Read the whole article here.

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