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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Drug makers commonly exaggerate claims, promote unproven uses and underplay medicines' risks when marketing to doctors and customers, according to a report released Wednesday by a national consumer advocacy group.
Doctors and consumers are inundated with false and misleading advertising on television, in print and through literature handed out by drug sales reps, and the Food and Drug Administration is ineffective at stopping the abuses, says the report, which was written by the New Jersey chapter of the Public Interest Research Group.
A trade group representing drug makers said the report relies on outdated and piecemeal data and misleads the public.
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