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Curing the Disobedient Patient: Medication Adherence Programs as Pharmaceutical Marketing Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Matt Lamkin  and
Carl Elliott
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About a week after Maran Wolston was prescribed Copaxone, a drug for multiple sclerosis (MS), she got a phone call from a nurse at an organization called Shared Solutions. The organization was familiar to Wolston; when her neurologist had asked permission to share her health information with Shared Solutions, Wolston had agreed, assuming it was connected to her health insurance.

The nurse who called Wolston was checking in to see how the treatment was going. It was not going well. While Copaxone is not typically associated with some of the unpleasant side effects of other MS drugs, it does have at least one serious drawback: the drug must be injected every day. The injections can be brutally painful. “No matter where I injected the drug each day, the injection site swelled up into a huge welt and felt like a gigantic bee sting,” Wolston writes.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , Winter 2014 , pp. 492 - 500
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2014

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