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PharmFree


PharmFree is a campaign of the American Medical Student Association, in collaboration with No Free Lunch, to organize political activism challenging the practice of pharmaceutical gifting to students and physicians. It was started in 2002.

AMSA established PharmFree for reasons including:

AMSA sponsors an annual National PharmFree Week, wherein discussion of pharmaceutical marketing tactics, film screenings, panel discussions, residency fairs and new campaign launches take place. PharmFree Week serves to allow medical students, residents and physicians alike to speak out against marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry which are perceived as biased.[1]

PharmFree launched its Counterdetailing Initiative in 2005, at its annual PharmFree Day event, with the intent of:


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