Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in Canada: Permission by default?

David M. Gardner; Barbara Mintzes; Aleck Ostry

Article Information

vol. 169 no. 5 425-427

PubMed

12952804

History

Published online September 2, 2003.

Author Information

David M. Gardner,
Barbara Mintzes,
Aleck Ostry

From the Department of Psychiatry and the College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Gardner); and the Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Mintzes) and of Healthcare and Epidemiology (Ostry) and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (Mintzes,Ostry), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Correspondence to:
Dr. David M. Gardner, QEII HSC, AJLB 3005, 5909 Jubilee Rd., Halifax NS B3H 2E2, fax 902 473-4596; david.gardner{at}dal.ca

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Usage statistics: August 2003 to March 2023

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Aug 2003	0	1	0
Sep 2003	1	1193	463
Oct 2003	0	202	67
Nov 2003	0	195	115
Dec 2003	0	135	123
Jan 2004	1	92	91
Feb 2004	0	130	201
Mar 2004	0	143	223
Apr 2004	0	99	216
May 2004	0	113	117
Jun 2004	0	89	79
Jul 2004	0	95	84
Aug 2004	5	92	68
Sep 2004	0	127	134
Oct 2004	0	186	142
Nov 2004	1	112	140
Dec 2004	1	77	108
Jan 2005	0	104	136
Feb 2005	0	128	170
Mar 2005	0	256	171
Apr 2005	0	205	137
May 2005	0	151	67
Jun 2005	0	182	56
Jul 2005	0	178	47
Aug 2005	0	171	29
Sep 2005	1	280	75
Oct 2005	1	275	93
Nov 2005	1	400	117
Dec 2005	0	174	63
Jan 2009	0	173	70
Feb 2009	0	133	71
Mar 2009	0	278	146
Apr 2009	0	243	108
May 2009	0	141	78
Jun 2009	0	122	55
Jul 2009	0	103	71
Aug 2009	0	91	55
Sep 2009	0	200	138
Oct 2009	0	174	99
Nov 2009	0	304	137
Dec 2009	0	153	49
Jan 2010	0	149	49
Feb 2010	0	202	95
Mar 2010	0	254	176
Apr 2010	0	274	169
May 2010	0	206	86
Jun 2010	0	172	69
Jul 2010	0	172	58
Aug 2010	0	145	40
Sep 2010	0	442	91
Oct 2010	0	290	50
Nov 2010	0	396	86
Dec 2010	0	196	40
Jan 2011	0	176	34
Feb 2011	0	210	48
Mar 2011	0	211	46
Apr 2011	0	126	42
May 2011	0	126	15
Jun 2011	0	98	20
Jul 2011	0	75	25
Aug 2011	0	70	18
Sep 2011	0	138	33
Oct 2011	0	132	41
Nov 2011	0	265	102
Dec 2011	0	122	47
Jan 2012	0	177	52
Feb 2012	0	242	66
Mar 2012	0	398	81
Apr 2012	0	186	51
May 2012	0	141	71
Jun 2012	0	109	46
Jul 2012	0	97	28
Aug 2012	0	71	23
Sep 2012	0	84	23
Oct 2012	0	136	34
Nov 2012	0	177	31
Dec 2012	0	121	25
Jan 2013	0	130	19
Feb 2013	0	156	13
Mar 2013	0	152	38
Apr 2013	0	148	19
May 2013	0	110	20
Jun 2013	0	43	13
Jul 2013	0	57	5
Aug 2013	0	72	9
Sep 2013	0	75	10
Oct 2013	0	119	17
Nov 2013	0	149	36
Dec 2013	0	93	23
Jan 2014	0	92	18
Feb 2014	0	126	37
Mar 2014	0	185	42
Apr 2014	0	111	36
May 2014	0	43	15
Jun 2014	0	75	20
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Aug 2014	0	69	23
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Oct 2014	0	143	9
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Oct 2015	0	70	6
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Feb 2016	0	87	10
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Apr 2016	0	96	14
May 2016	0	78	11
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Jul 2016	0	76	12
Aug 2016	0	99	15
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Mar 2017	0	207	14
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May 2017	0	158	13
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Jul 2017	0	167	3
Aug 2017	0	147	4
Sep 2017	0	215	1
Oct 2017	0	191	19
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Jan 2019	0	92	2
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Apr 2020	0	133	16
May 2020	0	141	12
Jun 2020	0	148	10
Jul 2020	0	238	8
Aug 2020	0	178	8
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Oct 2020	0	248	21
Nov 2020	0	389	24
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Jan 2021	0	182	11
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Oct 2021	0	250	6
Nov 2021	0	133	15
Dec 2021	0	153	1
Jan 2022	0	239	9
Feb 2022	0	327	15
Mar 2022	0	857	33
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May 2022	0	212	11
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Aug 2022	0	160	8
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Oct 2022	0	175	16
Nov 2022	0	382	18
Dec 2022	0	92	8
Jan 2023	0	157	9
Feb 2023	0	107	3
Mar 2023	0	155	14