{"id":9517,"date":"2025-10-20T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:46:41","slug":"detailing-and-the-origins-of-dtca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/?p=9517","title":{"rendered":"Dose of History &#8211; Detailing and the Origins of DTCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-baef362d wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.1-valiumedited.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aihp.omeka.net\/items\/show\/742\">Valium advertisement from AIHP&#8217;s Mickey Smith Drug Advertising Collection<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-095.2-valium-edited.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Advertisement for Valium, (diazepam), manufactured by Roche Laboratories. The ad appeared in the journal Medical Economics on January 1, 1980.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-baef362d wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.1-miltownedited.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aihp.omeka.net\/items\/show\/684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miltown advertisement from AIHP&#8217;s Mickey Smith Drug Advertising Collection<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Copy-of-msdac-055.2-miltownedited.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Advertisement for Miltown (meprobamate), manufactured by Wallace Pharmaceuticals. The ad appeared in the journal Medical Economics on January 9, 1967.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From the 1930s to the 1980s, ads for drugs were aimed almost exclusively at pharmacists and physicians. Typically, advertising was conducted in one of two ways: ads were placed in magazines directed at pharmacists or they were sold in-person by pharmaceutical marketing representatives, commonly known as detailers or detailmen. Detailers were (and still are) a fixture of the medical industry, but opinions of them have been mixed. One humorous article published in the <em>New York Physician<\/em> around 1957 features several bothersome detailman archetypes, including \u201cThe Teacher\u201d who \u201cunderstands at once that we were poorly prepared at Medical School and that we have never read a scientific journal or attended a meeting since graduation\u201d and \u201cThe Patriot\u201d who swears by the product he is selling to an excessive degree. However, many physicians seemed to trust detailers as providers of medical information. In 1954 one doctor wrote in <em>The Bulletin<\/em>, a magazine aimed at physicians, that detailers are \u201cby and large, fine fellows\u201d who provide information that a doctor would not care to read had it arrived by mail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:46px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By the 1970s, detailmen were becoming increasingly innovative in their marketing techniques. In addition to providing information about the drugs they were selling, they also began to provide free merchandise that had the labels of certain drugs or companies printed on it. Mugs, pens, pocket protectors, and various other knickknacks were all manufactured for this purpose. This practice fell out of favor in 2009 after the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America\u2013a prominent pharmaceutical trade organization\u2013imposed a voluntary ban on the basis that gift giving may influence prescribing habits. However, this ban did not impose restrictions on non-physical gifts, and it remained common for detailers to provide free meals in exchange for an opportunity to pitch a certain drug, although this varied widely depending on state law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-baef362d wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a-763x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a-763x1024.jpg 763w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a-768x1031.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.9.1a.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm17532.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/mmadalon\/id\/29\/rec\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pocket protector promoting Empirin and Sudafed from AIHP&#8217;s Michael Madalon Artifact Collection.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a-786x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox2.foxtrotdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024.4.17.1a.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm17532.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/mmadalon\/id\/19\/rec\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pocket protector promoting four drugs from Ross Laboratories from AIHP&#8217;s Michael Madalon Artifact Collection.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:61px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the 1980s, a combination of factors\u2013including the growing prevalence of televisions in American households and a healthcare system which was increasingly prioritizing the patients\u2019 decisions over the authority of physicians\u2013contributed to the emergence of direct-to-consumer advertising, or DTCA. With regards to regulation this was uncharted territory, and the FDA called for a voluntary moratorium on DTCA in 1983 but did not ban it outright. An article from <em>The Consumer<\/em>, a magazine published by the FDA, provides some insight into what they were thinking. Both sides of the argument were presented: \u201cthe ads could result in a more informed consumer who would make better use of drugs\u201d, or it could \u201cmake people ask for drugs they really don\u2019t want or need\u201d. According to the article some pharmaceutical companies such as Merck\u2013which engaged in one of the first DTCA campaigns in 1981\u2013shared this ambivalence, believing DTCA should be used \u201conly in rare instances\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ultimately, the FDA resolved not to devise any additional regulations on DTCA. However, old regulations which stipulated drug advertising provide consumers with a \u201cfair balance\u201d of information still applied. For the most part, these requirements made DTCA unviable for many companies as they required an excessively large block of time to be purchased from television networks in order to list all the potential side effects. In the late 1990s, however, the FDA relaxed these regulations, largely due to pressure from drug manufacturers. Advertisers could now provide a summarized list of potential side effects or provide a toll-free number where prospective patients could get more information if desired. This update in legislation was followed by an explosion in DTCA: in 2005, $4.6 billion was spent on DTCA compared to just $340 million in 1995. Since 2009, the spending in DTCA has remained steady at around $6 billion annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This <strong>Dose of History <\/strong>was brought to you by AIHP Intern, Leo Ryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bibliography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donohue, Julie. \u201cA History of Drug Advertising: The Evolving Roles of Consumers and Consumer Protection.\u201d <em>The Milbank Quarterly<\/em> 84, no. 4 (2006): 659\u201399. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25098137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foster, Paul D. \u201cThe Doctor and the Detail Man.\u201d <em>The Bulletin<\/em>, August 19, 1954. 924-925. Accessed through the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy\u2019s archives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris, Gardener. \u201cDrug Industry to Announce Revised Code on Marketing\u201d. <em>New York Times<\/em>, July 10, 2008. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/10\/business\/10code.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller, Roger W. \u201cWould Rx Ads Make People Learn Or Yearn?\u201d <em>The Consumer<\/em>, October, 1983. 25-27. Accessed through the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrescription Drugs: Medicare Spending on Drugs with Direct-to-Consumer Advertising\u201d. <em>Government Accountability Office<\/em>, 2021. https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-21-380.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posner, Lewis and Posner, A. Charles. \u201cDetail Man Dystocia, or Just Give Us The Facts.\u201d <em>New York Physician<\/em>. c. 1950. Accessed through the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ventola, C. Lee. \u201cDirect-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: Therapeutic or Toxic?\u201d <em>Pharmacy and Therapeutics<\/em>, 36, no. 10 (2011): 681-684. https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC3278148\/#sec5.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 1930s to the 1980s, ads for drugs were aimed almost exclusively at pharmacists and physicians. Typically, advertising was conducted in one of two ways: ads were placed in magazines directed at pharmacists or they were sold in-person by pharmaceutical marketing representatives, commonly known as detailers or detailmen. 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