The Economics of Psychotropic Drug Development

Joseph A. DiMasi and Louis Lasagna
Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Tufts University
192 South Street, Suite 550
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 636-2116
Fax: (617) 636-2425
e-mail: jdimasi@infonet.tufts.edu



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