&gt; The company invited doctors to dinner seminars and flew them to weekend junkets at resort hotels, where they were encouraged to prescribe OxyContin and promote it to colleagues back home.<p>This is just plain wrong. Pharmaceutical companies shouldn&#x27;t be permitted to use this kind of &#x27;bribery&#x27;.<p>Is this just a US thing? I may be wrong, but I&#x27;m pretty sure this kind of behaviour is not permitted across Europe.