"There's been an explosion of off-label drug use in the years since I left."

The issue of off-label marketing is controversial in the drug industry.

However, there is often extensive medical literature to support the off-label use.

Drug companies may not promote or market drugs for off-label uses.

Also, they may question how many off-label treatments are not covered by insurance.

The pharmaceutical company isn't allowed to give you medicine for an off-label use.

Within 5 years the drug was being widely used for the off-label treatment of pain and psychiatric conditions.

"The off-label debate: a threat to the future of cancer care."

One estimate put the percentage of off-label prescriptions at 80%.

But experts say such "off-label" use of the drugs can be risky.

"The insurance company will decline to pay, because that is considered experimental or off-label use of drugs."

It also began a campaign to promote off-label sales based on the Austrian study.

But doctors had also started using it off-label as a chronic treatment for patients not hospitalized.

In general, such methods may hold important opportunities for off-label use of existing approved drugs.

Q: How can I get an off-label treatment paid for by my insurance?

The practice, called "off-label" prescribing, is entirely legal and very common.

Such off-label use of approved medications is legal and commonplace in American medicine.

But experts expect doctors to begin prescribing it quickly for "off-label" uses.

In the meantime, cancer doctors can use Aranesp on an off-label basis.

Actimmune's sales represent an extreme case of what is known as off-label use.

However, off-label prescriptions in older patients are not uncommon.

High-level executives sat on the committee which devised the off-label sales scheme.

Back then Sam actually owned the places and we carried a lot of obscure, off-label classical content.

There is no doubt that off-label use of drugs is big business for the pharmaceutical industry.

It has been estimated that more than half of all prescriptions written nationwide are for off-label uses.