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by at-fates-hands 3518 days ago
As someone who did Phrama testing in college to help pay my way through school, compensation would be determined by how long the study went on, which the article failed to say:

"It was a pretty big study; they gave shots to 320 men every eight weeks, in different countries around the world."

Every eight weeks, but for how long?

In my experience, it would probably be in the neighborhood of a few thousand dollars, but not much more. For the participants, even that much money to take some pills over the course of say a few months would probably be seen as easy money.

But then again, there's those pesky side effects.

FYI: All the drugs I tested were already FDA approved and were not considered in a "trial" phase.