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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
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Publisher
Jeff Hays Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Reveals the tactics of people who influence medical doctors' health care advice to patients and parents for such conditions as chronic pain, autism, Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, frozen shoulder syndrome, cancer, and others. Examines chiropractic and other complementary and alternative health care treatment options, and discusses the case brought against the American Medical Association by a chiropractor.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Description
This book moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, Critser asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos, and brand loyalties? How have powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, become substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not? How did we come to hate drug companies but love their...
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"American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the...
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