Our Daily Meds How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs |
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| Author:
| Petersen, Melody |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-42825-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
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An "angrily illuminating" (The New York Times)exposé of Big Pharma's corrupting influence inAmerica today In the last thirty years, pharmaceutical companies have seized control of American medicine by putting their marketers in charge. They invent diseases in order to sell the pills that "cure" them. They sway doctors by giving them resort vacatopms, gourmet meals, and fistfuls of cash. They advertise prescription drugs...
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An "angrily illuminating" (The New York Times)exposé of Big Pharma's corrupting influence inAmerica today
In the last thirty years, pharmaceutical companies have seized control of American medicine by putting their marketers in charge. They invent diseases in order to sell the pills that "cure" them. They sway doctors by giving them resort vacatopms, gourmet meals, and fistfuls of cash. They advertise prescription drugs at NASCAR races, on subways, and even in churches. Medicines can save lives, but the relentless promotion of these products has come at tremendous cost. Prescription pills takenas directed are estimated to kill one American every five minutes. More Americans are addicted to medications than cocaine. And roads have become less safe as the over-medicated take to the wheel. InOur Daily Meds, journalist Melody Petersen connects the dots to show how subtle, far-reaching, and dangerous Big Pharma's powers have become.