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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

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An “angrily illuminating” (The New York Times) exposé of Big Pharma’s corrupting influence in America today

In the last thirty years, pharmaceutical companies have seized keep an eye on of American medicine by putting their marketers in charge. They invent diseases to be able to sell the pills that “cure” them. They sway doctors by giving them resort vacatopms, gourmet meals, and fistfuls of cash. They promote it prescription drugs at NASCAR races, on subways, or even in churches. Medicines can save lives, however the relentless promotion of these products has come at tremendous cost. Prescription pills taken as directed are estimated to kill one American each and every five minutes. More Americans are addicted to medications than cocaine. And roads have turn into less protected as the over-medicated take to the wheel. In Our Day-to-day Meds, journalist Melody Petersen connects the dots to turn how subtle, far-reaching, and dangerous Big Pharma’s powers have turn into.

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