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"Exorbitant prices for lifesaving 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 pharmaceutical companies. Now, Americans are demanding national reckoning with a monolithic industry. In Pharma, award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Gerald Posner uncovers the real story of the Sacklers, the family that became one of America's wealthiest from the success of OxyContin, their blockbuster narcotic painkiller at the centure of the opioid crisis. The unexpected twists and turns of the Sakler family saga are told against the startling chronicle of a powerful industry that sits at the intersection of public health and profits. Pharma reveals how and why American drug companies have put earnings ahead of patients"--
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Pharma, Gerald Posner
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- 2021
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- Titel
- Pharma
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gerald Posner
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 816
- ISBN10
- 1501152033
- ISBN13
- 9781501152030
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Handel, Wirtschaft & Management, Wirtschaft & Management, Medizin & Gesundheit, Medizin & Gesundheit, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft, Gesundheit
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- "Exorbitant prices for lifesaving 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 pharmaceutical companies. Now, Americans are demanding national reckoning with a monolithic industry. In Pharma, award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Gerald Posner uncovers the real story of the Sacklers, the family that became one of America's wealthiest from the success of OxyContin, their blockbuster narcotic painkiller at the centure of the opioid crisis. The unexpected twists and turns of the Sakler family saga are told against the startling chronicle of a powerful industry that sits at the intersection of public health and profits. Pharma reveals how and why American drug companies have put earnings ahead of patients"--