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Vanderbes, Jennifer

Summary: "When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.78 VAN

Brody, Howard.

Contents: The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications -- An ethical framework -- The pharmaceutical industry and the free market -- Patents, generic drugs, and academic science -- Research and profits -- Suppression of research data -- The quality of pharmaceutical research -- The drug rep: historical background -- The drug rep today -- The influence of drug reps: what the data show --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.2 BRO

Posner, Gerald L.

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 POS

Hampton, Ryan

Summary: "Unsettled is the inside story of Purdue's excruciating Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company's eventual restructuring, and the Sackler family's evasion of any true accountability. It's also the untold story of how a group of determined ordinarypeople tried to see justice done against the odds-and in the face of brutal opposition from powerful institutions and even government...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 HAM

Summary: It is filmmaker Chris Bell's (Bigger Stronger Faster) hard-hitting and thought-provoking expose of Big Pharma, its marketing practices and their impact on the staggering level of addiction to prescription drugs in North America. Executive Produced by Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley, this documentary is compelling viewing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRE

Summary: Director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately , himself. As he learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016

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