Over Dose

by Cohen, Jay S.

• ISBN13: 9781585421237
• ISBN10: 1585421235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-15
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

(Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam) Consumer text shows how Americans are being overmedicated, resulting in millions of avoidable side effects, and how consumers can protect their health. Reveals how drug companies slant drug research, skew reported findings, hide unfavorable research, and manipulate the publishing process.

Author Biography

Jay S. Cohen, M.D. is an associate professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

The Race to the Bottom	1	(19)
How Drug-Company Policies Harm People	20	(16)
How Drug-Company Policies Cause Problems for 50 to 75 Percent of Patients Taking Prozac	36	(14)
When New Drugs Are Approved, the Experiment Is Just Beginning, and You May Be Part of It: Viagra	50	(16)
How Drug-Company Policies Harm Women	66	(189)
Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Cholesterol-Lowering Medications	89	(19)
Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Medications for High Blood Pressure	108	(9)
Why Seniors Are at the Greatest Risk	117	(12)
How the Drug Companies Slant Drug Research, Limit Information to Doctors and Consumers, and Secure High Profits	129	(37)
What the Drug Companies Must Do to Reverse the Side-Effect Epidemic--But Will They?	166	(10)
What's Wrong with the FDA? And What Can Be Done About It?	176	(22)
What the FDA Shouldn't Do: Why We Need an Independent Medication Safety Monitoring System	198	(14)
Doctors, Drugs, and Patients	212	(16)
How to Avoid Side Effects and Use Medications Safely	228	(27)
References	255	(54)
Index	309	(10)
About the Author	319