Over Dose

by Cohen, Jay S. (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781585423705
• ISBN10: 158542370X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Tarcherperigree

Summary

An associate professor of Family Preventative Medicine takes on the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that the "acceptable" side affects of many drugs are in fact unnecessary and dangerous. Reprint.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Race to the Bottom	1	(19)
Chapter 2 How Drug-Company Policies Harm People	20	(16)
Chapter 3 How Drug-Company Policies Cause Problems for 50 to 75 Percent of Patients Taking Prozac	36	(14)
Chapter 4 When New Drugs Are Approved, the Experiment Is Just Beginning, and You May Be Part of It: Viagra	50	(16)
Chapter 5 How Drug-Company Policies Harm Women	66	(23)
Chapter 6 Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Cholesterol-Lowering Medications	89	(19)
Chapter 7 Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Medications for High Blood Pressure	108	(9)
Chapter 8 Why Seniors Are at the Greatest Risk	117	(12)
Chapter 9 How the Drug Companies Slant Drug Research, Limit Information to Doctors and Consumers, and Secure High Profits	129	(37)
Chapter 10 What the Drug Companies Must Do to Reverse the Side-Effect Epidemic-But Will They?	166	(10)
Chapter 11 What's Wrong with the FDA? And What Can Be Done About It?	176	(22)
Chapter 12 What the FDA Shouldn't Do: Why We Need an Independent Medication Safety Monitoring System	198	(14)
Chapter 13 Doctors, Drugs, and Patients	212	(16)
Chapter 14 How to Avoid Side Effects and Use Medications Safely	228	(27)
References	255	(54)
Index	309	(10)
About the Author	319