Over dose
Subtitle: the case against the drug companies : prescription drugs, side effects, and your health
By: Jay S. Cohen.
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Drugs -- Side effects; Pharmaceutical industry
Description: A leading medical researcher shows how Americans are routinely overmedicated--resulting in millions of avoidable side effects--and tells consumers how they can protect their health and the health of their loved ones from the potential dangers of taking too many drugs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Race to the bottom; title: How drug-company policies harm people; title: How drug-company policies cause problems for 50 to 75 percent of patients taking Prozac; title: When new drugs are approved, the experiment is just beginning, and you may be part of it: Viagra; title: How drug-company policies harm women; title: Why 50 to 75 percent of people quit taking their cholesterol-lowering medications; title: Why 50-75 percent of people quit taking their medications for high blood pressure; title: Why seniors are at the greatest risk; title: How the drug companies slant drug research, limit information to doctors and consumers, and secure high profits; title: What the drug companies must do to reverse the side-effect epidemic-but will they?; title: What's wrong with the FDA? And what can be done about it?; title: What the FDA shouldn't do: why we need an independent medication safety monitoring system; title: Doctors, drugs, and patients; title: How to avoid side effects and use medications safely.