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Book SynopsisAward-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers ';a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients (The New York Times Book Review).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 with a monolithic industry.
';Gerald's dogged reporting, sets
Pharma apart from all books on this subject' (
The Washington Standard) as we are introduced to brilliant scientists, incorruptible government regulators, and brave
Trade Review“A withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients . . .
Pharma reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers."
—New York Times Book Review“New information, coupled with Gerald’s dogged reporting, sets
Pharma apart from all books on this subject.”
—The Washington Standard“Gerald Posner’s unsettling book, five years in the making and buttressed by a trove of documentation, is not only a careful history, it’s also a staggering indictment of pharmaceutical companies. . . . Very readable.”
—Christian Science Monitor“Compelling and enraging . . . An encyclopedic act of reporting.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Explosively, even addictively, readable . . . Fraud, incompetence, conspiracy, avarice: it’s all here.”
—Booklist (starred review)“You know the old saying: Timing is everything. That is certainly the case with Gerald Posner . . . . The timing of
Pharma is extraordinary.”
—Dallas Morning News"I could not put down Gerald Posner’s
Pharma, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans—then blamed the so-called 'abusers' instead of their own highly addictive drug. Posner has unearthed important new material that illuminates our national tragedy, crafting a meticulously reported page-turner that is as juicy as it is clear-eyed."
—Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick"A shocking, rousing condemnation of an industry clearly in need of better policing."
—Kirkus "Posner has created a medical leviathan for our times."
—LitHub
