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Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
Generation Rx How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives Minds and Bodies Author:Greg Critser Greg Critser"s brilliantly incisive Generation Rx shows how — shockingly little we know about the prescription drugs we take. — Drawing on his years as a journalist covering health issues, Critser — chronicles the transformation of the pharmaceutical industry, from — companies focused on research and development to behemoths bent on — creating "tribe... more »s" of confirmed consumers. Through portraits of individual
patients and remarkably frank?in some cases exclusive?interviews
with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of Glaxo-
SmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, and more, Generation Rx unearths pharma"s
strategies for targeting old and young bodies as the biggest arena for our
great American prescription pill party. And he shines light on polypharmacy,
the largely uncharted terrain in which various drugs taken together
can unleash unanticipated, and often deadly, consequences on unwitting
patients.
Generation Rx urges all of us to think about the price we pay, as a
society and with our own bodies, for our chronic use of prescription