Main description:

This book is devoted to building up the case that the drug industry has systematically corrupted science to play up the benefits and play down the harms of their drugs. It describes the activities of the drug industry to organised crime.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Confessions from an insider 3. Organised crime, the business model of big pharma 4. Very few patients benefit from the drugs they take 5. Clinical trials, a broken social contract with patients 6. Conflicts of interest at medical journals 7. The corruptive influence of easy money 8. What do thousands of doctors on industry payroll do? 9. Hard sell 10. Impotent drug regulation 11. Public access to data at drug agencies 12. Neurontin, an epilepsy drug for everything 13. Merck, where the patients die first 14. Fraudulent celecoxib trial and other lies 15. Switching cheap drugs to expensive ones in the same patients 16. Blood glucose was fine but the patients died 17. Psychiatry, the drug industry's paradise 18. Pushing children into suicide with happy pills 19. Intimidation, threats and violence to protect sales 20. Busting the industry myths 21. General system failure calls for a revolution 22. Having the last laugh at big pharma