Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

This book (with relevance to the psychiatry’s prescribing of psychotropic drugs on a massive scale) has been written by investigative journalist Melody Petersen. The publishers say:

“In an odyssey into the dark side of American medicine, an award-winning journalist reveals how the large pharmaceutical companies have used slick marketing techniques to promote dangerous medications to American physicians and consumers, examining how this promotion-driven industry has transformed the practice of medicine and damaged American life.”

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