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This two-volume set explores the way the drug companies operate, how they get the drugs to market and how they influence doctors into prescribing them to you. It also pinpoints the most dangerous drugs around and their worrying side effects.

Part one: Dangerous drugs

Over-the-counter drugs

2 OTC drugs: medicine’s dark side
7 Death by aspirin

Drugs for depression

11 The great depression myth
15 The great Prozac conspiracy
19 SSRIs: bad prescribing habits
21 SSRIs: discontinuation syndrome

Drugs for children

23 Kiddie killers
28 Puffers get blown out
29 The kiddie upper takes tumble

Antibiotics

31 Life after antibiotics
35 Antibiotics: definitely not kids’ stuff

Drug-induced disease

36 Medicine and the elderly
40 The damaged brain: how drugs cause dementia
46 Anticholinergic drugs: the stupid pills
47 Diabetes: epidemic by prescription
51 HRT: the latest cancer risk
52 The big ‘cure-all’ unmasked

Part two: Secrets and side-effects

Industry secrets

2 The spin takes the science out of medicine
4 The sour truth about Big Pharma
6 Psychotic prescribing
8 New and not so improved
9 Proton pump inhibitors
10 Drug companies and the pandemic that wasn’t
12 Obesity: making Big Pharma fat
14 Was it ever the drugs?

Dangerous side-effects

16 Zostavax
17 Zetia: hard on the liver
18 Waxing Lyrica on FMS
20 Xolair: a lethal injection?
21 Avastin: bad news for the brain
23 Tamiflu: it’s a killer
24 Stop-smoking drug: suicide link?
25 Cancer drugs cause ‘chemobrain’
26 Building brittle bones
27 Antiepileptics: add suicide to the list
28 Dying to catch your breath
29 Are bisphosphonates the ‘biz’?
30 TNF blockers: a trigger for TB?
31 Cox-2 inhibitors
33 The drugs that do more harm than good

Drug interactions

35 Drugs that persist in the body