Comprehensive guide to more than 6,000 brand name drugs and 1,000 generic drugs with information on dangerous interactions and side effects.

Argues that doctors are deliberately misinformed by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies who withhold information about drug efficacy and side effects, explaining pharmaceutical data manipulation and its consequences.

Discusses drug use among teens, including physical effects, addiction, various types of drugs, prevention, treatments for abuse, and sociological impacts.

"Do antidepressants actually work, or are they just glorified dummy pills? How can we tell one way or the other?In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer addresses the growing mistrust of antidepressants among the medical establishment and the broader public by taking the long view. He charts the history of the drugs' development and the research that tests their worth, from the Swiss psychiatrist Roland Kuhn's pioneering...

A narrative investigation into the generic drug boom draws on exclusive accounts and extensive confidential FDA documents to expose life-threatening practices of global fraud, data manipulation, and unsafe medicine production.

Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has cost more than 60,000 lives in six years. The author explains in detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet.

"Tella Grant likes to be in control--even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn't...