DANGEROUS DOSES: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply
Katherine Eban, . . Harcourt, $25 (462pp) ISBN 978-0-15-101050-9
It's hard to imagine that, with the U.S. government's oversight of the development and production of pharmaceuticals, the pills you get from your pharmacist may be counterfeit. But according to medical reporter Eban, those pills often pass through dozens of hands, exchanged in dark parking lots and the backrooms of strip clubs for thousands of dollars in cash, possibly resold and relabeled several times. It might contain a twentieth of the dosage written on the label, or nothing but tap water. Eban, formerly with the
Reviewed on: 03/14/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 512 pages - 978-0-15-603085-4