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From statements made about opioid use in Exit Wounds: A Survival Guide to Pain Management for Returning Veterans and Their Families, by Derek McGinnis, an Iraq War veteran. Exit Wounds is one of several…

The Problem of Pain Management

by Simon Liem, Jonah Campbell,

The makers of OxyContin play dirty

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

by Harper’s Magazine,

“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

Everyone’s Gone Nuts

by Meredith Broussard,

The exaggerated threat of food allergies

A spoonful of sugar

by Harper’s Staff,

Risk Management

by Alicia Mundy,

The FDA’s deference to drug companies is bad for America’s health

Big brother’s little helper

by Harper’s Staff,

Oh, How Happy We Will Be

by Greg Critser,

Pills, paradise, and the profits of the drug companies

The Drug Industry’s Bogus Science

by David A. Kessler,

Dealing a new antidepressant

by Greg Critser,

Little pills get a big push onto the market

The strange ethics of the ethical drug industry

by Alek Aron Rozental,