Pharma: Pills, Profits, and the Coming Pandemic Audiobook (Free)

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and journalist Gerald Posner brings to life the heroes and villains from the pharmaceutical industry and how a business meant to save lives is steeped in problem and reckless profiteering—with deadly outcomes.

Pharmaceutical breakthroughs represent a number of the ideal advancements in history. But, a raging opioid epidemic and soaring drug prices have added to an unparalleled break down in trust between your public and the about Pharma: Pills, Profits, as well as the Coming Pandemic pharmaceutical market, demanding a nationwide reckoning with how miraculous promises are marketed.

At the guts of Pharma, may be the story of the fourteen-billion-dollar family that founded the business most responsible for America’s deadly opioid crisis. Gerald Posner traces the Sacklers’ tranquil rise to power, a company buried under a byzantine web of interlocking companies with ever changing titles and concealed owners. The Sackler family members provides a vibrant case study from the ethical lapses and the reckless profiteering that characterize much of Big Pharma.

Over the last thirty years, the industry has mostly abandoned research for new antibiotics while concentrating on higher profit medicines that treat chronic illnesses. As a result, many scientists believe Big Pharma offers unwittingly made the starting for another worldwide pandemic. Pharma attracts on a large number of federal government and commercial archives to expose an industry that sits at the intersection of open public health and profits.