The contradictions of our pill-popping ways…
Posted in Hard to Swallow on 17 February 2008
A TELLING EXCERPT: “Doesn’t a drug have to be proven safe before the FDA allows it on the market?” CBS correspondent Scott Pelley asked medical researcher Dr. Dennis Mangano on 60 Minutes tonight.
“No,” he replied …
Posted in Down on the Pharm, Medication Nation on 1 February 2008
SIX DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS in one person’s apartment!? It’s hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger’s drug inventory was made public. In this pillophile nation of ours-where four billion prescriptions are dispensed a year and over 51 million people ingest more than three meds daily—six is hardly outrageous. Certainly not as outrageous as …
