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The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer: How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation's drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why do those decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls?\u003cbr\u003e Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. 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Do some of them have dangerous, undisclosed side effects? Why are they so expensive, even unaffordable?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA leading medical expert provides a clear-headed, dispassionate understanding of life-and-death questions that have suddenly become so contentious. Groundbreaking research has given us many remarkable new drugs to treat conditions that have plagued patients for generations. But at the same time America’s drug evaluation process, once the envy of the world, is being seriously undermined.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and politicians, the Food and Drug Administration has lowered its approval standards to allow new medicines onto the market without the rigorous assessment that once made it the global gold standard for medication regulation. 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How can we be sure?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy is my prescription so expensive? Is it worth what it costs? Who determines that price? Why does the US pay twice as much as other countries for the same medicines?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith new leadership at FDA, CDC, NIH, and the whole Department of Health and Human Services, who decides these life-and-death questions for the nation, and how well are they doing their jobs?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e…and finally: how do all these issues affect the choices that patients and doctors make every day?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking Medications \u003c\/i\u003edraws on Dr. Avorn’s long experience as a clinician, outspoken patient advocate, and the founder of an internationally respected research group at Harvard. He illustrates this accessible and entertaining account with examples from cancer drugs to opioids, from treatments for rare diseases to psychedelics. 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