Gerald Posner - Big Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic

Mar 08, 2023
Source: https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/cca-iv-big-pharma/big-pharma-and-the-opioid-epidemic

Gerald Posner
Author, Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

The modern pharmaceutical industry has in many ways proved itself a great benefit to mankind, making health- and life-saving drugs and vaccines widely available. But its reputation has come under attack in the wake of America’s opioid epidemic and the COVID pandemic. This fourth and final CCA of the 2022-23 academic year will consider the rise of Big Pharma, its role in the declining state of American health, and ideas for reform.