Foreword by Richard Smith. Foreword by Drummond Rennie. About the author. Introduction. Confessions from an insider. Asthma deaths were caused by asthma inhalers. Shady marketing and research. Organised crime, the business model of big pharma. Hoffman-La Roche, the biggest drug pusher. Hall of Shame for big pharma. The crimes are repetitive. It's organised crime. Very few patients benefit from the drugs they take. Clinical trials, a broken social contract with patients. Conflicts of interest at medical journals. The corruptive influence of easy money. What do thousands of doctors on industry payroll do? Seeding trials. Rent a key opinion leader to 'give advice'. Rent a key opinion leader to 'educate'. Hard sell. Clinical trials are marketing in disguise. Ghostwriting. The marketing machine. Hard sell ad nauseam. Highly expensive drugs. Excesses in hypertension. Patient organisations. NovoSeven for bleeding soldiers. Impotent drug regulation. Conflicts of interest at drug agencies. Corruption at drug agencies. The unbearable lightness of politicians. Drug regulation builds on trust. Inadequate testing of new drugs. Too many warnings and too many drugs. Public access to data at drug agencies. Our breakthrough at the EMA in
2010. Access to data at other drug agencies. Deadly slimming pills. Neurontin, an epilepsy drug for everything. Merck, where the patients die first. Fraudulent celecoxib trial and other lies. Marketing is harmful. Switching cheap drugs into expensive ones in the same patients. Novo Nordisk switches patients to expensive insulin. Astra-Zeneca switches patients to expensive me-again omeprazole. Blood glucose was fine but the patients died. Novo Nordisk interferes with an academic publication. Psychiatry, the drug industry's paradise. Are we all crazy or what? Psychiatrists as drug pushers. The chemical imbalance hoax. Screening for psychiatric disorders. Unhappy pills. Prozac, a terrible Eli Lilly drug turned into a blockbuster. Exercise is a good intervention. Further lies about happy pills. Pushing children into suicide with happy pills. Glaxo study
329. Concealing suicides and suicide attempts in clinical trials. Lundbeck's evergreening of citalopram. Antipsychotic drugs. Zyprexa, another terrible Eli Lilly drug turned into a blockbuster. The bottomline of psychotropic drugs. Intimidation and threats to protect sales. Busting the industry myths. General system failure calls for a revolution. Our drugs kill us. How much medicine do we really need and at what cost? For-profit is the wrong model. Clinical trials. Drug regulatory agencies. Drug formulary and guideline committees. Drug marketing. Doctors and their organisations. Patients and their organisations. Medical journals. Journalists. Having the last laugh at big pharma. Money don't smell. Creating diseases. Index.