On AlterNet: prescription drugs

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "prescription drugs"

Drug Company Profiteering, Pill Mills and Thousands of Addicts: How Oxycontin Has Spread Through America

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. June 30, 2011.

Corruption down the line, from Big Pharma to doctors and the war on drugs, builds a growing epidemic and an addiction-fueled empire.

Over-Prescribed: How Taking Too Many Pills is Hurting Americans

Cory Franklin, The Guardian. June 22, 2011.

Aggressive marketing pushes drugs on patients well beyond clinical usefulness, and it's thinning their wallets and threatening their health.

100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies Get Rich

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. June 25, 2010.

Prescription drugs taken as directed kill 100,000 Americans a year. That's one person every five minutes. How did we get here?

America's Gone Nuts on Prescription Drugs

Denis Leary, AlterNet. May 11, 2010.

If you're sitting at the blackjack table wearing an adult diaper with a face the size of Elvis's ass and a four-hour erection, maybe it's time to cut down on the pills.

Rep. Mike Ross, Opponent of Public Option, Raises Eyebrows With Healthy Haul From Pharmacy Chain

Marcus Stern, ProPublica. September 23, 2009.

One-fifth of his constituents have no health insurance, and more than half want a public option, but Blue Dog Mike Ross has held fast against it. Could a sweetheart deal be why?

How Pharma Giants Are Getting Rich By Calling Our Life Problems 'Medical Disorders'

Eugenia Tsao, CounterPunch. August 21, 2009.

Pharma companies have waded into helping us with life problems far beyond the biological -- they claim to cure our social maladies.

No One Deserves to Die by Overdose

Jill Harris, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.

We must learn how to reduce the harms from drug use, including reducing the unconscionable and unnecessary number of deaths from overdose.

Obama vs. McCain: Medical Bills, Drug Prices and Access to Health Care -- Voter Guide

AlterNetOctober 17, 2008.

Find out how the candidates compare on health insurance, prescription drugs, obesity, veterans' health and more.

Priced Out of Prescription Drugs

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future. August 25, 2008.

Reducing drug industry influence is critical to bringing skyrocketing prescription drug and health care costs under control.

How Big Pharma Is Fooling You -- and Your Doctor -- with Junk Science

Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. August 11, 2008.

To the pharmaceutical industry, "research" is just a code-word for "smart-sounding marketing."

Overdose Death Rate Surges, Legal Drugs Are Mostly to Blame

Drug War ChronicleMarch 21, 2008.

Oxycontin, Lorcet, and other pain control drugs are the leading cause of the tens of thousands of annual drug overdoses -- why the silence?

Prescription Drugs, Not Illegal Ones, Killed Heath Ledger

Scott Thill, AlterNet. February 14, 2008.

The media pounced on his admitted love of weed and coke but did little to investigate the prescription drugs that did him in.

America's Love-Hate Relationship with Drugs

deleted, AlterNet. January 9, 2008.

Many prescription drugs have effects similar to those of illegal drugs. But we still view some users as criminals -- the others as patients.

Corruption & Insiderism Eroding the Conservative Coalition

David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2007.

David Sirota: The Right goes to war...with itself.