How safe are the drugs you're taking? A leading medical researcher shows how Americans are being overmedicated, resulting in millions of avoidable side effects, and how consumers can protect their health.
In late 1999, a headline in the New York Times read 'Too Much Of Good Thong? Doctor Challenges Drug Manual'. The article described Dr Jay S Cohen's new report maintaining that the recommended doses in the 'Physician's Desk Reference' are too high for many people and are causing a slew of unnecessary adverse reactions, "ranging from dizziness and nausea all the way to death".
The problem, reports Dr Cohen in this vital book, stems not only from poor research on the part of the drug companies, but from a deliberate effort to create easy, one-size-fits-all dosages that both appeal to doctors and produce artificially inflated effectiveness statistics.
In this book, Dr Cohen does more than expose big drug company misdeeds - he shows consumers exactly how to monitor and control their own drug intake.
