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    Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
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    Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
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    Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
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    Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply

    By Katherine Eban

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    An investigation into crime and corruption that offers “a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry” (Buzz Bissinger).
     
    Stolen, tainted, and compromised counterfeit medicine has increasingly made its way into a poorly regulated distribution system—reaching vulnerable and unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on it. The heart of the problem lies in South Florida—and Dangerous Doses exposes it through a “ragtag group of seasoned investigators who seem as if they were cast right out of an episode of The Wire” (U.S. News & World Report).
     
    In Katherine Eban’s hard-hitting examination of America’s secret ring of drug counterfeiters, these tireless investigators follow the trail of medication, stolen in a seemingly minor break-in, as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress, as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America’s health.
     
    Eban’s revelatory and damning crusade “combines investigative diligence, a natural storyteller’s gift for narrative, and a consumer advocate’s practical prescriptions for what to do about the counterfeit drugs that may have contaminated the supply at your local drug store. The result: A rare literary event—muckraking with a human face” (Victor Navasky, former publisher of The Nation).
     
    “An exposé that wades into more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel, and easily boasts three times the number of sleazebag villains.” —Salon.com
     
    “A riveting tale . . . part detective story, part pharmacological primer.” —The New York Sun
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 1, 2006
    ISBN9780547538532
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    Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
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    Katherine Eban

    Katherine Eban is a Rhodes Scholar with an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has been covering medical fraud and health care issues for The Nation, The New Republic, Playboy, The New Yorker, Vogue, Glamour, and the New York Times Magazine. She worked as an investigations reporter for the New York Times, the New York Observer, and has been a contributing editor to New York Magazine. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and Newfoundland puppy named Lola.

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      Reads like a piece of fiction, unfortunately it's not.