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Americans Are Taking Many Drugs That Don’t Work – Society’s Capital is Making People Sick and the Rich, Richer

Companies and physicians at the FDA are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to bring treatments that don’t work to patients. I detail the problems of the US treatment system in my book, The Medicalization of America. One of the problems is that most prescription drugs don’t work. Bloomberg has a good article on one of …

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