Bitter Pills : The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs
by Hamid Zaman, Muhammad
Published by : Oxford University Press (Karachi) Physical details: 264 Pages 22x14 cm | PB ISBN:9780190700881.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
General Stacks | Non-fiction | 338.476153 H198B 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | 64288 |
Browsing Garrison Public Library Multan Shelves , Shelving location: General Stacks , Collection code: Non-fiction Close shelf browser
| No cover image available | No cover image available | |||||||
| 338.47355 K331E 1975 The Economics of Defence | 338.475 H149S 1963 Science and Politics | 338.4760 K181T 2025 The Technological Republic | 338.476153 H198B 2019 Bitter Pills : The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs | 338.47621 C172S 1984 The State and Nuclear Power : Conflict and Control in the Western World | 338.4767 R1612O 2016 Out of the Shadows? : The Informal Sector in Post-Reform India | 338.47677310941 R149W 1965 The Woollen and Worsted Industry: An Economic Analysis |
Include Illustration and Index
The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use, has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the U.S. drug supply. Today, an estimated 80% of our drugs are manufactured overseas, mostly in India and China. Every link along this supply chain offers an opportunity for counterfeiters, and increasingly, they are breaking in. In 2008, fake doses of the blood thinner Heparin killed 81 people worldwide. In 2012, a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin, containing no active chemotherapy ingredient, was widely distributed in the United States. In early 2013, a drug trafficker was sentenced to prison for distributing an assortment of counterfeit, Chinese-made pharmaceuticals across America. By the time he was arrested, he had already sold over 140,000 fake pills to customers. Even when the U.S. system works, consumers are increasingly circumventing the safeguards. Skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S. have forced more Americans to become "medical tourists" seeking drugs, life-saving treatments, and transplants abroad, sometimes in countries with rampant counterfeit drug problems and no FDA. Bitter Pills will heighten the public's awareness about counterfeit drugs, critically examine possible solutions, and help people protect themselves.
There are no comments for this item.