Side Effects A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

Name: Side Effects A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
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ISBN: 9781565125537

ISBN-10: 1565125533

ISBN-13: 9781565125537

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alison Bass

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As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Alison Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research stunned readers, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiatrists earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Now she turns her investigative skills to a controversial case that exposed the increased suicide rates among adolescents taking antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft. Side Effects tells the tale of a gutsy assistant attorney general who, along with an unlikely whistle-blower at an Ivy League university, uncovered evidence of deception behind one of the most successful drug campaigns in history. Paxil was the world's bestselling…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 6/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Alison Bass has covered medicine, science, and technology for the Boston Globe and other publications, including the Miami Herald, Psychology Today, and Technology Review. She has received top media awards from the National Mental Health Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and an Associated Press First Place Award. She has taught journalism courses at Boston and Brandeis universities and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.



Author's Note


Prologue: 2004



Martin Teicher and the Wonder Drugs, 1988-89



Rose Firestein v. New York City, 1989



Donna Howard's Quest to Help Her Adopted Daughter, 1990



The Empire Strikes Back, September 1991



Rose Firestein's Big Gamble: Suing the Pharmaceutical Industry, June 2004



The Brown Connection, 1995



Donna Howard Talks to the Press and Becomes a Pariah, January 1996



The Humiliation of Martin Teicher, October 1996



Eliot Spitzer's Crusaders Win Round One against GlaxoSmithKline but Get Knocked Off Course in Round Two, July 2004



A Tale of Two Psychiatrists Named Martin, Spring 1998



Tonya Brooks Becomes a Nomad, and Rose Firestein Fights to Protect Florida's Foster Children, 2000-2001



Donna Howard Discovers That in the Nonprofit World of Patient Advocacy, Money Shouts, Fall 2002



Rose Firestein Begins Probing the Paxil Puzzle, Summer 2003



Rose Firestein's Epiphany, Winter 2004



How Rose Firestein Found the Smoking Gun Memo and Converted the Skeptics, Spring 2004



The New York AG v. GlaxoSmithKline, June 2004



Wherein Rose Firestein Goes to Court and Annoys a Federal Judge, July 2004



GlaxoSmithKline Comes to the Table, August 2004



Martin Teicher Is Vindicated, and Rose Firestein Takes a Bow, Fall 2004


Epilogue: Rose Firestein Gets Run Over and Survives, and Donna Howard Turns Out to Have Been Right All Along


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