The Truth About the Drug Companies Quotes

“Once upon a time, drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases. Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit their drugs.”
― Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

“No wonder big pharma will do almost anything to protect exclusive marketing rights, despite the fact that doing so flies in the face of all its rhetoric about the free market.”
― Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

“As an example, companies would require researchers to compare a new drug with a placebo (sugar pill) instead of with an older drug.”
― Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

“I AM INDEBTED ABOVE ALL TO DR. ARNOLD S. (Bud) Relman, with whom I share my life. Together we wrote an extended article about the pharmaceutical industry called “America’s Other Drug Problem—The Insatiable Greed of the Pharmaceutical Industry.” It was published in the December 16, 2002, issue of The New Republic, and received the 2002 George Polk Award for magazine reporting. In outline, the pres-ent book largely follows that article.”
― Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It