#125 - Gerald Posner on PHARMA

Published: April 22, 2021, 12:39 p.m.

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Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Gerald Posner chats with Trey Elling about PHARMA: GREED, LIES, AND THE POISONING OF AMERICA, including: the pharmaceutical industry\'s lawless beginnings in the mid-1800s, their initial lack of enthusiasm about antibiotics, Arthur Sackler as the godfather of pharma\'s manipulative marketing practices, the harmful ways women were exploited in the 1960s and \'70s, the groundwork that led to an opioid crisis, how the Sacklers built their Purdue Pharma empire with OxyContin, and much more.

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