Listen To NPR's Show on the Drug Industry

I recommend that you listen to this morning's NPR program, "On Point," with Tom Ashbrook, which featured an interview with Melody Peterson, author of the devastating new book, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. I was brought on toward the end of the program to participate in the discussion.

Melody Peterson is a former reporter for the New York Times, and she spent the last 4 years researching the pharmaceutical industry. Many of the revelations in the book will be quite familiar to those reading this blog, but her research is so extensive that it is worth reading. You can read an excerpt of the book here. And you can listen to the show here.