- Hardcover: 374 pages
- Publisher: Key Porter Books; 1 edition (April 14 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1552638251
- ISBN-13: 978-1552638255
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #181,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Quill & Quire
On the afternoon of March 19, 2000, Vanessa Young, a 15-year-old girl from Oakville, Ontario, suffered a severe reaction to a common drug that she was taking to relieve the stomach discomfort and nausea she had been experiencing after meals. The following day, Vanessa died. The young woman’s death launched her grief-stricken father, businessman and former member of Parliament Terence Young, on a campaign to find out how the widely prescribed medication Prepulsid led to his daughter’s death – and why hundreds of similar cases are allowed to occur every year. Death by Prescription follows Young’s investigative journey into the world of “Big Pharma.” Are these huge multinational companies so concerned about reaping gigantic profits that they fail to provide sufficient warnings about the risks involved in taking many of their drugs? Or are doctors and patients somehow ignoring those warnings? Despite the pain and anger he feels as a result of Vanessa’s death, Young determines that he will pursue the answers to these questions in a calm, rational way; to do otherwise would be to risk seeing himself written off as “pathetic” and “weeping.” Of course, there is a lot of raw emotion in these pages – Young admits that at the outset he “was prepared to raise holy hell” – but he tempers that emotion with an ability to present various sides of an issue, and to take into consideration the different implications of his findings. This is not an overly personal, “why did this have to happen to me?” story. Instead, Young marshals the analytical skills honed in his many years of business and political experience into a dispassionate, measured investigation. The result is a compelling, well-structured read that will be appreciated by any reader with an interest in the inner workings of big drug companies. And given that millions of Canadians take prescription drugs every year, this should be a large readership indeed.
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Fifteen-year-old Vanessa Young began taking Prepulsid after her doctor prescribed the billion-dollar-selling drug to alleviate a stomach disorder. No one suspected the drug might pose a risk.
On March 19, 2000, Vanessa died.
Shattered by grief and angry beyond belief, Terence Young began a long fight to find out why. The answer: complications resulting from a popular prescription drug. Was it possible that the drug the teenager had been assured would relieve her symptoms had, in fact, killed her? Determined to find out, Young began a lengthy investigation of his own to track down some answers. In the process, he took on a fight to battle the pharmaceutical and health care industries to make sure this kind of tragedy never happened again.
The truth is, as he would find out, every year hundreds of people die as a result of complications from prescription drugs. And most of these companies--attentive to their own bottom line--plus a surprising number of agencies supposedly created to safeguard your health, just don`t seem to care.
Death by Prescription is the unforgettable story of a father`s fight to find justice for his dead teenaged daughter and a shocking wake-up call to the millions out there who are potential victims of a greedy industry that too often puts profits ahead of people.
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Fascinating informative read, Dec 6 2009
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This review is from: Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter's Killer (Hardcover)
I strongly recommend this book if you are taking or plan to take any medication in the future. True stories are much more interesting than fiction. It is guaranteed to change the way you view medications and convince you that the current system of development and regulation of medication needs to be changed.
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