Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America s Drug Supply [Kindle Edition] Author: Katherine Eban | Language: English | ISBN:
B006WQKZFQ | Format: PDF, EPUB
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When counterfeit prescription medicine started turning up in the nation's supply and threatening some of the sickest and weakest patients, Katherine Eban went in search of the story. What she found was an unlikely and irresistible group of heroes-five aging South Florida investigators who dubbed themselves the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and held their meetings at Hooters. Working around the clock on cases no one else wanted to tackle, they followed the trail of stolen and contaminated medicine in a takedown eventually dubbed Operation Stone Cold. This riveting page-turner takes us along with the Horsemen as they wade into "more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel" (Salon) to ultimately uncover $33 million in bad medicine and make more than sixty arrests.
Thanks in part to the attention Dangerous Doses received in hardcover, the media, politicians, and drug companies are starting to address the problems it uncovered. This new paperback edition includes a chapter with the latest update on these developments.
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- Print Length: 504 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Reprint edition (May 1, 2006)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006WQKZFQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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1. True or False: "Pharmaceutical middlemen...buy, sell, sort, repackage and distribute 98% of the nation's medicine."
2. Which of the following characters have been granted a license to trade as a secondary pharmaceutical wholesaler:
A. "A convicted heroin seller who had spent years in the Florida prison system"
B. A woman who "pleaded guilty in 2000 to selling stolen medicine through her husband's wholesale company (and) was still on probation."
C. "A fellow on federal probation after serving time for marijuana smuggling."
D. "The eighth grade dropout and heroin addict"
E. Small (big dollar) businessmen that feel threatened with extinction
F. All of the above
3. What methods have been recorded as having been used by secondary wholesalers to buy low and sell high:
A. Parking lot resale. Cancer and AIDS drugs purchased directly from professional patients who sold, rather than took, their medicine.
B. Theft from competitor's warehouses
C. Theft from hospitals
D. Drug dilution and repackaging
E. The "Puerto Rican" turn, a.k.a. the U-boat diversion, in which wholesalers take advantage of large discounts to overseas buyers, including those in Puerto Rico, by establishing companies in Puerto Rico to buy drugs at a discount. Cargo planes turn around mid-flight and resell drugs to states for a far higher price.
F. All of the above
4. True or False: Kevin Fagan, the father of a teenager poisoned by a counterfeit medication, touched the heart of Laura Bush with this personal letter:
"Today, society is suffering from a moral breakdown where huge companies look only to the bottom line and not to what is the right thing to do...
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