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	Podcast:		Madness Radio
	Episode:		Our Daily Meds: Melody Petersen
	Category:		Health
	Duration:		00:51:12
	Publish Date:		2009-07-14 09:16:00
	Description:		More than 100,000 people die in the US each year from prescription drugs — used as directed by their doctor. How did aggressive marketing make our health care system a cause of widespread sickness? Why haven’t government regulation or medical research been able to protect the public? New York Times health reporter Melody Petersen discusses her new book, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. http://www.ourdailymedsthebook.com
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