The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pi

Hailed by John le Carré as “an act of courage on the part of its author” and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States an

The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of co

Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addictive crutches.

Originally published in 2012, revised edition published in 2013, by Fourth Estate, Great Britain; Published in the United States in 2012, revised edition also,