Published this past March to critical acclaim, Gerald Posner’s PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America is the first investigative history of how a handful of chemical companies morphed from morphine production during the Civil War to today’s trillion dollar a year pharmaceutical industry. Along the way, Posner explores those responsible for the lethal opioid crisis and also writes about pandemics and how they will change our lives going forward. He is joined by Raymond Elman, founding editor-in-chief of Inspicio, as they discuss how the drug industry has itself become addicted to outsized profits, often at the expense of treating patients
