NEWS & REVIEWS
Dangerous Doses in the news:
2006
June 10
Good Morning America reports that the new FDA regulations will help to crack down on the problem of drug counterfeiting in America. To read the full text, click here. To see the video of Eban on Good Morning America, click here and then on "Video: Click to watch".
March 10
The Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland is introducing a bill to help to ensure the safety of the drug supply. "Maryland's laws have been notoriously weak," said Katherine Eban of the state that has no inspector, rarely does background checks and allows distributors to work out of their homes. To read the full article, click here.
February
"Hemophilia Thieves: Where Does Your Factor Really Come From" by Laurie Kelley, details an increasing threat to hemophilia patients -- counterfeit and adulterated blood products. With references to Dangerous Doses, Kelley provides a thorough overview of the dangers of the current pharmaceutical trade and how patients can protect themselves. Published in Parent Empowerment Newsletter, Volume 16, Issue 1.
January 29
Read about the aftermath of the Lipitor counterfeitry scheme in the Ventura County Star.
"Fake Drugs victimize an unsuspecting public"
"Recipient of fake drug advocates harsh penalties"
"Amgen also falls victim to counterfeits"
2005
November 2
Newsday reports on the testimony of Katherine Eban and Kevin Fagan during congressional hearings yesterday. Click here to read the article.
September 26
When AmerisourceBergen announces that it will stop buying drugs for U.S. consumers from secondary wholesalers, Eban
tells TheStreet.com: "Now you
have two out of three major wholesalers making, if nothing else, a gesture in the right direction."
September 24
Eban discusses her experience of investigating Dangerous Doses on NPR's The People's Pharmacy.
September 20
Eban tells NBC affiliate WIS TV
that the drugs she tracked in Dangerous Doses were believed to have "sat in the back of a strip club, in a beer
cooler in South Florida. When you look at that, you know something is seriously wrong with our distribution system."
September 6
In an article on the repercussions of wholesalers' purchases from the pharmaceutical gray market, Eban tells TheStreet.com that Cardinal
"closed one of their back doors—the back door that's marked 'back door.' But there are other, unmarked back doors that
are
still open."
July 17
Find out how government bureaucracy dissolved Operation Stone Cold and scattered its Horsemen in the Florida
Sun-Sentinel.
July 14
Eban appears on Fox News DaySide to discuss Dangerous Doses.
July 10
Dangerous Doses is cited in the Houston Chronicle in an article about the relative safety of
Canadian drugs.
July 5
In an editorial "Good Start to Stop Bad Drugs," Newsday cites Dangerous Doses and urges the
passage of "Tim Fagan's Law."
June 30
"For years we have been buying stolen, recycled, adulterated, substandard medicine from our pharmacies. Who knew?"
Eban tells Failure Magazine
during an interview.
June 25
"Welcome to American-style medicine," Eban tells The Hamilton Spectator after a Canadian pharmacy
dispensed counterfeit medicine. "It really is the 21st century gold rush."
June 15
James Christian, head of global security for Novartis International, states in testimony before a House Energy and
Commerce
Subcommittee: "There's a new book out that just deals with the issues of the United States called Dangerous
Doses.
And that would be eye-opening for members of the committee to read, because it just devotes itself to
the problems in the United States that often go unreported or underreported."
June 9
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) states in the Long
Island Press, "At least now we have the book, Dangerous Doses, which documents for the first time
all these
streams of sale. When my colleagues understand that the meds they take might pass through a strip club in Florida, they
are going to
want to pass my bill."
May 31
In a lead editorial on how "bogus drugs threaten health," USA Today cites
Dangerous Doses.
May 25
The NBC TODAY Show features Eban as the journalist who exposed the problem of counterfeit medicine in the
U.S.
May 24
CVS announces that it will stop doing business with pharmaceutical wholesalers who buy drugs from the
secondary market.
Eban quoted in USA Today on CVS's decision. Click here to read the article.
May 23
Eban says in a Q&A with Investor's Business Daily: "This is not about trips to Mexico. It's about the
medicines we
trust and need the most."
May 12
Business Wire runs an editorial by the CEO of the nation's largest privately
held biopharmaceutical distributor which says Dangerous Doses "reads like a thriller, because
the traditional channel has all the intrigue and criminality of one."
May 11
The Hill reports that Dangerous Doses "adds fuel to the debate over drug safety." Click here to read the
article.
Read Eban's quote of the day in American Health
Line
and the USA Today article that states that the U.S. ranks first in reported incidents of counterfeit, stolen and diverted prescription medicine.
May 9
Rep. Steven Israel (D-NY) announces federal counterfeit drug legislation,
“Tim Fagan’s Law,” named after the Long Island
teenager who took counterfeit drugs after a liver transplant. Click here to view the press
release.
Click here to view
the legislation.
For more information, click here to
visit the
website of Tim Fagan's lawyer, Eric Turkewitz.
Dangerous Doses is featured on CBS’s
The Early Show on “phony pharmaceuticals.”
Click here to view the segment.
U.S. News & World Report commends Dangerous Doses
for exposing “one of the nasty little secrets surrounding
prescription drugs.” Click
here to read the column.
The Partnership for Safe Medicines, a coalition of patient, physician,
pharmacist, university, industry and professional organizations,
issues a release praising Dangerous Doses, stating that
the book “is a wake up call for America on the growing consumer
threat of counterfeit drugs.” Click
here to read the full release.
May 6
The Wall Street Journal cites Dangerous Doses
as an impetus in Cardinal Health’s decision to discontinue
its pharmaceutical-trading business, which bought drugs from secondary
wholesalers. Click here
to read the article.
Praise for DANGEROUS DOSES:
"In Dangerous Doses, Katherine Eban showed how vulnerable America's drug supply is to counterfeiters. With such dangers lurking, it often seemed as if the real world trumped fiction this year." -- John Freeman, Newark Star-Ledger, 2005: The Year in Review
"Eban's incisive book should be required reading for everyone." -- Kirkus, Best Books of 2005
"Warning: Katherine Eban's Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply can give you headaches, raise your blood pressure and provoke anxiety. In extreme cases, it can leave you staring at a bottle of medicine and wondering: What do these pills really contain? ... In her vibrant tale, Eban introduces us to [counterfeiting victims] and makes the message clear: It shouldn't happen to anyone, and it could happen to you." -- Tom Graham, Washington Post, (Free registration required)
"An investigative journalist
digs into the chilling story of how degraded, expired, contaminated
and diluted medicines are being sold to American pharmacies and
hospitals. The result is a story rich in distinctive characters
whose actions range form courageous to outrageous. Vivid writing
and impressive documentation in a powerful indictment of a system
in need of immediate repair." -- Kirkus, starred review
"An exposé that wades
into more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel,
and easily boasts three times the number of sleazebag villains."
--
Salon.com
"In a style reminiscent of some
of the best detective storytellers, Eban takes us breathlessly
through robberies, back-room deals, cluttered and dirty warehouses,
crooked dealers, sociopathic profiteers, shell companies, and
state and federal laws so porous that convicted felons can become
prescription-drug brokers." -- Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, The
Boston Globe
"Few books have been written about this frightening topic, so Eban's exposé
will
make a valuable addition to any library. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal
"The book is the page-turner result of a painstaking investigation into what
happens when a poorly-regulated industry, enabled by a lack of price controls on drugs in the USA, is allowed to
operate." -- The Lancet
"Of the many well-documented horror stories associated with the U.S. Healthcare
System,
none are more shocking and hard to believe than that exposed by investigative reporter Katherine Eban in Dangerous
Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating America’s Drug Supply....You also want to give a copy of
Dangerous Doses to everyone you know, as it is not just a great page turner but an important book that
demands the widest possible
audience."-- Amazon.com
"Katherine Eban has pulled together the most detailed account yet of the
games greedy wholesalers and drug counterfeiters play with patients'
health." -- The
Boston Globe Business Section
"Looking for some not very light summer reading? Check out Katherine Eban's
Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply. It comes very highly
recommended." -- Fortune
Self magazine promotes its Homegrown
Drug Czar in the May 2005 issue.
"The book reads like a good
novel....If this book receives wide attention, it could deal another
blow to an already reeling pharmaceutical industry and users of
prescription drugs will be wary after reading it." --
Publishers Weekly
“At a time when Americans are concerned
about the safety of discount drugs from Canada and via the Internet,
here comes a well-researched case for worrying about the safety
of domestically distributed drugs as well. This riveting page-turner
provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at drug sales and
distribution.” -- Booklist
“If it's a medical investigative thriller - true life - which is needed, look no further than Katherine
Eban's Dangerous Doses” -- Bookwatch
“Ms. Eban has written a riveting tale about an enterprising group of cops, pharmacy inspectors,
and state
prosecutors who ran Operation Stone Cold, a complicated investigation into a flourishing gray market in prescription
drugs.”
-- The New York Sun
“Katherine Eban's expose on the poorly regulated prescription drug
distribution system will have you calling your doctor to check your meds.” --
Razor
"This is a book that comes along so rarely
in non-fiction—brilliantly reported, written with the pace
of a potboiler and harrowing in its societal repercussions. In
Dangerous Doses, Katherine Eban takes us on a journey
into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry so spooky and
strange and sinister and deadly, you will have a hard time believing
it is true. But it is, every word, which only makes Dangerous
Doses shine even
more." -- Buzz Bissinger, author of
Friday Night Lights
"Katherine Eban combines investigative
diligence, a natural story teller's gift for narrative, and a
consumer advocate's practical prescriptions for what to do about
the counterfeit drugs that may have contaminated the supply at
your local drug store. The result: A rare literary event—muckraking
with a human face." -- Victor Navasky,
former Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation
"Katherine Eban has delivered a dangerous
dose of truth about the drugs that keep Americans alive. Her "murder-she-wrote"
dramatic narrative turns everyone's neighborhood drugstore into
a possible crime scene." -- Wayne Barrett,
author of Rudy! An Investigative Biography
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