My upcoming book “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Pharmaceuticals” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) is the result of a seven year investigation into the deadly world of ineffective medicines, which kill between 100,000 to a million people every year. The wide-ranging estimates show how little we know about the extent of the problem. In some cases the medicines are poorly made by inattentive or negligent manufacturers, in others, faux products containing chalk or road paint are sold by criminal gangs as life-saving hypertensives, antibiotics or TB medicines.
via The hidden danger of fake and substandard medicines – Health – AEI.
