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Books

• Addict in the Family: How to Cope with the Long Haul -- "to assist family members and others to ease the suffering of those affected by heroin addiction." Recommended by Common Sense for Drug Policy ?.
• Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare, by David Himmelstein -- explores how most Americans would prefer a national health program like Canada’s that not only costs less than ours but insures everyone and why this option seems not viable in the U.S.
• Health Online: How To Find Health Information, Support Groups, and Self-help Communities in Cyberspace, by Tom Ferguson -- "makes going online easy by ... especially self-help support groups….finds the healing power ... in the worldwide community of people helping each other."
• Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine, by John Abramson -- "Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdo$ed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health. The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug."
• Our Bodies Ourselves
• Social Transformation of Modern Medicine, by Paul Starr -- Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, a landmark history of how the American health care system has evolved over the last two centuries.

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