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Comfortably Numb.(Book review)

Comfortably Numb

Charles Barber

Pantheon Books

www.randomhouse.com

282 pp., $26

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In Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation, Charles Barber recognizes what lawyers who handle pharmaceutical products liability litigation have known for years: Drug companies create a marketplace using direct television advertising and attractive salespeople to push samples on physicians, who in turn prescribe these heavily marketed drugs to their patients.

Barber, a Yale University School of Medicine psychiatry lecturer, documents in great detail how the pharmaceutical industry works and how it relies on flimsy science. He ...

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