Author Patrick O'Neill says he wanted to focus on one man, arthur sakle. He was a psychiatrist but also involved in medical advertising at the time of oxicontant's release. His family would later market valum, another drug which was the block buster drug of its day. The book is written using documents released by discovery procedures in court cases against the company. And just as he did with his excellent books, say nothing on the troubles in northern ireland, he then created this remarkably readable and pacy account of a devastating period in all too recent history.

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