Pharmacies offer generic drugs because they are more affordable, but do they work the same as brand-name medications?
Learn how a 10-year investigation of the global generic drug industry exposed how many companies misled regulators to obtain approvals and get pharmaceutical drugs on the market and into the bodies of millions of people. Join John and Alex as they speak with award-winning investigative journalist, and New York Times best-selling author, Katherine Eban.
Together they discuss:
- Revelations from Katherine’s book Bottle of Lies
- How poor oversight and cultural deference resulted in one of the largest and most prevalent fraud cases in history
- How the Hatch-Waxman Act impacted the evolution of the generic drug industry
- The role of the FDA when regulating food and drugs within the US
- And more