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Presents alphabetized profiles of over 2,000 brand name prescriptions and nearly 400 common generics, covering their uses, benefits, dosages, side effects, and precautions; and identifies dangerous herbal-prescription combinations. Also includes a color photographic drug guide.

Examines the causes and effects of the disaster that occurred when eight thousand deformed babies were born whose mothers had taken the tranquilizing drug thalidomide.

Examines how, over the last one hundred years, the pharmaceutical, chemical, and processed foods industries have created dozens of myths that are harming people's health and causing widespread illness and disease.

The dynamics of the Schwartz family are drastically changed when Bernard, father of the sarcastic Chris and devout Cathy, wakes up from a coma--accidentally induced by the ingestion of two classes of antidepressants--physically and mentally impaired, and at the mercy of his children.