No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

ISBN: 0593229878

Author: Harris, Gardiner

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive, deeply reported expos of Johnson & Johnson, one of Americas oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies-from an award-winning investigative journalistA damning portrait.-Associated PressA page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the worlds largest healthcare conglomerate.-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A LifeFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROne day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who happened to be a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson. Her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact theyd had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris would cover the company-and the entire pharmaceutical industry-for the Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that very first conversation led to this book-a blistering expos of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world.Harris takes us light-years away from the companys image as the child-friendly baby company as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding the link of Johnsons Baby Powder to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, a criminal campaign to sell antipsychotics that have cost countless lives, a popular drug used to support cancer patients that actually increases the risk that cancer tumors will grow, and deceptive marketing that accelerated opioid addictions through their product Duragesic (fentanyl) that rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma.Filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.