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Presents an account of how the psychotropic drug Halcion came onto the market in the UK and the US and how it was subsequently withdrawn in the UK after having serious effects on many patients - such as amnesia, suicidal behaviour and psychosis. The text is a study in the issues and difficulties of controlling the safety of new drugs, the interests at stake, the science involved and the problems confronted both by regulators and consumers.

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Brilliantly documents how the flawed drug industry-government axis allows Halcion and other dangerous, but real nightmares to be approved and widely used : Sidney M Wolfe, MD, Director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group

"""Brilliantly documents how the flawed drug industry-government axis allows Halcion and other dangerous, but real nightmares to be approved and widely used"": Sidney M Wolfe, MD, Director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group"

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