Award-winning and NY Times bestselling writer and journalist Gerald Posner brings alive the heroes and villains from the pharmaceutical market and how a business meant to conserve lives is steeped in corruption and reckless profiteering—with deadly outcomes.

Pharmaceutical breakthroughs represent a number of the greatest advancements in history. But, a raging opioid epidemic and soaring medication prices have contributed to an unprecedented break down in trust between the public as well as the about Pharma: Supplements, Profits, as well as the Coming Pandemic pharmaceutical industry, demanding a national reckoning with how miraculous guarantees are marketed.

At the guts of Pharma, may be the story from the fourteen-billion-dollar family that founded the business most responsible for America’s deadly opioid crisis. Gerald Posner traces the Sacklers’ silent rise to power, a company buried under a byzantine internet of interlocking companies with ever changing brands and concealed owners. The Sackler family members provides a brilliant case study of the ethical lapses as well as the reckless profiteering that characterize a lot of Big Pharma.

Over the last thirty years, the industry has mostly abandoned analysis for new antibiotics while focusing on higher revenue medicines that treat chronic illnesses. As a result, many scientists believe Big Pharma offers unwittingly made the opening for the next world-wide pandemic. Pharma draws on thousands of authorities and corporate and business archives to expose an industry that sits at the intersection of public health and profits.