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
  

Resources

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  
• Bottle Of Lies by Katherine Eban
  
• The Peter Attia Drive Podcast
  

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Connect with Katherine Eban:

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About Our Guest:

Katherine Eban is an award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author, Vanity Fair special correspondent, and Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking, coercive interrogations by the CIA, and COVID-19’s origins, have won international attention and numerous awards. Her Vanity Fair article “Rorschach and Awe,” which first identified the architects of the CIA’s torture methods used on 9/11 detainees, inspired the 2019 film “The Report.”