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What you don’t know about the generic drug industry can hurt you

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) called the generic drug industry “a swamp that must be drained.”

James C. Coyne
5 min readMay 17, 2022

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This book review originally appeared on the website of the International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology which grants permission for republishing what is found there.

This Medium story is quite unusual and it is unique for me. I am calling attention to the extraordinary Barry Blackwell, not the book he reviews. More about Dr. Blackwell later in this Medium article, but for now, a teaser. He is generally credited as one of the founders of neuropsychopharmacology, but he, like a number of his colleagues became disillusioned and a spokesperson for anti-corruption, but he is not anti-psychiatry. In his own words:

My career has been devoted to helping those most in need and it was driven by an intense curiosity about the human condition. .. My salary and the fun of doing it was all it took. None of this was funded by Big Pharma, Foundations or the Federal Government.

Barry Blackwell’s review of Katherine Eban

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James C. Coyne
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Written by James C. Coyne

Socially conscious Clinical Health Psychologist. Skeptic debunking hype and pseudoscience. Defender of freedom of expression without undue fear of reprisal

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