Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Best-selling Antidepressant on Trial

Author:
Alison Bass
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Reviewed in:
Fall 2008
Category:

Bass, a freelance writer and adjunct professor at Boston University, has written a book that tells the true story of a groundbreaking court case and the personal drama that surrounded the making and unmasking of a best-selling drug. It chronicles the lives of two women — a prosecutor and a whistleblower — who exposed the pattern of deception in the research and marketing of Paxil, an antidepressant prescribed to millions of children and adults.