As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiatrists earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In this book she turns her investigative skills to a controversial case that exposed the increased suicide rates among adolescents taking antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft. Side Effects tells the tale of a gutsy assistant attorney general who, along with an unlikely whistle-blower at an Ivy League university, uncovered evidence of deception behind one of the most successful drug campaigns in history.