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Textbook: Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health. By Donald Barr 3rd edition.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by Elisabeth
Rosenthal
PBS Video 1: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic (55 min)
Task
Question 1. How did pharmaceutical companies develop in the US?
Question 2. What is the role of advertising in the use of pharmaceuticals?
Question 3. How does drug patent law lead to higher drug prices?
Question 4. What is the opioid epidemic?
Question 5. Who is to blame for the opioid epidemic (drug makers, people taking drugs, physicians, pharmacies, drug companies)?