Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines

by Roger Bate

Overview

Roger Bate has spent years on the trail of counterfeit medicines in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, learning the anatomy of a nebulous, far-reaching black market that has resulted in countless deaths and injuries around the world. Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is the culmination of Bate's research and travels—both a fascinating firsthand account of the counterfeit drug trade and an incisive policy analysis with important ramifications for decision makers in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the international World Health Organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780844772332
Publisher:	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publication date:	01/30/2014
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Roger Bate is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He has spent years on the trail of stolen counterfeit and substandard medicines in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, learning the anatomy of the nebulous, far-reaching black market that has caused countless deaths and injuries around the world. He has undertaken field research on fake medicines using handheld spectrometers and laboratory research using basic and sophisticated techniques. He has studied the laws and economics affecting the medicine trade and has published widely in the peer-reviewed scientific, legal and economic literature, including in leading journals such as The Lancet, The Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the Malaria Journal. He has published nearly one hundred articles on the topic in popular media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Performance of Fifty Male Veterans of World War II on Occupational Aptitude Tests 5 and 6, and the Minnesota Spatial Relations Test Chapter 2 Some Problems in the Selection, Administration, and Interpretation of Psychological Tests for Vocational and Educational Guidance Chapter 3 A Functional Vocational Guidance Library: The Chicago Plan Chapter 4 A Study of Academic and Professional Requirements and Personal Characteristics for Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors in State Agencies Chapter 5 Rehabilitation Counseling Chapter 6 Proposed Cerebral Palsy Research Design Chapter 7 Rehabilitation Comes of Age Chapter 8 A Study of Rehabilitation Counselor Employment in State Agencies Chapter 9 Some Problems in the Rehabilitation of the Tubercular Alcoholic Chapter 10 Attitudes of Delinquents as Measured By the Semantic Differential Scales Chapter 11 The Testing Program in Vocational and Educational Guidance Chapter 12 Semantic Differential and Delinquent Behavior Chapter 13 Vocational Counseling and Planning Chapter 14 Successful Work-Study Program for Mentally Retarded Chapter 15 Vocational Rehabilitation Conseling and Adjustment of the Mentally Retarded Chapter 16 Vocational Rehabilitation in Western Europe, Yugoslavia, and the United States 1971-1972 Chapter 17 Habilitation: A Cradle to the Grave Concept Chapter 18 How Rehabilitation Programs Deal with Stigma Toward the Mentally Ill

Editorial Reviews

Bate’s work is more than a detailed analysis; it is also a revelatory first-hand account of the counterfeit drug trade.

Forbes

This impeccably researched, well-organized book fully addresses the underworld of pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the longitudinal effects of this unsavory commerce.. . .Starting with the dark history of drug safety that had roots in the US, the book makes an impressive case regarding the difficulty/impossibility of tracking and prosecuting drug forgers, and the author provides a reasonable approach for ensuring safety for US products. He addresses the most problematic issues by country, including the intricacies of how each nation polices or ignores drug forgery. Well-designed charts/graphs assist readers to understand the volumes of data Bate has amassed during his travels. Numerous pictures clearly illustrate the difficulty of identifying fake drugs, both for health professionals and consumers. Bate's writing style is scientific and logical, but highly accessible to curious readers. He offers an honest critique of the pharmaceutical business, sharing his extraordinary insight and analysis of current drug counterfeiting issues and spot-on speculation of what the future holds for this problem. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.

Choice Reviews

This impeccably researched, well-organized book fully addresses the underworld of pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the longitudinal effects of this unsavory commerce.. . .Starting with the dark history of drug safety that had roots in the US, the book makes an impressive case regarding the difficulty/impossibility of tracking and prosecuting drug forgers, and the author provides a reasonable approach for ensuring safety for US products. He addresses the most problematic issues by country, including the intricacies of how each nation polices or ignores drug forgery. Well-designed charts/graphs assist readers to understand the volumes of data Bate has amassed during his travels. Numerous pictures clearly illustrate the difficulty of identifying fake drugs, both for health professionals and consumers. Bate's writing style is scientific and logical, but highly accessible to curious readers. He offers an honest critique of the pharmaceutical business, sharing his extraordinary insight and analysis of current drug counterfeiting issues and spot-on speculation of what the future holds for this problem. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.

Choice

This impeccably researched, well-organized book fully addresses the underworld of pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the longitudinal effects of this unsavory commerce.. . .Starting with the dark history of drug safety that had roots in the US, the book makes an impressive case regarding the difficulty/impossibility of tracking and prosecuting drug forgers, and the author provides a reasonable approach for ensuring safety for US products. He addresses the most problematic issues by country, including the intricacies of how each nation polices or ignores drug forgery. Well-designed charts/graphs assist readers to understand the volumes of data Bate has amassed during his travels. Numerous pictures clearly illustrate the difficulty of identifying fake drugs, both for health professionals and consumers. Bate's writing style is scientific and logical, but highly accessible to curious readers. He offers an honest critique of the pharmaceutical business, sharing his extraordinary insight and analysis of current drug counterfeiting issues and spot-on speculation of what the future holds for this problem. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.

CHOICE

Economist Bate (fellow, American Enterprise Inst.) here expands on his brief 2008 book, Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade. For this work, he traveled the world, investigating drugs that were less potent than they should have been (and therefore less likely to be effective), adulterated with agents ranging from talc to toxins, made available for purchase past their expiration date, and—the major focus—falsified, intentionally mislabeled, or counterfeit and intended to mislead the purchaser (as in the case of Viagra). Bate is attentive to the problem of fake drugs sold over the Internet, and his experiences online as well as his personal connections with government officials highlight his deep interest in and knowledge of the subject. Bate outlines the fake drug situation in Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and Turkey, among other places, but devotes the most attention to the "phake" industry in Nigeria, India, and China. VERDICT No scientific knowledge is necessary to understand and appreciate the problems that Bate addresses. Anyone concerned about the quality of prescription medications will find this book of interest. (Index not seen.)—Martha Stone, Treadwell Lib., Boston

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