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  • Published: 29 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969199
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

The Drugs Don't Work

A Global Threat



An Inconvenient Truth for health - the shocking crisis in antibiotics

This is a story that affects us all: our friends, our family and our children. Antibiotics add, on average, 20 years to everyone's lives. Since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, for over 70 years we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. The truth is that we have been abusing them: as patients; as doctors; as travellers; in our food.

No new class of antibiotic has been discovered for 26 years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take action now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of ailments that can today be treated easily. This book is vital in raising awareness for the future health of our children and our grandchildren.

  • Published: 29 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969199
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

Praise for The Drugs Don't Work

A horror story . . . A startling and disturbing read

Scotsman

Gets across a single point with devastating effect . . . A highly important message that, for a start, every MP and GP should be reading

Popularscience.co.uk

If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again

David Cameron, Prime Minister