About Drug Story

Our society is awash in chronic disease. Tens of millions of Americans have been diagnosed with a condition - from diabetes to heart disease, from obesity to insomnia - that is often the consequence of larger social and cultural dysfunction.

Don’t worry, though! Your corner drug store contains more than 3,000 medications that promise to undo, or at least temper, the harms that everyday life puts upon us.

Every episode of Drug Story uses one drug to tell surprising, true tales about the business of disease and health. Through deep reporting, expert interviews and first-person experience, Drug Story reveals the hidden truths of how treating disease became a big business. This podcast asks the big question: What happens when we use drugs to fix up big problems?

About the Host

Thomas Goetz is an award-winning science journalist and author. He has won National Magazine Awards (print and digital), Webby Awards, and FDA contracts. The former Executive Editor at WIRED, he has worked at The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has written two award-winning books about technology and medicine. His writing has been selected for the Best American Science Writing and the Best American Technology Writing anthologies. He spent much of the past decade developing digital tools to help people make sense of prescription medications, including leading the development of openFDA for the Food and Drug Administration, and building an economic research team and editorial operations at GoodRx.

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