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In this explosive exposé, award-winning investigative reporter Gardiner Harris delivers a penetrating, meticulously researched investigation into Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s most iconic and long-trusted pharmaceutical companies. Harris first began his pursuit of this story in 2004, when a chance encounter at an airport bar led him into conversation with a Johnson & Johnson drug sales representative. Listening to her harrowing account of unethical practices—and the devastating toll they had taken on her family—profoundly shaped Harris’ perspective and sparked his deep dive into the company’s troubling history and practices.

Going far beyond Johnson & Johnson’s carefully cultivated “family-friendly, baby-safe” image, Harris painstakingly uncovers decades of deception, corporate negligence, and outright criminality. He investigates multiple alarming scandals, including Johnson’s Baby Powder and its cover-up of potential cancer connections; hidden dangers associated with the staple household medicine Tylenol; deadly campaigns to illegally market antipsychotic medications; medications meant to help cancer patients that may actually accelerate tumor growth; and the company’s aggressive marketing of powerful opioids, such as fentanyl in their blockbuster product Duragesic, leading to addiction epidemics rivaling even those from Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.

No More Tears presents vital truths about a corporation trusted by millions, exposing startlingly unethical practices that have endangered countless lives. Gripping, disturbing, and essential, Harris’s book reveals the devastating realities concealed behind the comforting and sanitized images of smiling babies and safe family products. Praised as a groundbreaking work of reporting, No More Tears provides a shocking, thoroughly documented look into one of the world’s largest healthcare conglomerates, forever transforming how readers see the pharmaceutical industry.