"Frontline" Dangerous Prescriptions

David Archer had high cholesterol but was otherwise in good health in the fall of 2000 when he began taking Baycol, a cholesterol-lowering "statin" drug that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had recently approved to be sold at a dosage four times higher than the originally approved dose. About two months after starting the higher-dosage drug, Archer would be dead. What Da...