terence young is a member of parliament in canada serving oakville ontario just outside of toronto after a prescription drug caused the death of his daughter vanessa he founded an advocacy group drug safety canada vanessa collapsed in front of me her heart had stopped basically she said. it up to go up stairs when you lose a child your world is upside down and i was thrown into a study of medicine of medical juergen of how the health care system works and when it doesn't work and i didn't ask for it but it was my way of dealing with the loss of finance so it was in a sense my way of grieving and it started the day she died for five years young investigated the practices of the medical on drug industries and in doing so he says he realized have influence had permeated every construct of modern society the loss of his daughter coupled with the shocking truth see uncovered through his medical research led him to write death by prescription and become one