From Ativan to Zoloft, Effexor to Prozac, this work describes at the dangers of psychiatric medication, and offers guidance on how to safely stop taking them. When first published in 1999, "Your Drug May Be Your Problem" was ahead of its time. The only book to provide an uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of ...
This expanded, up-to-the-minute, fully-revised edition of the bestselling guide to prescription pills offers charts, lists, diagrams, an extensive cross-referencing index, and lifesaving information on all the latest medication available today.
A comprehensive guide to commonly used prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and other drugstore products gives readers the power to protect themselves at the doctor's office and in the pharmacy by listing drug interactions, serious side effects, and safer alternative remedies. Reprint.
Bringing to light the most cutting-edge scientific research, "The Side Effects Bible" explains to readers how up to 30 percent of drug-induced side effects are caused because the drug saps the human body of essential vitamins and minerals.
Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this handbook provides complete, current, and easily accessible information on how psychotropic drugs interact with one another and with compounds used to treat non-psychiatric medical conditions. The book is organized for rapid reference, includes numerous tables, and offers guidelines for managing ...
This text provides an account of the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brains behaviour. This updated 7th edition includes: expanded discussion of the mechanisms of drug action; new coverage of the receptors upon which many psychoactive drugs act; more material of relevance to the caring professions; new information on nonpharmacological ...
Dr. Breggin presents this fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at people driven to suicide, murder, and other violent behaviors by the psychotropic medications that were meant to help them.
Based on Dr. Avorn's own pioneering studies of medication use as well as his 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and educator, this timely and provocative investigation reports how prescription drugs are approved, priced, promoted, prescribed, and often misused.
Written by an award-winning journalist, this investigative piece of the legal drug culture is both a moving personal memoir and a devastating exploration of pharmaceutical companies, drug regulators, doctors, pharmacists, and unsuspecting patients.
In this text, Earl Mindell presents a survey of over 1000 safe, inexpensive natural remedies that can replace prescription drugs in the treatment of depression, heart disease, cancer, digestive problems, insomnia, obesity, arthritis, anxiety and flu.
Makoto Kubota wandered through life, not taking things too seriously or looking too deep within himself. His job as the head of the Izumo Group's youth gang kept him occupied with yakuza wars, mahjong and assassinations... Until the day he stumbled upon a strange drug called Wild Adapter that produces bizarre side-effects - including death.
Lab Reference Pocket Guide is a convenient, easy to use pocket guide to laboratory testing. Featuring several hundred lab tests, each test has a brief description, norms for adults and some children, and panic values. The primary purpose of the guide is to be able to quickly identify what disease or drug has caused the test to either be high or ...
Provides practical information on how to take more than 300 commonly prescribed and over-the-counter drugs. Organized alphabetically by common drug name, the book spans Accutane (for Acne) to Zantac (for ulcers). The book covers information that a consumer needs to know, such as: why the drug is given; how to take it; what to do if you miss a dose ...
Many prescription medicines deplete the body of much needed nutrients. Readers will learn which medications deplete nutrients, and how they can maintain their nutritional health. Safe, natural ways to restore healthy levels of the necessay nutrients while taking prescription medicines is provided.
Patients with mental and substance use disorders have shown higher rates of morbidity and mortality from medical illnesses than the general population, and physicians are also increasingly aware of adverse effects of psychiatric medications on metabolic and cardiovascular health. In light of these problems, this book addresses an important unmet ...
The first book to expose the shortcomings of psychiatric drugs and to guide patients and doctors through the process of withdrawing from them. }Well over ten million Americans are prescribed a psychiatric medication annually, for symptoms as varied as headache and insomnia to depression and various psychiatric disorders. Unbelievably, many of ...
This practical guide to pharmacology is unusual in its approach. Instead of examining the normal effects of drugs this book looks at the adverse effects. With the advent of nurse prescribing it is essential that nurses are familiar with the common adverse effects, how to recognise them and how to deal with them. The book is divided into three ...
Any drug that has an effect on illness also has the potential to demonstrate adverse effects. Therefore, it is critical for physicians and patients to weigh the potential benefits versus the potential harm that can be caused by a given treatment. This book applies this principle to the practice of clinical psychopharmacology, the use of biological ...
Interest in the field of pharmacovigilance has grown rapidly in recent years with the possible toxicity of a drug becoming as much a focus of clinical trials as its benefits. This key text is a definitive resource for professionals working within pharmacovigilance. Written by leading professionals in the field, its clear structure, covers all the ...
An expose of the risks of commonly prescribed medications discusses the prescription errors doctors often make and shows consumers how to deal with the potentially harmful results.
Based on the 1999 "Drug Eruption Reference Manual", this pocket guide catalogues the adverse cutaneous side effects of 620 generic and over 1100 trade-name drugs on skin, hair, nails, mucous membranes, and teeth. Also featured are 50 new generic drugs, including Viagra (sildenafil), Zyprexa (olanzapine), and Trovan (trovafloxacin), and combination ...
This handy reference is the one essential tool clinicians need to recognize and avoid overdoses, interactions, and adverse effects in patients who use herbal remedies. Cross references and detailed index help you find important information quickly. Interactions are summarized for both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. This book ...
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