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 ...
Modern medicine offers powerful treatments for many ailments, but some common cures carry serious, sometimes life-threatening risks. This book contains vital information readers should know before seeing a doctor, including startling facts about cholesterol-lowering medications, high-strength asthma inhalers, steroids, antibiotics and Ritalin.
In this history of Thalidomide, a scientist teams up with a recipient of the drug to document both the drawbacks and benefits of it, arguing that although it has been linked to birth deformities and adults' nerve damage, it is a promising treatment for serious diseases, like AIDS and cancer.
With meticulous research on Paxil and other antidepressants, Bass reveals the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry. She lays bare the unhealthy ties between the medical establishment, big pharma, and the FDA--relationships that place vulnerable children and adults at risk every day.
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.
In this examination of pharmaceutical interventions for depression, a renowned psychiatrist discusses the negative and often irreversible side effects of Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. He also provides drug-free strategies for eliminating depression and chemical addictions.
Medical researcher Dr. Elizabeth Barnes is informed by Detective Adam Boedecker that a recent wave of homicides may have resulted from her new antidepressant. Elizabeth soon realizes that this driven cop is the only one who can stop the killings--and save her from the dark side. Original.
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 ...
Presents a comprehensive resource of vital information on the prescription drugs and over-the-counter remedies that react in deadly ways with one another, as well as with various foods, vitamins, minerals, herbs, and alcohol. Reprint.
When the world-renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman was put on prednisone to combat a rare lung disease, she teamed up with her sister, a prominent physician, to write a comprehensive, practical guide to making treatment with prednisone as effective and trouble-free as possible.
The author of this depression treatment plan encourages victims to forego medications with unpleasant side effects and to try his all-natural approach for at least three months. He advises readers to avoid caffeine, refined sugar, and alcohol. In addition to sharing information about psychopharmacology and endocrinology, he provides an organic ...
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.
This is a story about the people who worked with Tambocor. Among them was a Stanford medical professor whose warning of a possible impending tragedy was ignored. In tracing Tambocor's 14-year journey from the laboratory bench to the medicine chest, the author raises profoundly disturbing questions about how drug companies test drugs and persuade ...
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.
This book features indispensable compendium of interactions, side effects, and contraindications. It is cross referenced to the 2008 "PDR". It is an all-in-one resource that contains eight critical indices.
This concise guide explains the problems caused by statins, and offers easy-to-follow strategies that will allow readers to benefit from effective natural alternatives.
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