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Download or read book Bad Pharma written by Ben Goldacre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2012, revised edition published in 2013, by Fourth Estate, Great Britain; Published in the United States in 2012, revised edition also, by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Book Synopsis All about Drugs and Doctors by : Prevention Magazine
Download or read book All about Drugs and Doctors written by Prevention Magazine and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Refills written by Peter Grinspoon and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery. Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a pillar of his community. But lurking beneath the thin veneer of having it all was an addict fueled on a daily boatload of prescription meds. When the police finally came calling--after a tip from a sharp-eyed pharmacist--Grinspoon's house of cards came tumbling down fast. His professional ego turned out to be an impediment to getting clean as he cycled through recovery to relapse, his reputation, family life, and lifestyle in ruins. What finally moves him to recover and reclaim life--including working with other physicians who themselves are addicts--makes for inspiring reading.
Download or read book Drug Dealer, MD written by Anna Lembke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic. Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it’s built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems. In Drug Dealer, MD, Dr. Anna Lembke uncovers the unseen forces driving opioid addiction nationwide. Combining case studies from her own practice with vital statistics drawn from public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, she explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug dependence and addiction. Even when addiction is recognized by doctors and their patients, she argues, many doctors don’t know how to treat it, connections to treatment are lacking, and insurance companies won’t pay for rehab. Full of extensive interviews—with health care providers, pharmacists, social workers, hospital administrators, insurance company executives, journalists, economists, advocates, and patients and their families—Drug Dealer, MD, is for anyone whose life has been touched in some way by addiction to prescription drugs. Dr. Lembke gives voice to the millions of Americans struggling with prescription drugs while singling out the real culprits behind the rise in opioid addiction: cultural narratives that promote pills as quick fixes, pharmaceutical corporations in cahoots with organized medicine, and a new medical bureaucracy focused on the bottom line that favors pills, procedures, and patient satisfaction over wellness. Dr. Lembke concludes that the prescription drug epidemic is a symptom of a faltering health care system, the solution for which lies in rethinking how health care is delivered.
Book Synopsis Powerful Medicines by : Jerry Avorn, M.D.
Download or read book Powerful Medicines written by Jerry Avorn, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced. This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans. In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer: How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation’s drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why do those decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls? Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry’s own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible. This is a passionate and provocative call for action as well as a compelling work of clear-headed science.
Book Synopsis BMA New Guide to Medicine and Drugs by : British Medical Association
Download or read book BMA New Guide to Medicine and Drugs written by British Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete home reference to over 2,500 medicines - fully revised and updated.The BMA New Guide to Medicine & Drugs Ninth Edition is the fully updated, quick-reference guide to drugs for anyone wanting to know more about the medication they're taking, from Britain's leading authority.Jargon-free and easy-to-follow, get all the vital information you need on 2,500 of today's prescription and over-the-counter drugs fast. Find advice on understanding and using medicines and learn how they work, what they treat, their risks, benefits, side effects, and how to use them safely and effectively. Plus, get detailed full-page profiles of 276 commonly used medicines and information about drugs new to the market.Essential guidance for anyone taking medication, or wanting to know more about the major drugs used in common medical practice. The BMA New Guide to Medicine and Drugs Ninth Edition is perfect for the family bookshelf and for healthcare professionals.
Download or read book Dopesick written by Beth Macy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep – and deeply needed – look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks 'Essential reading' New York Times Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and explains how a nation has become enslaved to prescription drugs. This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue, encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers. The drug's dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to numb the pain of of joblessness and the need to pay the bills. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother's question – why her only son died – and comes away with a harrowing tale of greed and need.
Download or read book Drugs for Life written by Joseph Dumit and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges our understanding of health, risks, facts, and clinical trials [Payot]
Book Synopsis Physician's Drug Handbook by : Springhouse
Download or read book Physician's Drug Handbook written by Springhouse and published by Springhouse Corporation. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date reference of its kind, this popular handbook contains complete prescribing information on virtually every drug in clinical use, including more than 50 new medications. Arranged alphabetically for easy use, it offers physicians all the information they need to identify the appropriate treatment for a patient.
Book Synopsis Doctors and Their Patients by : Edward Shorter
Download or read book Doctors and Their Patients written by Edward Shorter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science 'Doctors and Their Patients' describes how both have arrived at this sad shape.
Book Synopsis The Janus Doctor by : James J. Scheiner
Download or read book The Janus Doctor written by James J. Scheiner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 21, 1980, the author, a morally insane, drug-addicted surgeon hit bottom. Guilty of fraudulent research, he finds himself reduced to a terrified non-entity in a barred bedlam oiled by a system bent on destroying the things that once defined human beings. There, he endures the angst of withdrawal and the savage revenge of a fellow con that had once been the target of the doctor's ignorant, racist tongue. Prison, however, turns out to be less a punishment than a restorative sanctuary, for there, guided by a notorious Black Panther and a wise rabbi, he confronts a soul overburdened with contemptible sin. Set free by the truth, he becomes humanized and ultimately rejoices in the glory of redemption and resurrection. Interjected between the prison scenes, the author recounts the intimate details that spawned a personality destined for tragedy. He speaks of a childhood spent in a house of horrors, of an adolescence spent slaving in a sweatbox of a bakery, of an obtuse alcoholic father, and an abusive perfunctory mother who, with every other breath, cleverly brainwashes him into presuming he wants to become a doctor. Ill-prepared for college, he resorts to drugs and duplicity in order to propel himself to the top of his class and through the doors of the Kafkaesque training grounds of medicine. His malignant idiosyncrasies carry over into his private practice, causing it to turn into a chaos, which, thanks to a profession gripped by a conspiracy of silence, is allowed to endure for almost a decade. It was not until he cripples a myriad of lives-including those closest to him-that his scalpel is finally taken out of his trembling hands. In need of money, he offers to perform clinical trials on experimental drugs for several pharmaceutical firms. Having no patients, however, to participate in the trials, he invents them and makes a go of it until the Food and Drug Administration stumbles upon his spurious dealings. Striving to thwart their efforts, the author engages in a series of reckless, self-destructive schemes; one of which-the use of drugs and alcohol to beguile his assistant into taking responsibility for his evil-proves tragic. In an Afterword bearing on the portentous problem of Janus doctors, the author discloses that more or less 15 percent of doctors are, at any one time, addicted to alcohol, to other drugs, or to both. And, probably, because of it, kill more people than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. He discusses why the problem remains unchecked, and proffers a prescription for its solution.
Book Synopsis Drug Use for Grown-Ups by : Dr. Carl L. Hart
Download or read book Drug Use for Grown-Ups written by Dr. Carl L. Hart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology. The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr. Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step.
Book Synopsis Pills, Potions, and Poisons by : T. W. Stone
Download or read book Pills, Potions, and Poisons written by T. W. Stone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of all the medicines prescribed by doctors are not taken by their patients. One of the reasons most commonly given by patients for not taking drugs is that they feel unhappy about taking medicines which they do not understand and of which they are afraid. This book attempts to rectify this problem by showing in clear, non-technical language how medicines and other drugs work in the body to reduce the effects of disease. Most chapters include fascinating background information on how some of our most important drugs were discovered, along with intriguing and often amusing anecdotes about the drugs and the people behind their discovery. Each chapter also includes a summary of the key points together with illustrations, photographs or diagrams to summarise the main groups and how they work in the body. The book covers all the major groups of drugs, with complete listings of all the drugs available in the UK and the USA, so that the reader can locate his or her specific drug and read about the actions of the drugs in that group. The various chapters cover drugs used to treat high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, ulcers, cancers, infections, impotence, incontinence, arthritis, osteoporosis, as well as hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptives and drugs used in disorders of the brain such as schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. There is also a chapter on drugs which are abused such as cannabis, alcohol, nicotine and ecstasy, and a chapter covering some of the poisons we encounter, such as carbon monoxide, arsenic, sheep dip, and the venoms of snakes, spiders, scorpions and marine organisms. Here, then, a fascinating survey of how chemicals have their effects in the body. It shows how drugs work and explains why it is that taking some medicines for many years is far safer than suffering the long-term effects of disease. Pills, Potions and Poisons is an entertaining read that should also help to improve your health and quality of life.
Book Synopsis My Doctor My Drug Dealer by : Brianna Victoria
Download or read book My Doctor My Drug Dealer written by Brianna Victoria and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOCIETY NEEDS A WAKE-UP CALL Written for all the tens of thousands of doctors who write prescriptions, the pharmaceutical companies who create these concoctions and don't warn the public of their dangers, and the pharmacies that fill but have the right and oath to deny those quantities. Would you give one of your family members a medication you put on the market but wasn't honest about the serious addiction it carried with it? Written also for the insurance companies that approve payment without checking the interactions and/or questioning the massive quantities. For all of you that fall into the above categories, shame on you. You don't socially, morally, or ethically understand the full ramifications that addiction brings to society and the way it tears families apart. It's repulsive to think how you get away with fueling yourselves with greed. What happened to your oath for your patients? Doctors write prescriptions like the police write tickets all for the money! The trillions of dollars these companies make out of medications that cost pennies . . . Maybe they should be responsible to pay for people who need detox or rehabs and no financial means of getting help for a problem those companies created in the first place . . .
Book Synopsis The New Medicine and the Old Ethics by : Albert R. Jonsen
Download or read book The New Medicine and the Old Ethics written by Albert R. Jonsen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonsen (medical history and ethics, U. of Washington Medical School) addresses the conflict between altruism and self-interest, which he believes is built into the structure of medical care and woven into the fabric of physicians' lives. Ranging through history from the mythical Asclepius to the lat
Book Synopsis What Doctors Don't Tell You by : Lynne McTaggart
Download or read book What Doctors Don't Tell You written by Lynne McTaggart and published by Thorsons Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of this highly controversial and campaigning book that reveals the truth about the pills and procedures your doctor prescribes and offers proven alternatives for diagnosing, preventing and treating many illnesses. Includes updated information on all the most recent health issues - vaccination, HRT, Viagra, IVF and more. Every year, 1.17 million British people - a population the size of Birmingham - are put in a hospital bed by a medical procedure gone wrong. And 80% of most of the treatments we take for granted have never been scientifically proven to work. In this groundbreaking book, leading health campaigner Lynne McTaggart reveals the real secrets of modern medicine. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition tackles some of the most worrying health issues of recent years. For example, did you know: * Statin drugs, the new miracle cure for high cholesterol, are causing a heart failure epidemic? * SSRI drugs - now come with a black box warning about suicide risk to children * HRT, touted as the most important preventative treatment for all the diseases of female old age, actually causes heart disease, dementia, strokes and cancer? * IVF could be causing cases of breast cancer? * The statistics about illnesses prevented by vaccination are vastly overplayed? * Viagra, the great white hope of male impotence, has caused a rash of sudden deaths and is effective, at most, only half the time. What Doctors Don't Tell You gives you all the information you need to take your health into your own hands, exposing the true dangers of conventional medicine and offering up-to-the-minute, scientifically proven alternatives for diagnosing, preventing and treating many illnesses.
Book Synopsis The Drug Book by : Michael C. Gerald
Download or read book The Drug Book written by Michael C. Gerald and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautiful and well-researched historical guide to significant drugs” from the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prescription Drugs (Library Journal). Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs like alcohol, opium, and hemlock; the smallpox and the polio vaccines; homeopathic cures; and controversial medical treatments like ether, amphetamines, and Xanax—while shining a light on the scientists, doctors, and companies who brought them to us. “These true tales of discovery in The Drug Book by Michael C. Gerald might change the way you think about your medicine.” —The Healthy “An excellent starting point for student researchers and is very browsable for the general reader.” —Booklist
