J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.

 A medical expert reveals risks
 of the most commonly prescribed
 drugs--and why the drug industry
 doesn't want consumers to know
 about them.
 Recent scandals involving diabetes drugs, Vioxx, and
 many other medications reveal the serious and undisclosed
 risks of some of the most commonly used
 prescription drugs in this country. In Before You Take That Pill,
 Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, a researcher and clinician at Emory
 University whose study on Accutane and depression made
 headlines, offers an inside look at the pharmaceutical industry,
 as well as a scientifically backed assessment of the risks of more
 than three hundred prescribed medications, vitamins, and supplements.
 While many drugs are essential to the health of consumers,
 as Dr. Bremner explains, for many people, the benefits may not
 outweigh the potential side effects. This book contains warnings
 that are not on the drug labels. It also exposes tricks of the trade
 that demonstrate how the profit-making interests of “big pharma”
 may not always be in line with the safety of the public —
 from the corruption that exists in the drug approval process to
 the tactics drug companies use to encourage doctors to prescribe
 their products. Most important, Before You Take That Pill
 empowers readers by giving them sound information on specific
 medications so they can understand and weigh the potential
 risk themselves. Backed by the latest studies, as well as insight
 from a doctor who is in the trenches, this book should be on the
 shelf of every drug consumer.

 J. DOUGLAS BREMNER, M.D., is a researcher and
 physician at Emory University School of Medicine. Currently a professor
 of psychiatry and radiology, he is also the director of the
 Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit and the director of
 Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. His
 research on Accutane and depression was highly publicized and
 featured in USA Today. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

 This book has information on vitamins, drugs for the
 prevention of osteoporosis and anti-cholesterol statin drugs.
 There are also chapters on arthritis medications (NSAIDs, COX-2 inhibitors),
 acne treatments (accutane), Anti-hypertensives, diet pills, asthma and allergy
 medications, drugs for enlarged prostate (BPH), protein pump inhibitors (PPI)
 for treatment of ulcers and gastric reflux (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome medications,
 antibiotics and vaccines, osteoporosis medications, hormone replacement
 therapy (HRT) and oral contraceptive pills (OCPs), diabetes drugs, dementia drugs,
 antidepressants, antipsychotics, drugs for insomnia like z drugs and benzodiazepines,
 drugs for sexual or erectile Dysfunction (ED) like Viagra and Cialis,
 vitamins and supplements, medication in kids (stimulants like ritalin or amphetamines),
 and other areas of medication safety.

 Citations for information not in the book as well as a Table of Contents are here.

To read an exerpt from the book click here.

 To purchase Before You Take That Pill from Amazon.com click here.



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