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I am giving 3 talks @ Tucson 10/22 ‘Freud Meets Buddha’ mindfulness treatment of PTSD, depression and heart disease, and ‘Before You Take That Pill’ – focus on psychotropic meds. Click here to register.
I just saw this review published in Activities, Adaption & Aging by Leo Uzych. Thanks guys!
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Abstract:Reviews the book Before you take that pill by J. Douglas Bremner (2008). Before You Take That Pill critically examines a multitude of commonly prescribed medicines and alternative medicines (including vitamins and herbs) within the [...]
Yep! For a nickel you can now get several years of research and the contents of hundreds of research articles read by someone who is not on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies. That would be in the form of a used copy of my book Before You Take That Pill, purchased on amazon.com. Or if [...]
Well it has been an interesting week. After word go out that I had been banned by my university from listing their name on my blog, which was covered almost immediately by Inside Higher Education, there were quite a few comments on the internet. There were a number of comments about a double standard where others had used letterhead from the university to promote medications on behalf of drug companies,
Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health, is available on Amazon last time we checked for $2.84.
Last week’s decision by my university to instruct me to remove the name of my university from this blog (which was done a formal letter hand delivered by a courier) was actually the last in a string of events that to the uncritical eye might be seen as connected.
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