Before You Take That Pill Read This

Moving on Up!

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:03:55 -0500

I am incorporating WordPress into my blog to allow proper comments and to automate my permalinks so the old url http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.html
now will be
http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php
and the old feed will change from
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to http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php/feed/
please let me know of bugs etc

WE FLYZ EN SEL DRUGZ, EET RAT

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:34:14 -0500

Lolcats come to the rescue and fly corporate helicopter to Pfizer headquarters in NJ and eat that nasty inflatable rat.

'If you take a cat by the tail and swing it around by the tail you will hit someone in the pharmaceutical industry' -Sen Charles Grassley, R-Iowa

Response to criticisms and more about disclosure.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:01:32 -0500

Response to criticism from Bernard Carroll MD

Book Review: Your Body's Red Light Warning Signs

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:59:41 -0500

by Neil Shulman MD

Put it Back

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:34:22 -0500

Musings on my response to the ACNP and name calling in blogs with a guest appearance from lolcats.

My Response to the President of the ACNP

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:31:33 -0500

In which I correct the record on drinking and whores at the ACNP but stick to my guns on the guy who drew his poster title with a crayon. And on my stance on antidepressants and suicidality. And the lawn chair.

Spurious Advances in Antipsychotics Indeed

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:28:54 -0500

This week's meta analysis in The Lancet and accompanying editorial "Spurious Advances" is a pretty chilling indictment of the marketing distortions related to so called second generation antipsychotics and stacking the deck in clinical trials.

Pimping for Neurontin

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:30 -0500

An editorial written this week in NEJM outlines the sordid details of how pharma marketing bent the rules to push a second tier epilepsy drug into blockbuster status

Give Me an SG!

Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:34:08 -0500

Sanjay Gupta MD proposed as Surgeon General might be a better pick for pharma cheerleader in chief...

Announcing the Launch of the DSM-V Shadow Team

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:43:31 -0500

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF THE DSM-V SHADOW TEAM. Considering the considerable fears that many have over potential conflicts of interest of the DSM task force in psychiatry, we decided to form our own DSM "shadow team"...

Are Dermatologists Dippy?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:20:20 -0500

You might think so, given their delusional beliefs that their magic pill for acne doesn't cause depression, and in fact is a treatment of depression.

Flu Shots Are [Still] for Idiots

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:28:23 -0500

As I wrote last year, flu shots are for idiots, and things haven't changed since then. That doesn't stop agencies like the CDC from continuing to make their idiotic recommendations that are not based on the evidence

A Dissenting Opinion from the ACNP on Antidepressants and Suicidality

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:40:18 -0500

I am attending the American College of Narcissistic Psychiatrists (oops! I mean Neuro-Psychopharmacology!) this week but I differ on their view of the relationship between antidepressants and suicidality.

Side Effects of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00:47 -0500

A book review-oid of Side Effects by Alison Bass, with a focus on the bullying of Martin Teicher MD by Eli Lilly related to his paper on Prozac and suicidality.

The Infinite Reach of Pharma

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:48:48 -0500

The host of the NPR show 'The Infinite Mind' was found to have taken over one million in speaking fees from one drug company in the past seven years, none of it disclosed, however many don't know that NPR has been fattened up with profits from McDonalds cheeseburgers, hardly good for your health either.

Bad Baby! Take Your Respirdal!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:47:19 -0500

A list of the actual ages of kids on psychotropics provided by a reader is amazing. Infants on Ativan, three year olds on respirdal etc.

They're Drugging Our Kids?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:44:43 -0500

It's bad enough they're drugging our drinking water, but now our kids too? Prescriptions for antipsychotics have doubled in the past few years.

REMIND ME WHY I SHOULD BE ON PLAVIX?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:08:13 -0500

Plavix is touted as better than aspirin for the prevention of heart attacks but a study release today showed a 74% increase in heart attacks in Plavix users on Nexium or another PPI compared to those not on Nexium.

Will You Be My Friend?

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:19:39 -0500

OK, enough of gods, goddesses, and cardiologists. Back to the humble world of emotion, psychiatry, and the question of... ...will you be my friend? That's right, folks, facebook time. And blogging. Front and center.

Aphrodite Won't Get Turned on by Jupiter

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:06:35 -0500

The press is making much of the new JUPITeR study of Crestor (rosuvastatin) for patients with normal LDL and elevated CRP, but the study's findings are not as hot as you might think...

Dear Doctor, Cipro Might Make Your Tendons Snap Off

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:40:24 -0500

I got a letter today from Bayer Pharmaceuticals about their drug Cipro informing me that they had added a "black box" warning about their drug Cipro. Well I wrote about this drug over a year ago, because of all the patient complaints on the internet.