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Let Them Eat Ritalin

Doug Bremner
May 2, 2017
Mental Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychiatry
1 Comment
It seems strange that the diagnosis of Attention Deficits Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) been increasing so dramatically over the past few years. Ten per cent of boys in America are prescribed some kind of...
Mr. Whipple

Don’t Squeeze the Sharma

Doug Bremner
October 23, 2016
Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychiatry
1 Comment
I recently became aware of a psychiatrist from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London named Tonmoy Sharma, MD, once a prominent academic psychiatrist in England with multiple papers and books...
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg

‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Now on audiobook

Doug Bremner
September 18, 2016
Accutane, Depression, Film, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to be told, the best-selling narrative nonfiction book by Doug Bremner MD that is soon to be made into a film, is now available on audiobook...

A Growing Market for Diabetes

Doug Bremner
August 15, 2016
Pharmaceutical Industry
Diabetes is one of those conditions that must be treated for life, and requires lifestyle shifts and constant monitoring. Diabetics are in for the long haul, no matter which of the two major types of...

Fluoroquinolone Toxicity

Doug Bremner
August 11, 2016
Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry
The fluoroquinolone antibiotics, which include drugs like Cipro, were first introduced in the 1980s. They inhibit DNA gyrase, an enzyme needed for bacterial DNA replication and therefore bacterial cell...

Don’t Count on the Government to Save You From Dangerous Drugs

Doug Bremner
August 2, 2016
Pharmaceutical Industry
A report by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outside advisory panel released last Friday stated that the FDA is putting American lives at risk. Not only has there been a shrinking of the budget...
Time to Die! Arnold

Time to Die! (Oops! I Mean Time to Quit!)

Doug Bremner
August 2, 2016
Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology
I was sitting in my car dealership today waiting to get service on my car and working on my laptop while the television was droning on in front of me. I mean this is one of the rare times when I watch TV...
Accutane

News You Won’t Find in the NY Times

Doug Bremner
July 31, 2016
Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Posts in English, Psychology, Suicide
Here's a forgotten chapter from pharmaceutical history. The acne drug, Accutane (isotretinoin), manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, in addition to being associated with (as I wrote in prior posts) suicide,...

Can You Please Put Some Sugar on This Crap?

Doug Bremner
July 30, 2016
Accutane, Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry, Psychology
I was reading the NY Times this weekend when I saw a story about a celebrity dermatologist who had a SWAT team descend on her office and arrest her for illegal use of narcotics (Percocet). Seems she had...
Hans Peterson

Accutane Made Me Do It

Doug Bremner
July 27, 2016
Depression, Pharmaceutical Industry
1 Comment
  I was interviewed this morning by WLS-TV in Chicago about  the case of a man who admitted to killing his dermatologist, claiming that the acne medication Accutane made him do it. I referred to our...
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