Drug Companies HAVE To Tell You The Bad News
Chantix is a prescription smoking-cessation aid and has a lovely official website that will give you the information about the drug that the company that makes it provides for patients. This is the package insert a doctor is supposed to read before prescribing. You will love paragraph 6, about neuropsychiatric side effects.
I don’t give this drug to my psychiatric patients. Death, by suicide or anything else, is my unfavorite side effect. When I was really heavy, a doctor wanted to give me a stimulant, Modafinil, to help me lose weight. I told him I would rather be alive and fat than skinny and dead. When I was a young medical student, my favorite sneaky recreation was to read package inserts.
You do not have to be a medical student to read package inserts. Phamacists give them out free. They are reprinted in the PDR. You can find a copy in any library. Or online, of course. Read the ones for your prescription drugs. If I prescribe something I do. All doctors should. They are basically an elegant attempt to deflect liability from the drug company onto the doctors. Like we need more liability risk. Thank you drug companies.
Filed under News, prescription drugs by on May 27th, 2017. 
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