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Do you really need that pill? : how to avoid side effects, interactions, and other dangers of overmedication
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Do you really need that pill? : how to avoid side effects, interactions, and other dangers of overmedication
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xix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
Tackling the epidemic of prescription-drug overuse, a family-practice physician specializing in holistic medicine combines the stories of those who have suffered ill effects from taking too many drugs with cutting-edge medical findings helps readers realize they can choose different solutions to their health problems.
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Part one: Defining the problem. The dangers of taking too many pills -- Why we are taking so many pills -- Part two: Seven medical conditions and the drugs you might not need. High cholesterol and cardiovascular disease -- Osteoporosis -- Acid reflux disease -- Depression -- Chronic pain: back, neck, and osteoarthritic -- High blood pressure -- Type 2 diabetes -- Part three: Safely reducing your drug use of drugs. Talking to your doctor -- Making healthy lifestyle changes -- Alternative therapies.
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Publication Info:
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2018]

©2018
Subject:
Medication abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
Drug abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
Analgesics -- Overdose -- United States -- Prevention.
Drugs -- Prescribing
Drugs -- Overdose -- United States -- Prevention.
Drug interactions
Drugs -- Side effects
Abuse of legal drugs
Abuse of medication
Abuse of medicines
Misuse of therapeutic drugs
Pharmaceutical abuse
Prescription drug abuse
Drug use
Analgetics
Anodynes
Pain-killing drugs
Pain relievers
Painkillers
Drug prescribing
Prescribing of drugs
Prescription of drugs
Drug overdose
Drugs -- Overdosage
Overdosage of drugs
Overdose of drugs
Interactions, Drug
Adverse drug reactions
Adverse reactions to drug therapy
Chemotherapy -- Complications
Drug-induced disease
Drug side effects
Drugs -- Adverse reactions
Side effects of drugs
SAILS ISBN:
9781510715646