Sleeping Pills: An Update While sleeping pills have been around for a long time, the modern age of hypnotics began December 16, 1992, when the FDA approved Ambien ...
Using Psychiatric Meds for Pain Where does it hurt? These are the “four little words” that Eli Lilly (in ubiquitous ads) is encouraging us to ask our depressed ...
Psychostimulants: Bringing Order out of Chaos There are now no fewer than 14 FDA-approved psychostimulants… and counting. This does not include the many generics, the new non-stimulant Straterra ...
Straterra: A Safer Desipramine? The Eli Lilly reps are almost delerious about their new ADHD “miracle drug”, Straterra (atomoxetine). This is not surprising. No pharmaceutical firm has survived ...
St. John’s Wort: Wilting in America America has not been kind to St. John’s Wort. In Europe, this flowering bush that blooms around June 24 (St. John’s Day), ...
Ronald Pies, M.D. On SSRI Side Effects TCR: Dr. Pies, as an expert psychopharmacologist you’ve seen a lot of patients experiencing both therapeutic effects ...