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No one knows a prescription drug’s side effects like the person taking it.

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RxISK is a free, independent drug safety website to help you weigh the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers.

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All drugs have side effects, but people often don’t link the effect they are experiencing to starting, stopping, or changing the dose of a drug. RxISK provides free access to information and tools to help you assess the connection between a drug and a side effect.

 

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  I have personal experience of seeking help with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). I also have personal experience of considering taking my own life by suicide. These instances have been as a result of feeling physically and mentally distraught, and with a fear that there may be no realistic potential for improvement in my […]

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Antidepressants: Education and Disability Certificates
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M. A. D. and Treatment Resistant Depression
March, 15, 2021 | 14 Comments

MAiD is Medical Assistance in Dying.  That little ‘in’ is doing a lot of work. The recent MAiD in Canada: Treatment Resistant Depression post attracted the following comment from Gus – book28@telus.net – that was just too good to leave as a comment. Let’s DisGus Are you people for real? Is this MD for real, […]

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Gripped by and Discarded by GlaxoSmithKline
March, 5, 2021 | 16 Comments

Paroxetine, aka Seroxat in the UK and Paxil in the US, SSRIs, adverse reactions, rage attacks – words to which I wish I had been introduced without so much hurt attached. Late in 2001, aged 21, one of our sons, Shane – one of a family of five placed in long-term foster care with us […]

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Dennis the Menace gets Covid
February, 26, 2021 | 26 Comments

Last March when the world was locking down for the first time in response to Covid, Joan-Ramon Laporte primarily, with me tagging along, wrote a short piece on polypharmacy as a possible hazard for older people, especially those in residential or care homes. Everybody was looking for the drug that might provide a miracle cure […]

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