After Hours: Gabapentin: A Popular and Potentially Troublesome Medicine

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Gabapentin has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, and some say that could spell big trouble. Michael Abrams of Public Citizen explains why, as neurologist Dr. Brian Callaghan offers a counterpoint. Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends! Support independent journalism by visiting the new Sharyl Attkisson store. Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop! Visit JustTheNews.com, SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:31.0	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.
0:34.8	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:38.2	Today a deep look at controversies surrounding one of the most widely prescribed drugs in
0:43.2	America that you may not have heard of.
0:45.8	Gabba Pinton.
0:55.4	On Sunday, December 4th, I'm going to have a really interesting look at a widely prescribed
1:00.4	drug called Gabba Pinton.
1:02.6	What's so interesting about it?
1:04.6	Well a few things.
1:06.4	One of them is the wide number of maladies that doctors are prescribing it for.
1:11.9	Nerve disorders, pain, sort of unspecified pain, anxiety, and almost all of its uses for
1:19.4	things that the FDA never approved it for.
1:22.8	Now it's perfectly legal for doctors to prescribe drugs like Gabba Pinton for so-called
1:27.8	off-label use, something the FDA didn't approve it for, to try it on their patients for
1:32.7	things other than what it was tested and supposedly proven to treat.
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