David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On the Mad in America podcast this wweek we are joined by renowned psychopharmacologist Dr David Healy.

David is a psychiatrist, scientist and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales, and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University.

He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology and Pharmageddon.

He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and European regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.

David is a founder and CEO of Data Based Medicine Limited, which operates through its website RxISK.org, dedicated to making medicines safer through online direct patient reporting of drug side effects.

In this interview we discuss the recently held World Tapering Day, a possible relationship between antidepressant treatment and sensory neuropathy and the difficulties that can be encountered when trying to deprescribe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.7	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. And I'm very pleased to say that joining me today is renowned psychopharmacologist Dr David Healy.
0:23.7	David is a psychiatrist, scientist and author.
0:27.8	Before becoming a professor of psychiatry in Wales and more recently at McMaster University in Canada,
0:34.5	he studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University. He is a former secretary
0:39.3	of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles
0:45.7	and 25 books, including the antidepressant era, the creation of psychopharmacology and
0:51.8	Pharmagetan. He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide
0:56.4	trials involving psychotropic drugs and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention
1:01.5	of the American and European regulators. David is a founder and CEO of database medicine, which
1:08.4	operates through its website Risk.org, which is dedicated to making
1:12.3	medicine safer through online direct patient reporting of drug side effects.
1:17.5	In this interview, we discussed the recently held World Tapering Day, a possible relationship
1:22.5	between antidepressant treatment and sensory neuropathy, and the difficulties that can be encountered when trying
1:28.6	to deprescribe. David, welcome. Thank you so much for taking the time to join me again for the
1:35.1	Madden America podcast. And I think we've spoken a couple of times before and for a psychiatric
1:41.4	drug withdrawal panel that we had as well with you. So, you know, it's always
1:46.0	fabulous to have you on. And, you know, there are various bits and pieces of work doing,
1:52.0	have been going on with you and with others, with Risk.org and with post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
1:57.9	and many other things. So it's good to catch up and kind of touch base and
2:02.0	explore where you're thinking is at it with various things. So firstly, welcome. Well, it's good to be here
2:07.2	and you have the conversations have always been great. And the issues are probably pertinent to
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