Show 1066: How to Fight Overmedication with Deprescribing

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Have you ever started taking a medication and discovered that it produced an unpleasant side effect? That’s not uncommon. Sometimes the doctor responds by prescribing an additional drug to manage a side effect from the first one. Occasionally a person will get caught in a cascade that results in several drugs to treat side effects caused […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.6	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.1	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.5	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.3	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:31.2	Millions of Americans take pills, drugs for pain, blood pressure, heartburn, or cholesterol.
0:39.1	Can you ever stop taking such medications? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:48.6	Doctors are accustomed to prescribing medications. The idea of deprescribing is relatively new. When is it safe for a doctor to take a patient off a drug they've been taking for some time? How can you tell if the risks of a medication outweigh the benefits? Many drugs can't be stopped suddenly. Withdrawal symptoms can be extremely uncomfortable or even life-threatening.
1:13.9	How can doctors and patients come up with a personalized plan to taper off gradually?
1:19.9	Coming up on the Peebles Pharmacy, we welcome your questions and stories about deprescribing.
1:26.4	First, this news.
1:30.9	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S.
1:37.4	right behind heart disease. Between 1980 and 2014, death rates from cancer fell about 20% overall. That's good news, but there are plenty of
1:47.5	regions that are being left behind. The study published in JAMA included more than 19 million
1:53.2	cancer deaths between 1980 and 2014. Lung cancer death rates were particularly high in Kentucky.
2:00.7	The study was not able to distinguish whether smoking or coal dust exposure was responsible for the high rate of lung cancer deaths in the eastern part of the state. Although prostate cancer death rates dropped in much of the nation, Owsley County, Kentucky saw 26% increase. Other areas of the South also had
2:20.8	higher rates of fatalities from prostate cancer. Similarly, breast cancer death rates dropped in the
2:27.4	northeast, northern Midwest, and southern Florida. They remained high along the Mississippi River,
2:33.2	especially in the south.
2:35.0	The author suggests that prevention and screening programs may be falling short in these regions.
2:41.6	Is it smart to block stomach acid production with powerful proton pump inhibitor drugs?
2:48.3	Researchers in Scotland have found that acid-suppressing medications such as
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