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Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin92. ADHD: Pills, Profits, and Pushback w/ Gretchen LeFever Watson PhDI am re-releasing one of my favorite earlier conversations with Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist whose research and intervention projects have received international scholarly and media attention, including appearances on TV and radio programs. Dr. Watson was among the first to document drug overtreatment for ADHD in the U.S. and to demonstrate that disruptive conduct can be successfully reduced through school wide behavioral interventions. In her paper, she chronicles the personal and professional attacks she experienced as a result of challenging industry interests. This serves as a testament to the potential hindrance of pioneering research...2025-05-221h 23
PharmanipulationEp. 9 - "Epidemic Caused by Greed: Pain and the Opioid Crisis" with Dr. Andrew KolodnyEpisode 9 features a conversation on opioids with Andrew
Kolodny MD. Dr. Kolodny is a leading expert on the opioid crisis and serves as President of Health Professionals for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP). We chat about the opioid epidemic in the US over the years, the covert marketing strategies used to sell opioids, and opioid prescribing guidelines.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a project at
Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing.
Additional Resources
PROP’s Website: https://www.supportprop.org/
PharmedOut on Opioids: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/ad...2024-05-2347 min
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastHow Pharma Invents Diseases: A Podcast with Adriane Fugh-BermanWho gets to decide on what it means to have a disease? I posed this question a while back in reference to Alzheimer's disease. I’ll save you from reading the article, but the main headline is that corporations are very much the “who” in who gets to define the nature of disease. They do this either through the invention of disease states or, more often, by redrawing the boundaries of what is considered a disease (think pre-diabetes). On today's podcast, we invite Adriane Fugh-Berman to discuss the influence of industry, whether it be pharma or device manufa...2024-05-1647 minPharmanipulationEp. 8 - "The First One's Free and Then You're Hooked: The Problem with Free Drug Samples" with Dr. Shahram AhariEpisode 8 features an interview with Shahram Ahari MD, an emergency medicine physician and former drug rep, that explores the world of pharmaceutical samples. We chat about why samples are the most important marketing tactic drug companies have, how samples are used to manipulate prescribing choices, and discuss whether or not drug samples should be banned.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a project at Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing.
Additional Resources
PharmedOut fact sheet on drug samples: https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/y51hkdvu2dju9sv26fjcc976ivlvwtkj
Su...2024-03-0631 minPharmanipulationEp. 7 – “Rethinking mild cognitive impairment and dementia" with Dr. Peter Whitehouse and Dr. Lon SchneiderEpisode 7 features an interview with Peter Whitehouse MD, PhD and Lon Schneider MD, MS exploring dementia and mild cognitive impairment. We chat about the medicalization of normal aging, the overdiagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, problems with new drugs and tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how to prevent dementia.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a project at
Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing.
Additional Resources
PharmedOut resources on Alzheimer’s and Mild Cognitive
Impairment: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/advocacy/alzheimers-and-mild-cognitive-impairment?authuser=0
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 repor...2023-12-1342 minPharmanipulationEp. 6 – "Fat and fiction" Considering the risks and benefits of weight loss and weight loss drugs with Ragen Chastain and Dr. Joel LexchinEpisode 6 invites Ragen Chastain, activist and author, and Joel Lexchin MD of York University, to discuss myths about weight and health, the hype around Ozempic and Wegovy, and the unclear connection between weight loss and health.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a project at Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing.
To learn more about Ragen Chastain and her work, please visit her website: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/
Additional Resources
Dances With Fat Monthly Workshop – September: Navigating Weight Stigma at the Doctor’s Office date changed from September 27 to October 11 to av...2023-10-2633 minPharmanipulationEp. 5 – “Under the Knife and Over it” Unnecessary C-sections and hysterectomies with Dr. Tony ScialliEpisode 5 invites Tony Scialli MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive toxicologist, to talk about the overuse of gynecologic surgeries – namely hysterectomies and Cesarean sections.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://georgetown.box.com/s/1bdbxvaezezlpu0qsm02q3101mmhsi3a
To learn more about Dr. Tony Scialli, please visit his website:
https://www.scialliconsulting.com/#about
Additional Resources
The Cultural Warping of Childbirth by Doris Haire. Link:
https://www.abebooks.com/9789315600471/Cultural-Warping-Childbirth-Doris-Haire-9315600479/plp
Our Bodies, Ou...2023-07-1128 minPharmanipulationEp. 4 - "How Do We Know We are Sick? Culture, Disease and Illness" with Dr. Sylvia Önder and Dr. Yulia Chentsova DuttonEpisode 4 invites medical anthropologist Sylvia Önder PhD and cultural psychologist Yulia Chentsova Dutton PhD to discuss the differences among disease, sickness and illness and explore the concepts of invented diseases, folk illnesses, and the social value of certain diseases.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://georgetown.box.com/s/ufrrmreu5d26cbfvorbu863uz32qkih9
PharmedOut Conference: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/resources/conferences/2023-conference
Bonnie O’Connor. Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions. 1995. Link: h...2023-05-2642 minPharmanipulationEp. 3 - "Paying Attention to ADHD: Diagnosis and Treatment in Children" with Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson and Robert WhitakerEpisode 3 of Pharmanipulation invites Gretchen LeFever Watson PhD and Robert Whitaker to question diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and to critique drug treatment of behaviors associated with ADHD.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://georgetown.box.com/s/jjei0u9zhtezfqg2i5p83h9per8nzugc
For a list of resources and studies mentioned in this episode, please visit: https://bit.ly/Ep3Resources
To learn more about Dr. LeFever Watson, please...2023-03-2940 minPharmanipulationEp. 2 - "Here Comes the Sun(screen): Myths about Melanoma" with Dr. Adewole AdamsonEpisode 2 of Pharmanipulation invites Adewole S. Adamson MD, MPP, to discuss the relationship of sun exposure to melanoma, whether sunscreen actually prevents skin cancer, and the overdiagnosis of melanoma. Dr. Adamson is a board-certified dermatologist and an assistant professor in the department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin where he studies skin cancer, evidence-based medicine, and health policy. He is also the Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, and he serves as an assistant editor at JAMA Dermatology.
Pharmanipulation is produced by...2023-02-1523 min
PharmanipulationEp. 1 - Unlocking Pharma’s SecretsPharmanipulation is a new show created by PharmedOut, dedicated to the topics of evidence-based medicine and industry influence on medical information and public health. PharmedOut is a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. Episode 1 covers pharmaceutical marketing tactics, industry influence on medical knowledge, and invented diseases. Join hosts Caroline Renko and Patricia Bencivenga as they interview Adriane Fugh-Berman MD, the Director of PharmedOut.
Links
PharmedOut website: https://www.pharmedout.org/
PharmedOut is supported primarily by individual donations. To make a donation please visit: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/donate
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Where We LiveOpioid Use Disorder: A Growing Epidemic Within An EpidemicIn Connecticut, residents are more likely to die from unintentional drug overdose than a motor vehicle accident, according to the state Department of Public Health. Last year, more than 1,300 people died of accidental drug overdose – a 14.6% increase from 2019, and an 88.5% increase from 2015. Through January to June this year, 547 lives were lost to overdose, with additional deaths pending investigation. This hour on Where We Live, we talk to a peer recovery specialist from Wheeler Clinic about her lived experience with childhood trauma, opioid use disorder, and medication assisted therapy. GUESTS: Stephanie Almada - Peer R...2021-09-2348 min
Where We LiveOpioid Use Disorder: A Growing Epidemic Within An EpidemicIn Connecticut, residents are more likely to die from unintentional drug overdose than a motor vehicle accident, according to the state Department of Public Health. Last year, more than 1,300 people died of accidental drug overdose – a 14.6% increase from 2019, and an 88.5% increase from 2015. Through January to June this year, 547 lives were lost to overdose, with additional deaths pending investigation. This hour on Where We Live, we talk to a peer recovery specialist from Wheeler Clinic about her lived experience with childhood trauma, opioid use disorder, and medication assisted therapy. We discuss with experts the need for stat...2021-08-0649 min
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental HealthAdriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical EducationOn MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Gavin Crowell-Williamson interviewed Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). She is the director of PharmedOut, a GUMC research and education project promoting rational prescribing and exposing the effects of pharmaceutical marketing on prescribing practices. Dr. Fugh-Berman leads a team of volunteer professionals that has deeply impacted prescribers’ perceptions of the adverse consequences of industry marketing. She is interested in physician-industry relationships and is an expert witness in litigation regarding phar...2019-06-0533 minMad in America: Rethinking Mental HealthAdriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical EducationOn MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Gavin Crowell-Williamson interviewed Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). She is the director of PharmedOut, a GUMC research and education project promoting rational prescribing and exposing the effects of pharmaceutical marketing on prescribing practices. Dr. Fugh-Berman leads a team of volunteer professionals that has deeply impacted prescribers’ perceptions of the adverse consequences of industry marketing. She is interested in physician-industry relationships and is an expert witness in litigation regarding phar...2019-06-0533 min
WorkingSecond Acts: How Does a Writer Become a Physician?In a special five-episode mini-season of Working, we talk with people who have had “second acts,” that is people who made a dramatic career pivot at some point in their working lives.Adriane Fugh-Berman was a writer and reproductive-rights activist when she decided to go to medical school. She is now a professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University and the director of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that promotes rational prescribing and researches the effects of pharmaceutical and medical device industry marketing on prescribing behavior and therapeutic choices.Fugh...2019-03-2625 min
Pharma TalkThe Misleading Marketing of "Low-T" DrugsA conversation with Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and Director of PharmedOut. We discuss how the marketing of Androgel uses symptom quizzes to convince men and physicians that "low testosterone" is a medical condition that should be treated. We also discuss the dangerous side effects of testosterone treatment and the similarities with estrogen treatment side effects, which took 20 years to unveil.2017-07-2505 min
The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David IntrocasoPharmaceutical Marketing Abuses: A Conversation With Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman (July 10, 2013)Listen NowRecently the French government fined Sanofi $53 million for what it called a smear campaign against a competitor drug manufacturer. Ranbaxy was fined $500 million, in part, for making false statements to the FDA. Last year the pharamaceutical industry in sum paid out $5.5 billion to resolve fraudulent marketing practices. These included $3 billion in fines against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and $762 million against Amgen. When these settlements were reached eight of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies were under "corporate integrity agreements" (that require companies to report compliance activities via an independent monitor for five years). With governments recouping only a portion o...2013-06-3022 min