{"id":6613,"date":"2014-10-14T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:28:51","slug":"when-drugs-do-more-harm-than-good-three-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/health-medicine\/when-drugs-do-more-harm-than-good-three-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"When Drugs Do More Harm Than Good &#8211; Three Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/28521.jpg\" alt=\"27760\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently published research in <a href=\"http:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\">The American Journal of Psychiatry<\/a> shows that steroid therapies can cause neuropsychiatric damage.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly prescribed medications such as prednisone can lead to erratic and self-destructive behavior among patients. Dr. Lewis Judd and Dr. Sherwood Brown, two of the paper\u2019s authors, sat down with Nick Binkley of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianafoundation.com\/\">Diana Foundation<\/a> to share their findings in-depth. Here are three great takeaways from their discussion:<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Glucocorticoid treatment is associated with a seven-fold increased risk of a suicide or suicide attempt.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Women appear more likely to develop depression during glucocorticoid treatment while men may be at greater risk for mania, delirium, confusion or disorientation.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Despite the prevalence and potential seriousness of adverse effects, patients are often not warned about the risks before starting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and find out how patients and doctors can work together to reduce risk factors, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28521\">When Drugs Do More Harm Than Good: Adverse Effects of Glucocorticoids on the Brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently published research in The American Journal of Psychiatry shows that steroid therapies can cause neuropsychiatric damage. Commonly prescribed medications such as prednisone can lead to erratic and self-destructive behavior among patients. Dr. Lewis Judd and Dr. Sherwood Brown, two of the paper\u2019s authors, sat down with Nick Binkley of the Diana Foundation to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}