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Drug-Induced Psychotic Symptoms, Including Hallucinations
November 2022
Learn about the numerous prescription medications and some over-the-counter drugs that can cause psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations.
Corticosteroid Drug Interactions
November 2010
This article discusses 36 drugs that, when used by people also using a corticosteroid, can either cause toxic interactions with the steroid or decrease the steroid's effectiveness.
Aripiprazole (ABILIFY) Drug Interactions
April 2010
The article lists 53 drugs that can interact with the psychiatric drug ABILIFY to either increase the amount in the body, which can lead to toxicity, or decrease the amount rendering the drug less effective.
Digoxin Drug Interactions
March 2010
The article lists 35 different interacting drugs that can either increase blood levels of digoxin, leading to the serious problem of digitalis toxicity or decrease blood levels, causing the drug to be less effective.
Quetiapine (SEROQUEL) Interactions With Other Drugs
February 2010
Quetiapine (SEROQUEL) can interact with 26 different drugs, increasing its blood levels and causing dangerous side effects such as slowed breathing, dizziness and fainting. The article also lists 10 other interacting drugs that can result in lower blood levels, rendering the drug less effective.
Oxycodone: Be Careful What You Take With It
September 2009
The article lists 24 drugs that can increase the toxicity of oxycodone if taken together with the drug and 11 other drugs that can weaken its effectiveness as a painkiller if they are simutaneously used.
Drug Induced Psychiatric Symptoms (Part 2)
November 2002
This is the second of a two-part series on drug-induced psychiatric symptoms that began in last month’s Worst Pills, Best Pills News. The information is based on the July 8, 2002 issue of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. Article lists drugs and adverse effects.

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Letter in The Lancet detailing unethical nevirapine trials. (HRG Publication #1500)
Although Laura Guay and colleagues' study on the effectiveness of nevirapine in reducing perinatal HIV-1 transmission offers hope for reducing the enormous global toll of HIV-1 infection, their work remains deeply unethical. For 14 months after an antepartum and intrapartum regimen of zidovudine was shown in Thailand to reduce HIV-1 transmission by 51%,2 Guay and colleagues continued to enrol participants without providing antepartum antiretroviral drugs.
Letter to the National Institutes of Health regarding their position on future studies of HIV-infected pregnant women since nevirapine was shown to reduce the risk of transmission. (HRG Publication #1498)
One might think that the development of this extremely cost-effective regimen ($40 per infant life saved) would result in an immediate change in NIH policy. But testimony delivered by Jack Killen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on September 16, 1999 suggests otherwise.