{"product_id":"too-many-pills-by-james-le-fanu","title":"Too Many Pills By James Le Fanu","description":"\u003ch4\u003eToo Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening account of the over-medicalisation of our lives, by a leading medical practitioner and popular\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ehealth expert.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone strengthening and cardio protective drugs. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTOO MANY PILLS\u003c\/i\u003e, doctor and writer James Le Fanu examines how this progressive medicalisation of people's lives now poses a major threat to their health and wellbeing, responsible for a hidden epidemic of drug induced illness (muscular aches and pains, lethargy, insomnia, impaired memory and general decrepitude), a sharp increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions for serious side effects and implicated in the recently noted decline in life expectancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paradoxically harmful, if increasingly well recognised, consequences of too much medicine are illustrated by the remarkable personal testimony of the readers of James Le Fanu's weekly medical column, coerced into taking drugs they do not need, debilitated by their adverse effects - and their almost miraculous recovery on discontinuing them. The only solution, he argues, is for the public to take the initiative. His review of the relevant evidence for the efficacy, or otherwise, of commonly prescribed drugs should allow readers of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTOO MANY PILLS\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eto ask much more searching questions about the benefits and risks of the medicines they are taking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eBook Information\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePublished: 24\/05\/2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eGenre: Medicine, Health\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePages: 303\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eDimensions: 198 x 130mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Le Fanu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635198394678,"sku":"9781408709788","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/files\/Book-2025-02-27T104234.876.jpg?v=1740613480","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/too-many-pills-by-james-le-fanu","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}