{"id":661,"date":"2013-09-29T01:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:24:25","slug":"over-the-counter-brain-damage-common-medicines-that-cause-long-term-cognitive-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/over-the-counter-brain-damage-common-medicines-that-cause-long-term-cognitive-impairment\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the Counter Brain Damage: Common \u2018Medicines\u2019 that Cause Long Term Cognitive Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pills-money.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"pills-money\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pills-money-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Drugs commonly taken for a variety of common medical conditions negatively affect your brain, causing long term cognitive impairment. These drugs, called anticholinergics, block acetylcholine, a nervous system neurotransmitter.<\/p>\n<p>They include such common over-the-counter brands as Benadryl, Dramamine, Excedrin PM, Nytol, Sominex, Tylenol PM, and Unisom.<\/p>\n<p>Other anticholinergic drugs, such as Paxil, Detrol, Demerol and Elavil are available only by prescription.<\/p>\n<p>Physorg reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cResearchers \u2026 conducted a six-year observational study, evaluating 1,652 Indianapolis area African-Americans over the age of 70 who had normal cognitive function when the study began \u2026 \u2018[T]aking one anticholinergic significantly increased an individual\u2019s risk of developing mild cognitive impairment and taking two of these drugs doubled this risk.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>From Dr. Mercola:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_pnlDrComments\">\n<p><a name=\"drcomment\"><\/a>Many view over-the-counter (OTC) drugs as safe because they don\u2019t require a prescription. Well nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, many OTC drugs were previously carefully monitored prescription drugs. Many people are not aware that while I was in college in the 1970s, I worked as a full time pharmacy apprentice and helped sell drugs to patients all day long.<\/p>\n<p>Motrin was the first non-salicylate prescription NSAID. Now it is a popular OTC ibuprofen option. Similarly, anti-ulcer drugs like Tagamet, Zantec, and Prilosec used to be carefully controlled. Now they can all be easily purchased in a smaller \u201cOTC strength\u201d that nearly doubles the number of pills required to equal the prescription dose.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a drug is available without a prescription does not make it any less dangerous. It is still a chemical, which in no way, shape, or form treats the cause of the problem and can lead to complications that can seriously injure, if not kill, you or someone you love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/over-the-counter-brain-damage\/#BCm6WXt4d7roABqI.99\">http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/over-the-counter-brain-damage\/#BCm6WXt4d7roABqI.99<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs commonly taken for a variety of common medical conditions negatively affect your brain, causing long term cognitive impairment. These drugs, called anticholinergics, block acetylcholine, a nervous system neurotransmitter. They include such common over-the-counter brands as Benadryl, Dramamine, Excedrin PM, Nytol, Sominex, Tylenol PM, and Unisom. Other anticholinergic drugs, such as Paxil, Detrol, Demerol and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medijuana","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}