Pharmaceutical Addictions

Pharmaceutical Addictions

  1. Course Introduction

    3 lessons
    1. Welcome to the Course
    2. Outline and Objectives
    3. About Your Instructor

  2. June 20 Live SESSION - 6pm PST

    2 lessons
    1. LIVE SESSION: LOGIN HERE Monday, June 20, 2022 - 6:00 PM PST
    2. Live Recording

  3. CLO 1: How Drugs Come to Market in the United States

    10 lessons
    1. Required Resources
    2. Preclinical Drug Development
    3. Molecular Docking: From Lock and Key to Combination Lock
    4. Drug Development: From Concept to Marketing
    5. Lecture: “Drug Discovery and Development Process” (Novartis Pharmaceuticals)
    6. Lecture: “Aspirin Journey Through the Body - 3D Animation” (a good visualization of the ADME system)
    7. Lecture: “From Idea to Medicine | Drug Development at Roche” (begin at timestamp 2:50)
    8. Lecture: “Why Drugs Cost More in America” (a simplistic but effective overview of rising drug costs in the U.S.)
    9. Lecture: “Here's Why Drug Prices in the U.S. Are So High” (specific examples of drug price hikes, ‘turning huge profits because they can’)
    10. Lecture: Intro - Drug Discovery, Development Phases, Market and Pricing

  4. CLO 2: Novel Diagnoses

    8 lessons
    1. Required Resources
    2. Reading: Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients (Chapters 1, 2, & 4)
    3. Reading: Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine. (Chapters 2-4)
    4. Lecture: "Creating Diagnoses" and New Patients
    5. “The Power of the Placebo Effect”
    6. What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe
    7. Why Antidepressants Do Not Work for Treating Depression (pay special to the meta-analyses mentioned, links under readings)
    8. Depression Is a Disease of Civilization

  5. June 27 Live SESSION - 6pm PST

    2 lessons
    1. LIVE SESSION June 27th - 6PM
    2. Recording: Second Live Session

  6. CLO 3: A Theological Perspective

    8 lessons
    1. Required Resources
    2. Reading: Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy
    3. Reading: Anti-Depressants and the Placebo Affect
    4. Reading: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (Review Article)
    5. Reading: Overview of Pain Management
    6. Reading: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book - Intro - 2
    7. Reading: The Antidepressant Fact Book: Chapters 4-6 and 9-12
    8. Lecture: What is Saved at Calvary?

  7. Course Wrap Up

    3 lessons
    1. Wrapping Things Up
    2. Exit Survey
    3. Receiving Your Certificate of Completion