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Diego, a 41-year-old construction supervisor in Albuquerque, was started on a six-week taper of high-dose prednisone for severe poison oak dermatitis after a hiking trip. By the second week he was sleeping three hours a night, talking faster than his wife had ever heard, planning to refinance the house to fund a side business in … Read more
Priya, a 28-year-old graphic designer in Minneapolis, started aripiprazole for bipolar II depression on a Friday and by Monday morning she could not sit through a meeting, could not lie still in bed, could not stop pacing the apartment her husband had begun watching her circle like a zoo animal. She described the feeling as … Read more