Pharmaco-HISTORY, Sometimes It Gets Dark!

In the forty plus years (1981- present) that he has worked in pharmacy, Professor Pete Kreckel has dispensed millions of prescriptions, and all of them were dispensed with the intention of helping people feel better, prolong their life, decrease their suffering, and improve their health overall. This presentation will focus on drugs (and their dark sides!) that he has dispensed over the years. The “dark side” of pharmacotherapy includes drugs that were approved and removed, as well as still approved drugs with a very storied history. Although all of us pharmacists and technicians live by the saying “primum non nocere”, history indeed shows that frequently we have done the opposite.