Topic: Phenobarbital

A producer shares a personal experience of being pressured by a neurologist to switch from the inexpensive drug phenobarbital to a new, expensive medication called Fycompa. The new drug's warning label includes extreme side effects such as "ideas of killing yourself or murder" and "forceful actions." The hosts link these types of psychiatric medications to the phenomenon of mass shootings and criticize the aggressive marketing of "new technology" drugs.