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Mashup Score: 6Smoking Overtakes Injection in Overdose Deaths - 4 hour(s) ago
Study highlights a need to broaden harm reduction services so they are relevant to people who use substances by smoking or other noninjection routes.
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Mashup Score: 2Comic Book Series Tells Story of Teen Seeking MH Treatment - 8 hour(s) ago
A new series written by a comic book author and his daughter, who has lived experience with mental illness and hospitalization, aims to give readers hope and show accurate depictions of treatment.
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Mashup Score: 12
From a psychodynamic perspective, ambivalence and conflict are fundamental traits of mental life. Patients and doctors alike are always managing competing priorities and conflicting desires and fears. Pharmacotherapy is no exception. Patients are almost always ambivalent about taking psychiatric medications. The ubiquity of ambivalence poses a problem for the prescribing psychiatrist, as ambivalence is one source of pharmacologic treatment resistance. Not only is ambivalence a major contributor to
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Mashup Score: 1New Ethics Opinions Available on APA’s Website - 1 day(s) ago
The Ethics Committee continues to serve APA’s members by providing guidance in response to questions from members about ethical issues they are trying to resolve. Recent opinion topics have included the following: Ethical considerations for psychiatrists navigating novel business arrangements, such as serving simultaneously as the owner of a national telehealth company and a treating psychiatrist; see Opinion B.7. Whether it is ethical to screen potential patients for suicidal thinking or past psychiatric
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Mashup Score: 0APA’s Government, Policy, and Advocacy Update (May 2024) - 2 day(s) ago
Members of Friends of the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent a letter to House and Senate leaders requesting no less than $500 million funding for AHRQ in fiscal year 2025. APA is one of 173 members of Friends of AHRQ that signed the letter. AHRQ “supports research to improve health care quality, reduce costs, advance patient safety, decrease medical errors, and broaden access to essential services,” the letter stated. “As the lead federal agency for funding health services research and
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Mashup Score: 10One in Five Who Attempt Suicide Have No Prior Mental Illness - 2 day(s) ago
Study suggests that all adults should be screened for suicidal thoughts regardless of their mental health history.
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Mashup Score: 0When Africa and Europe Meet in Church - 2 day(s) ago
It was a glorious wintry day to stroll through New York City’s Central Park, going from west to east, with a blinding sun warming the face. Solo pedestrians were carrying on telephone conversations with invisible others at the other end of the line. Nannies speaking foreign tongues pushed prams across the park as the motion and warmth lulled every baby into a loveable quiet. I was on my way to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) to follow up on a recommendation from an academic psychiatrist colleague
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ON MENTAL HEALTH, PEOPLE, AND PLACES | My decades-long interest in this religious group is described in Ye Shall Dream. Commentators have noted the movement’s emphasis on liberation theology and improving members’ self-esteem and independence of thought. https://t.co/7IsSQO45nl https://t.co/E1U1VooHPX
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Mashup Score: 0
In my editorial in the previous issue of Psychiatric News, I discussed the risk of socio-cultural factors affecting the integrity of psychedelic clinical trials (PCTs). In light of these substances’ cultural significance, history, and powerful effects (including observable changes in consciousness), rigorous clinical trial design—with randomization, blinding, and control requirements above those typical of nonpsychedelic psychotropic clinical trials—is required. A high level of stringency for psychedelic
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EDITOR'S DESK | In this follow-up editorial, I will review some of the major challenges specific to #psychedelic clinical trials (PCTs) in the domains of randomization, blinding, and control interventions and propose specific solutions. https://t.co/maTpftBroX @APAPsychiatric https://t.co/RHkL0TxDQI
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Mashup Score: 4
Winners of this prestigious award have demonstrated innovative services; a focus on quality improvement; effective use of psychiatrists, peer specialists, and other staff; and involvement of consum…
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Mashup Score: 11
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced in April that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the antipsychotic Fanapt (iloperidone) for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adults. Iloperidone has been approved for the acute treatment of schizophrenia since 2009. The approval was based on a phase 3 clinical trial of 414 adults with a history of bipolar I disorder. After four weeks of treatment, patients treated with iloperidone exhibited a 14-point
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Smoking has overtaken injection as the most commonly documented route of substance use that leads to an overdose death in the U.S. https://t.co/djd323uK3F #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #MedX #Smoking https://t.co/WjDkLdVPzO