Appropriate use of benzodiazepines in patients with a substance use disorder is an important skill. Here are some important considerations.

Understanding Benzodiazepines and Their Role in Substance Use Disorders

The author presents a clinically focused introduction to treatment principles for adolescent substance abuse disorders and reviews evidence-based approaches.

Treatment Strategies for Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents: A Clinical Review

The Chair of a Special Report on substance abuse disorders describes the highlights of 6 articles in the series.

Introduction: Cautions, Considerations, and Treatment Strategies

Here: a review of the definition of sexual harassment, its prevalence among physicians and medical students, its potential impact on physicians and trainees, and guidance about its management. 

Speaking Up: Sexual Harassment in the Medical Setting

The author interviews Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD, historian of psychiatry, about his book Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy.

ECT: History of a Psychiatric Controversy

The authors discuss some potential complications arising from a constitutional ban on executing persons with mental illness. 

Mental Illness and Capital Punishment: Potential Complications

Although a majority of states still permit capital punishment, this may not represent the true national mood: many of these states have not had an execution in more than 10 years. 

The Death Penalty and Mental Illness: An Evolving Standard?

 What's the connection between fatigue and depression, and to what extent can residual symptoms of fatigue lead to worsened outcomes? Insights here. 

Fatigue Symptoms and Depressive Disorder

If you haven’t seen the series or heard media coverage about it, the 13 reasons are a series of 13 audiotapes made by the character, Hannah Baker, to be listened to by the 13 people she felt in some way contributed to her decision to kill herself. 

Why Not Thirteen Reasons Why?

If larger trials confirm the strong antidepressant effects observed so far, botulinum toxin may become a standard therapeutic addition to the psychiatric armamentarium.

Botulinum Toxin for Depression? Emotional Proprioception

In Get Out, director/writer Justin Peele’s provocative debut, the bodies snatched are African American (mostly robust males); the cannibals of consciousness are white residents of an affluent Baltimore suburb, where the living is easy and the politics fashionably progressive. 

Get Out: Invasion of the Brother Snatchers

I was surfing a long board out past the place where you can still smell Coppertone when a ten foot wave smashed me down into darkness...

Surf Story

People with mood disorders (and those who care about them) are likely to experience a healing reconsideration of their own experiences as they read this book.

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