Vol 39, Issue 5

Understanding the additive effects of stigma surrounding dual diagnosis with both substance use disorder and a mental illness.

What's the latest update on cannabis legislation and its clinical utility?

"Limiting definitions of recovery to abstinence and the absence of AUD symptoms fail to capture the multidimensional and heterogeneous pathways to recovery that research has shown to exist among both treatment-seeking and population samples."

The prevalence of annual alcohol consumption is highest in full-time college students 1 to 4 years after high school.

A look at the latest in evidence-based care and innovative treatment for substance use and addiction.

“This model challenges the idea that many neurodivergent individuals necessarily have neurological or cognitive pathologies, as well as the idea that neurotypicals are necessarily superior...”

Prolonged grief disorder honors patients' loss by helping them integrate that loss into their lives—transforming and restoring lives of purpose and meaning.

“Respecting someone’s pronouns is vital to respecting the person in front of us and their identity. Gender has a different meaning to everyone. There are many different pronouns, even beyond they/their/them.”

“All of us have already experienced collective trauma... and we are being repeatedly traumatized each and every day."

How can we—psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners—work together to move the psychiatric field forward?

8 in 10 physicians believe the United States cannot improve health outcomes or reduce health care costs without addressing social factors that affect patient health.

Recovery from addiction does not protect against normal life events...

Up to 20% of patients with bipolar disorder have 4 or more medications, so it is important to be aware of these common drug-drug interactions.

In overdose, cyproheptadine may cause central nervous system depression and sedation, as well as anticholinergic syndrome.

What can we learn about resilience from senior citizens?

“In the general population, insomnia is associated with greater cognitive impairment, but its association (and potential sexual dimorphic effect) in schizophrenia is less clear.”

In this CME, review novel, currently available, and promising pharmacological treatment options for treatment-resistant depression.

There have been many exciting advances in telemedicine in recent years. But does telemedicine really allow us to be genuinely present for our patients?

Spring: a time of rebirth and renewal.

One doctor shares his experience from the frontlines in Ukraine.

"Physiologically speaking, what is a thought?” The truth is, we have been unable to answer this question—until now.