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

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

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

Download this educational supplement to briefly review key recent and seminal articles.

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.

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

Up until her last year of training, this psychiatrist was convinced she only wanted to consult in the hospital-that is, until she met a 31-year-old expectant mother.

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

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.

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

We have criminalized mental health problems-a barbaric throwback to the dismal conditions before the Enlightenment.

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.

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

Do you think you have all the answers? For this quiz, you do.

This treatment is so implausible that scientists first used it as a placebo-before discovering it actually worked.

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.

In the midst of 6 presentations this year, the author notices the elephant in the room.

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...

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to fight.

Have antipsychotic and placebo responses in acute schizophrenia changed over time?

Residency was going according to plan until a phone call changed everything.

Although high blood pressure may put patients at risk for dementia, a class of antihypertensives appears to have a preventive effect.

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.

What do sudden cognitive disturbances, disorientation, and cloudiness of consciousness have in common? Take the quiz and learn more.

An overview of the DSM diagnostic system, the medicalization of normal variants of human behavior, and physician-assisted suicide.

Here's why psychiatrists and other mental health professionals need to understand the relationship between cannabis and mental disorders.

This article speaks to the care with which ADHD must be diagnosed and managed to reduce the significant negative impact of the disorder on the individual, family, and society.

Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in several states. But none of the state statues mandates a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist before the writing of a lethal prescription by an attending physician.

My patient allowed me a glimpse into the suicidal mind. And, in that way, she taught me a lot.

The work of these military psychiatrists who passed away in recent years still has relevance for us.