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A veritable explosion of tweets on opioid guidelines, the American student sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea, Brain Week, "Trump Anxiety," and other issues that were shared and reshared from and around Psychiatric Times' Twitterverse.

The current shortage of psychiatric beds in the US is a major problem. Patients are discharged prematurely and often have to be readmitted or end up homeless or incarcerated.

Stories covered in the January issue included gun violence, physician burnout and depression, mental health/HIV, young adult psychiatry, women's issues, and other topics of interest to clinicians.

Most psychiatrists do not fit neatly into the biological or psychodynamic camps. Instead, like surgeons, they will implement tools that reduce the suffering and enhance the well-being of the patient.