In This Issue: Volume 32, No. 11

Fraud, Waste, and Excess Profits

A report by E. Fuller Torrey, MD on Medicaid and Medicare fraud, excessive waste, and frivolous expenditures-all at the expense of those who suffer from psychiatric illness.

Is This the Kind of Country We Want to Be?

"There has never been a worse place and worse time to have a severe mental illness than now in the United States," says Dr Allen Frances. Do you agree?.

An Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, Part 1

This article reviews DSM-5 changes to symptom criteria for bipolar disorder. The primary focus is on the diagnosis and treatment of mania and hypomania. ©ChristosGeorghiou/Shutterstock

Like, many Americans, Dr Allan Tasman wonders what is behind the glaring lack of controls over prescription drug costs, even for everyday medications. ©PaulFleet/Shutterstock

Where’s the Outrage?

This Special Report, chaired by Leslie Dunn, MD, covers the following topics:

Working With Law EnforcementInterviewing in the Emergency SettingConsent in Psychiatric EmergenciesThe Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency

Protecting patient information is an essential part of maintaining patient trust. What do you do if you discover a data breach? ©Lightspring/Shutterstock

How to Protect Patient Information

For PTSD in psychiatrists and other mental health care providers to be addressed, a major shift in medical culture and thinking is needed.
When the Psychiatrist Has PTSD

Any suicide is a tragedy, but the suicide of a college student-just on the brink of entering independent adulthood-is particularly heartbreaking.
Managing the Suicidal College Student: Advice for Community Providers

If serotonin was once American psychiatry’s “high school crush,” the field now appears wedded to a more mature model of biological and psychosocial understanding. ©aleisha/Shutterstock

Serotonin: How Psychiatry Got Over Its “High School Crush”