âOpioids May Interfere With Parenting Instincts, Study Findsâ
The New York Times covers a recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania finding that opioid dependence can influence the brainâs natural response...
âAn Urgent Call For A National Surveillance System For Inpatient Psychiatric Facilitiesâ
In a blog for Health Affairs, Morgan Shields, Hailey Reneau, and Meredith Rosenthal criticize the Murphy Bill (H.R. 2646) but suggest utilizing this moment to pass...
“John Oliver blasts pharmaâs role in U.S. opioid epidemic”
âAs of 2015, an estimated 2.6 million Americans were addicted toâ opioids, Oliver noted, citing SAMHSA numbers. âAnd theyâre now involved in almost 30,000 overdose deaths a...
âFour-Year-Old Given Ten Times Suggested Dose of Antipsychoticâ
âThe mother of a four-year-old boy is left with a lot of questions after a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy messed up her son's prescription,...
âHuman Rights and Critical Ethical Thinking at The Heart of Everything We Doâ
For the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman writes:
âPsychology cannot claim the ethical moral high-ground. We have seen psychologists complicit in the eugenics movement and in...
âThe ‘Extreme’ Side-Effects of Antidepressantsâ
"I was getting seizure-like symptoms, where my muscles were jolting around of their own accord," Claire Hanley tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, explaining the...
âMacklemoreâs New Song About Opioids, Line by Lineâ
STAT does a line by line analysis of the new song âDrug Dealerâ by the rapper Macklemore. âMy drug dealer was a doctor, doctor,â...
âThereâs Such a Thing as Too Much Neuroscienceâ
John Markowitz, a clinical psychiatrist and professor, argues that the NIMHâs exclusive focus on neuroscience research is failing patients in The New York Times....
âPersonal Responsibility Within Health Policy: Unethical and Ineffectiveâ
For BMJ Blogs, Phoebe Friesen argues that including âpersonal responsibilityâ in health care policy can end up penalizing those who engage in stigmatizing behaviors....
âIn Mental Health Care, Are We Treating the Symptom and Not the Cause?â
In all our focus on improving the mental health care system, are we missing something? Rob Gitin, the co-founder and executive director of At The...
âNeurofeedback and ADHDâ
The Mental Health Review blog discusses several studies comparing neurofeedback to placebo for âADHD.â âMany parents are being told that neurofeedback will âcureâ âADHDâ...
âNIH Awards $150 million for Research on Environmental Influences on Child Healthâ
The National Institutes of Health announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental influences on Child...
âBad Science Misled Millions with Chronic Fatigue Syndromeâ
Doctorâs advice for chronic fatigue syndrome is based on a 2011 study published in The Lancet. âProblem is, the study was bad science. And...
âPsychiatry as a Cultural Systemâ
On his Critical Psychiatry blog, Duncan Double responds to Gary Sidleyâs post on MIA about radical change in our mental health systems. âI do...
âWorldwide Brain-Mapping Project Sparks Excitement–and Concernâ
Nature magazine discusses the many research programs initiated around the world to âmap the brain.â âJoshua Vogelstein, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in...
âAntidepressant Smoke & Mirrorsâ
For the ISEPP website, Frederick Ernst criticizes Peter Kramerâs defense of antidepressants in the Wall Street Journal. âThe conclusions he has drawn are simply...
âHow Childhood Trauma Can Cause Premature Agingâ
For Time, Jeffrey Kluger reports on a new study suggesting that âadverse experiences in childhood can hasten the telomere burn-down, leading to premature aging...
âAmerica is Obsessed with Happiness â and itâs Making Us Miserableâ
âBut the more conversations I have about happiness, and the more I absorb the idea that thereâs a glittering happy ever after out there...
âThe Psychology of Victim-Blamingâ
In a long-read for The Atlantic, Kayleigh Roberts explores the psychological impulse to blame victims for their misfortune and why it may be particularly...
âNordstrom Yanks Prescription Pill-Themed Luxury Fashion Lineâ
âCaving to pressure, Nordstrom has pulled the plug on a luxury fashion line inspired by prescription pills,â STAT reports. âCritics charge that the collection was irresponsible and in...
âCDC Issues Sweeping New Guidelines to Restrict Opioid Prescribingâ
The CDCs new guidelines are targeted at primary care physicians and family doctors who write the majority of prescriptions for opioids and other painkillers....
The Bonnie Burstow Scholarship in Antipsychiatry Campaign Launched
An exciting new scholarship has been established by The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at The University of Toronto called "The Bonnie...
âStill Crazy After All These Years: Psychiatric Lock-Down Returns To The USâ
For Activist Post, Janet Phelan reports on the new psychiatric hospitals being built in droves across the US. She connects the increase in psychiatric...
âGretchen LeFever Watson: The Deadly Dangers of ADHD Drugsâ
Gretchen LeFever Watson, a clinical psychologist, connects the US opioid crisis to the overdiagnosis of ADHD in a guest editorial for The Virginian Pilot....
âGhostwriting: The Importance of Definition and its Place in Contemporary Drug Marketingâ
Former ghostwriter, Alastair Matheson, talks to BMJ about how the pharmaceutical industry found a loophole to continue composing articles in medical journals without admitting...
