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Updates on critical psychiatry postings across the Internet.

Video Games By Prescription Continue Developing

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"Is this the future of medicine?" asks Stephen Armstrong in the British Medical Journal. "Little Artie has been left at the doorstep of his...

How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus

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From The New York Times: "Try to maintain a routine as much as you possibly can. Rebecca Kanthor, a Shanghai-based reporter, wrote a piece...

Conference on Re-Visioning Madness & Extreme States

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On December 12-14, California's Esalen institute will host a conference called, Re-Visioning Madness: Compassionately Responding to People in Extreme States. "Esalen co-founders Richard Price...

“West Virginia Allows Painkiller Addicts to Sue Prescribing Doctors”

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“CBS News went to West Virginia, a state that is attempting a drastic solution: allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked.”

“5 Ways Drug Makers and the Health Care Industry Are Shaping Campaigns”

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For STAT, Sheila Kaplan reports how the pharmaceutical industry is lobbying presidential candidates and making major contributions, even to candidates who have criticized the...

“Drug and Device Makers Paid $6.5 Billion to Docs and Teaching Hospitals Last Year”

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From Ed Silverman with Pharmalot: “Drug and device makers paid nearly $6.5 billion in payments to doctors and teaching hospitals last year, according to...

Trauma and Misdiagnosis in Childhood Bipolar Disorder

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Psychology Today offers a psychoanalytic perspective on childhood bipolar disorder that finds trauma at the root, a view that sees Beyond Meds as extending beyond the diagnoses...

“Neuroleptics Inappropriately Continued Upon ICU Discharge”

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This study brings awareness to inappropriate continuation of neuroleptic medications beginning in the ICU, or other specialized hospital units that typically downgrade patients and...

“Warrior Genes” More Fiction Than Science

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Writing in the Genetic Literacy Project, David Warmflash discusses a recent study that identified two genes "associated with violent crime." Even though people with...

“As Suicide Rates Rise, Researchers Separate Thoughts from Actions”

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“Suicide rates in the United States have been rising, especially among veterans and members of the armed forces. Traditional assumptions about why people kill themselves have not led to effective strategies for suicide prevention,” psychologist Craig Bryan tells Science News. “So in recent years, psychologists and others have been reconsidering basic beliefs about why people carry out the ultimate act of self-destruction.”

“The Hefty Price of ‘Study Drugs’ Misuse on College Campuses”

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For the Conversation, Binghamton University researcher Lina Begdache tackles the issue of the growing use of 'Study Drugs' in the student population. “Animal studies show...

Ontario Bill Will Reveal Drug Company Payments to Doctors

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From the Toronto Star: The province of Ontario has introduced a new transparency bill that will require pharmaceutical and medical device companies to disclose payments they make...

“Why did Thalidomide’s Makers Ignore Warnings About Their Drug?”

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Sociologist Garry Gray examines the institutional pressures and systemic failings that allow unsafe drugs to hit the market. “Research integrity and the institutional structures that support scientific research are key to understanding and eliminating scientific compromises. Without this understanding, we can’t truly progress beyond the 'Grünenthal science' that underscored the thalidomide tragedy.”

“This Canadian Lab Spent 20 Years Ruining Lives”

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"Scientific evidence is often complicated and cloaked in a belief that reputable and experienced doctors providing expert evidence in court can't be wrong," Brown...

“Mass Shootings’ Most Invisible Victims: The Severely Mentally Ill. We are not the Villains”

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On her blog, A Disordered World, psychiatric survivor Jeanene Harlick writes that “prejudicial rhetoric about the mentally ill, following mass shootings, is exacerbating the already-overwhelming stigma, discrimination and oppression we experience as an unrecognized and disadvantaged minority group.”

“Dancing Out of Depression With 5 Rhythm Classes”

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The Daily Echo features "5 Rhythms" dance classes as an alternative treatment for depression.  "Based on methods developed by Gabrielle Roth in the 1970s, the...

“Judge Orders Release of Secret OxyContin Records Sought by STAT”

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A Kentucky judge has ruled that Purdue Pharma will have to release secret documents about the marketing of OxyContin, a potent pain pill that...

“The Songs that Saved Your Life”

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British psychologist Jay Watts explores the impacts of spontaneous recollections of songs and poems on people struggling with different types of mental distress in...

“Therapeutic” Boot Camps for Teens Still Out of Control

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The Atlantic investigates the brutal "training" and "therapy" regimes and chronic abuses still going on at psychological and physical boot camps for "troubled teens"...

“The Suicide Detective”

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The New York Times tells the story of Matthew Knock, director of Harvard University's Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research, who recently received a...

University Owes Mistreated Psychiatric Subjects an Apology

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The University of Minnesota recently announced that it is ending the controversial practice of recruiting study participants from patients involuntarily being held in their psychiatric unit. In a commentary for Minnesota’s Star Tribune, bioethicist and MIA contributor Carl Elliot reports that the university has still not apologized to the patient who spoke out against this practice. Instead, “the university has done its best to discredit him.”

iPhone Becoming Comprehensive Health and Mental Health Monitor

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-The iPhone is becoming a diagnostic tool drawing medical and mental health data from millions of potential customers.

“New Plan to Treat Schizophrenia Is Worth Added Cost, Study Says”

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Benedict Carey of the New York Times reports on the success of new schizophrenia and psychosis programs that provide family counseling and job and...

“Study Shows Addyi is Not ‘Female Viagra’ by Any Stretch of the Imagination”

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Pharmaguy covers a study published in JAMA this month which found that Addyi, the new drug approved by the FDA to treat low sexual...

New Study Examines How Police Killings Affect Black Americans

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From PBS News Hour: "Police killings of unarmed black Americans negatively affect the mental health of black adults in the states where the fatal incidents...