Now Patients Can Specify Their Care Before Hallucinations Overwhelm
From The New York Times: Increasingly, patients, advocates and doctors believe psychiatric advance directives could help transform the mental health system.
Severe Mental Health Side Effects of Contraceptive Pill: New BBC Documentary
From The Independent: Studies have linked progesterone to depression, anxiety and low mood, but researchers have yet to find an ethical way to prove cause and effect.
Pouring Billions Into Treating Mental Illness Doesn’t Add Up
From The Times of London: Until a proper science worthy of the name can point the way, we should be cautious about throwing too much money at too speculative a profession.
Self-Care Won’t Save Us
From Current Affairs: "In a time where people—especially millennials, at whom this particular brand of self-care is aimed—are increasingly talking about their struggles with...
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid ‘Disturbing’ Rise in Overdoses, Suicides
From NPR: "For the second time in three years, life expectancy in the U.S. has ticked downward. In three reports issued Thursday, the Centers for...
How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
From The New York Times: "According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and...
‘It’s Torture’: Critics Step Up Bid to Stop Use of Electric Shocks on Children
From The Guardian: "A coalition of advocacy groups led by Disability Rights International have written this week to the human rights arm of the...
Benzo Withdrawal: Why I Ignored Medical Advice & Listened to the Internet
From Benzodiazepine Information Coalition: "This syndrome doesn’t have an alarming and well-known word attached to it, like 'cancer' or 'car accident,' that instructs people...
Family Blames AL 9-year-old’s Suicide on Bullying, ADHD Meds
From the New York Post: "Williams said he hopes other families can avoid such a tragedy and urged kids to tell adults when they...
British Doctors to Prescribe Arts and Culture to Patients
From Open Culture: "If we consider such things as art, music, and dance as essential—not only to an education, but to our general well-being—we...
Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement
From Scientific American: "There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells roughly...
The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
From The Atlantic: "DARPA has dreamed for decades of merging human beings and machines. Some years ago, when the prospect of mind-controlled weapons became a...
Should Childhood Trauma Be Treated as a Public Health Crisis?
From NPR: "The study is 'probably the most rigorous test we have to date of the hypothesis that early childhood trauma has these...
Starving for Help: Search for Mental Healthcare Ends Tragically in FL Jail
From The Florida Times-Union/jacksonville.com: " Lauer, of Fort Lauderdale, filed suit in federal court on Thursday, naming the sheriff’s private healthcare provider and its employees,...
Tell Me It’s Going to Be OK: Social Retreat Under Neoliberalism
From The Baffler: "Given that we spend most of our waking hours in an alienated, desperate grind to obtain or maintain a life-sustaining job,...
Charging ‘Dealers’ With Homicide: Explained
From The Appeal: "Without any evidence that drug-induced homicide cases prevent dealers from dealing or users from using, this punitive tactic has become a favorite...
America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis
From The New Yorker: "America imprisons women in astonishing numbers. The population of women in state prisons has increased by more than eight hundred...
The Crisis in Cochrane: Evidence Debased Medicine
From David Healy/the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics: "The mission of the Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993, was to systematically review medical evidence with a...
Social Stigma One Reason the Opioid Crisis Is Hard to Confront
From NPR: "Hope and Pete Troxell live in Frederick, Maryland. Last year, their 34-year-old daughter Alicia died after overdosing on fentanyl – a synthetic...
Masters of Reality: The Trances and Healing Powers of Shamans
From Aeon: "Shamanism is a form of exploratory divination. But this doesn’t yet explain the full extent of its power. The final step towards...
State Bans on Conversion Tx for Gay Minors Gain Ground
From MedPage Today: "AUSTIN, Texas -- More than a dozen states have passed laws banning 'conversion therapy' for minors who are gay, and more may...
Older Adults Willing to Reduce Number of Medications, Study Finds
From Lown Institute: "Taking many medications at once can put patients, especially older adults, at risk of a negative reaction to one or more...
Felitti and Burke Harris Inspire 850+ at National ACEs Conference
From ACEs Connection: "After three days of inspiring presentations, panel discussions and breakout sessions at the National ACEs Conference, the crowd of 850 people...
Family of Singer Chris Cornell Sues Doctor Over His Death
From King5.com: "The lawsuit says Dr. Robert Koblin and his Beverly Hills office 'negligently and repeatedly' prescribed 'dangerous mind-altering controlled substances to Chris...
“I Truly Wish I Never Went to a Mental Health Service”
From The Age: " Premier Daniel Andrews on Wednesday pledged to hold a royal commission into the state’s mental health system, in a surprise...
