Don’t Ostracize Drugs Users – Empathize With Them | Gabor Maté, MD
From The Globe and Mail: "From Abraham to the Aztecs, ancient cultures exacted human sacrifices to appease the gods – that is, to soothe...
As Opioid Crisis Rages, Some Trade “Tough Love” for Empathy
From Kaiser Health News: "Two torturous days later, Jeff Duncan came home. While he returned to rehab, the Duncans decided their approach wasn’t working....
Oakland Trying Out Balt. Model to Reduce Trauma, Increase Resilience
From ACES Too High News: "When a group of community organizations in Baltimore came together in 2015, they already knew trauma figured large in...
Lown Reviews: “The Bleeding Edge” Documentary
From The Lown Institute: "By the time I finished watching The Bleeding Edge, a new documentary about the medical device industry and regulation, I never...
D.C. Faces Lawsuit for Unnecessarily Institutionalizing Hundreds of Kids
From The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: "The Bazelon Center, along with co-counsel Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (the protection and advocacy...
Deportation and Family Separation Impact Entire Communities
From UC Santa Cruz NewsCenter: "The deportation and forced separation of immigrants has negative effects that extend beyond individuals and families to entire communities...
Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings
From YES! Magazine: "According to researchers, the incidents may contribute to 1.7 additional poor mental health days per person every year, or 55 million...
After-the-fact Pharma Payments to FDA Advisers Spark Ethical Concerns
From Science: "Brilinta fits a pattern of what might be called pay-later conflicts of interest, which have gone largely unnoticed—and entirely unpoliced. In examining...
The Truth About “Breakthrough” Drugs
From The Washington Post: "When federal regulators started giving certain drugs 'breakthrough' status in 2012, pharmaceutical company interest exploded.
The goal was to speed up...
Rethinking Resilience
From Fostering Change: "Peer support and collaboration are central to a trauma-informed approach to building social resilience. But many services that claim to be...
APA Maintains Ban on Psychologists at Guantánamo
From Physicians for Human Rights: "PHR commends the American Psychological Association for defending human rights in the face of sustained pressure to weaken its...
A Quarter of Mass. Opioid Deaths Are in Construction
From The Boston Globe: " report by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found that nearly a quarter of overdose deaths in a five-year period occurred...
Addyi, the First “Female Viagra,” Rises Again
From The Hastings Center Report: "Addyi, a drug that made a splash when it was approved in the summer of 2015 as the first...
New Documentary Indicts FDA’s Regulation of Medical Devices
From Forbes: "A new Netflix documentary — The Bleeding Edge — highlights a wide range of systemic flaws in the FDA’s regulation of medical devices. As always,...
Supportive Housing Reduces Homelessness, Health Care Costs
From RAND Review: "On any given night, tens of thousands of people sleep on the streets of Los Angeles, the nation's capital of unsheltered...
The Weight of Trauma: Racial Profiling Has Lasting Effects
From St. Louis Public Radio: "A study from the Journal of Mental Health Counselling found that 81 percent of the African-Americans who reported racial discrimination were more...
‘Dear Doctor’ Letters Convince GPs to Stop Overprescribing
From NPR: "...researchers have conducted an experiment that convinced some of the general practice doctors who prescribe Seroquel most frequently to cut back.
All the...
How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety
From The New Yorker: "Oils’ rising popularity is part of the contemporary appetite for wellness, an embrace of holistic healthy-living practices ranging from the...
Lawsuit: 1 in 4 MO Foster Kids on Psych Drugs; State Not Keeping Track
From Buzzfeed News: "Foster kids in Missouri are overmedicated with powerful drugs that keep them in 'chemical straight-jackets,' putting them at risk of harm,...
Finding a Therapist Who Understands Oppression and Intersectionality
From The Establishment: "...research on race-matching in therapy suggests that for some clients, sharing a minoritized identity with a therapist may reduce guardedness, mistrust, and self-consciousness....
When Doctors Struggle With Suicide, Their Profession Often Fails Them
From NPR: "The medical profession relies on the premise that doctors and medical staff, like highly trained endurance athletes, are conditioned to clock long...
E-book: “Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands”
Sergio Sismondo's new book from Mattering Press explores how Big Pharma controls drug research and marketing at every stage, maximizing industry profits at the expense...
Judge Rules No More Drugging Migrant Children Without Consent
From MSN News: "A federal judge on Monday found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas...
What Is It Like to Be Sectioned?
From ShortList: "'I asked to go out for a cigarette but was told that if I tried to leave I would be sectioned against...
Psychologists Are in a Nasty Fight About a Report on Torture
From Buzzfeed News: "This month in San Francisco, the American Psychological Association will vote on a proposal that would return psychologists working for the...
