Another Mother’s Little Helper?
It pays to watch the AMA MorningRounds news items because I found out about another Mother’s Little Helper, an issue I posted about on November 19, 2011, “Mother’s Little Helper” in the New Millenium «...
View Article“It Ain’t Me”
One of the medical students rotating through the psychiatry consultation service recently asked a very astute question. It was about the epidemic of opioid pain medicine overprescribing and the related...
View ArticleWalking the Tightrope to Prevent Prescription Drug Addiction
By now a lot of people have viewed the CBS News video of reporter Mark Strassman’s interview with a real estate executive’s struggle with addiction to a prescription analgesic and anxiolytic. A recent...
View ArticleIowa Physician Honored for Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse
The AMA MorningRounds recently contained sobering news about children dying of prescription drug overdoses in California. It was front-page news in the Los Angeles Times. The legislature called for...
View ArticleContagious Benzophobia?
I know, I know; I’m on vacation and I should stay away from the blog, but my wife says to me this morning, “Hey, did you see the CNN article about Xanax?” So, of course, heedless of the potential...
View ArticleThinking About The Prescription Opioid Medication Crisis
Just a note today on the opioid overdose situation about which a lot of experts are talking including Dr. Jan Fawcett, MD in the October 2015 issue of Psychiatric Annals: How Did We Get Into This...
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