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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 «...

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“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...

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Walking 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...

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Iowa 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...

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Contagious 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...

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Thinking 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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