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Antidepressants: The New Candy?
It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to health care (not to mention modern American society) that antidepressants are very heavily prescribed. They are, in fact, the second most...
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Critical Thinking and Drug Advertising
One of the advantages of teaching medical students is that I can keep abreast of changes in medical education. It’s far too easy for a doctor (even just a few years out of training) to become...
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Do Antipsychotics Treat PTSD?
Do antipsychotics treat PTSD? It depends. That seems to be the best response I can give, based on the results of two recent studies on this complex disorder. A better question, though, might be:...
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Psychopharm R&D Cutbacks II: A Response to Stahl
A lively discussion has emerged on the NEI Global blog and on Daniel Carlat’s psychiatry blog about a recent post by Stephen Stahl, NEI chairman, pop(ular) psychiatrist, and promoter of...
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How Abilify Works, And Why It Matters
One lament of many in the mental health profession (psychiatrists and pharmascolds alike) is that we really don’t know enough about how our drugs work. Sure, we have hypothetical mechanisms, like...
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(Mis)informed Consent
Over the years, the practice of medicine has become less of an art, and more a process of crossing T’s and dotting I’s. “Treating the chart” has become, in many ways, more important than treating the...
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Whatever Works?
My iPhone’s Clock Radio app wakes me each day to the live stream of National Public Radio. Last Monday morning, I emerged from my post-weekend slumber to hear Alix Spiegel’s piece on the serotonin...
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ADHD: A Modest Proposal
I’m reluctant to write a post about ADHD. It just seems like treacherous ground. Judging by comments I’ve read online and in magazines, and my own personal experience, expressing an opinion about...
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Big Brother Is Watching You (Sort Of)
I practice in California, which, like most (but not all) states has a service by which I can review my patients’ controlled-substance prescriptions. “Controlled” substances are those drugs with a high...
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Sleeping Pills Are Deadly? Says Who, Exactly?
As most readers know, we’re paying more attention than ever before to conflicts of interest in medicine. If an individual physician, researcher, speaker, or author is known to have a financial...
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