When young adults are asked to recall their drinking habits, their recollections do not always match what actually happened, University of Washington et al suggested. This disconnect can make it difficult for clinicians and researchers to fully understand the range…

Between 2023-2024,126 US hospitals closed their inpatient psychiatric units – and that was before the effects of last year’s Congressional Budget Bill, HR-1, took effect. While psychiatric units are often in the red and subsidized by the rest of the…

“We are economists… Our research found that legalization of recreational cannabis use appears to spur innovation, but mainly in ways that expand commercial opportunities rather than scientific understanding or health benefits for patients,” Lucy Xiaolu Wang and Professor Nathan Chan of…

Brown University et al highlighted psychotropic polypharmacy – the use of multiple psychiatric medications at the same time –  as an underappreciated factor in overdose mortality rates. Co-authors Madeline Benz and Brandon Gaudiano were interviewed in Psychiatrists on the unintended,…

This Kaiser Permanente et al study of 1 ,308 ,655 questionnaires from adolescents screened for past-year cannabis use 2011-2024 found that adolescent cannabis use rose after recreational cannabis legalization passage, increased again after implementation of legal retail sales, then fell after the…

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Ohio State University published Collaborative Management of Opioid Use Disorder and Cancer Care in a Patient With Medical Complexity and Housing Instability – she was stabilized on a regimen of methadone, gabapentin, and duloxetine, with several other medications tried and provided…