"People with superstitions often believe in them strongly and may have little interest in investing effort in trying to be dissuaded of their belief," says Dr. Franklin Schneier.
This article by Dr. Mirjana Domakonda questions whether physicians are equipped to serve a preventative, rather than reactive role in the obesity crisis.
“The results may be different if you narrow it down to medicinal use,” said Dr. Mark Olfson, co-author of a study from the early aughts that asked people about their history of drug use.
Dr. John Mariani stresses that rather than thinking about being "an alcoholic or not", it's more important to consider how alcohol may be impacting your life.
. It is essential to continue developing prevention and treatment aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse and possible escalation to more dangerous forms of opiates, said Dr. Patrice Malone.
Ecstasy "needs to be looked at in a very careful and rigorously controlled way to accrue evidence showing what it can do and what its potential liability is," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
"There's a crescendo of voices saying, 'If you don't do X or Y, you're doing it wrong,'" Dr. Catherine Monk says. The result is "a kind of over-preciousness about motherhood."
