Dr. Paul Appelbaum said that “it is so easy to assume that people who behave badly in one way or another can’t help themselves when it may only be the case that they don’t want to help themselves.”
Some consider mental health care reform critical in reducing mass shootings. Dr. Paul Appelbaum said that such statements often come as willful misdirection from politicians and members of the NRA.
Dr. Franklin Schneier warned that Kick’s plan to repackage propranolol like Altoids “trivializes both the condition of social anxiety and the treatment of propranolol.”
Users’ chances of becoming addicted [to opioids] increase if they are white, male, young and unemployed and if they have co-occurring psychiatric disorder, says Dr. Carl Hart.
On this podcast in which Dr. Paul Appelbaum is interviewed, the conversation ranged from the history of current settled ethical positions to hot issues in ethics and law in psychiatry today.
