Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) have introduced the Community Mental Wellness Worker Training Act to increase the availability of mental health services to the underserved.
In honor of Pride Month, the Columbia Gender & Sexuality Program (CGSP) offers a family-friendly guide to support LGBTQIA+ youth and caregivers and to events taking place across the city.
A study led by Matisyahu Shulman, MD, found that rapid administration of extended-release naltrexone was effective compared with the standard procedure used in the treatment of opioid use disorder.
. 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."
Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum said a neuropathological examination is not unreasonable to "see whether it might contribute to our understanding of what occurred.”
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.”