Ketamine for Pain Management, Treatment of Depression
Ketamine may alleviate depression, pain, and adverse effects associated with opioid treatment, and may thus represent an attractive adjunct therapy for pain management.
Suicide and Self-Harm
Embracing Mental Health Issues in Healthcare Practitioners
The mental health of physicians has been neglected for so long that it has become a national epidemic.
Predicting Remission for Antidepressant Medications
Obesity and sex are differential predictors of acute remission for commonly used antidepressant medications.
Risks Associated With Neuropathic Pain Treatment
Death and serious outcomes resulting from overdose or poisoning from drugs used to treat depression more than doubled during the last decade and a half, found a recent study, with amitriptyline topping the list.
Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Considering Cultural Differences
Despite the clear role of culture in suicidal behavior, it is often neglected by clinicians.
Curbing Depression in Medical Students
“The main changes needed in medical education are primarily structural with pass/fail grading and reduction in class time and amount of information being taught.”
Psychiatric Conditions Linked to Long-Term Opioid Use
Preexisting psychiatric and behavioral conditions and psychoactive medication use are associated with subsequent claims of prescription opioids.
Tool Developed by the AMA to Help Identify Physician Distress
Physicians should take action to standardize care-seeking within their organization, including encouraging colleagues to take time off for vacation and sick leave.
Link Between Chronic Pain and Suicide in Elderly Men
“Having 5 or more health systems affected by disease over the study period increased by >11 times the risk of suicide, and the presence of this multiplicity of morbidities accounts for about ¾ of the deaths by suicide [in the current sample],” the authors wrote in their publication.
Dealing With Suicidality-Associated Psychological Pain
“The clinician’s role is to understand the nature, magnitude, intensity, and frequency of that pain.”
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