Real Psychiatry

The CDC continues to do outstanding work in providing useful metrics for monitoring the current opioid epidemic.  The latest edition of ...

The NY Times came out with an opinion piece of the opioid epidemic on May 16 (1).  In their opinion it was a good thing that Congress had...

I became aware of an article from Reason magazine written by a physician Jeffrey A. Singer titled Physicians Face A Moral D...

From:  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report  (MMWR)   October 16, 2015/  64 (9): 1-14. I am an advocate of real pharmacosurveillanc...

The above infographic is courtesy of the CDC (see attribution for the direct link).  To those of us involved in treating addictions t...

First off a clarification.  I am talking about the specific case where a short acting medication is added to a long acting form of the same ...

This post is intended to explain the bubble diagram that I used in the last post about overprescribing.  It focuses on the physician ra...