Real Psychiatry

I remain very interested in the cardiac and brain complications of medications and substances that are commonly used to get high or create a...

It turns out that Twitter is an inadequate forum for discussing the issue.  Twitter is an ideal format for discovering if a poste...

The pharmacoepidemiology of opioids in the United States depends on a fragmented approach.  I recently posted a CDC study that used a...

There is was - plain as day on my LinkedIn feed:  "Psychiatric drugs killing more users than heroin, cocaine, say health experts...

Nora Volkow, MD - Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD - Director of the National Institu...

It was a perfect confluence of events today.  At one point or another I heard or read about somebody's theory of why there was an ...

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post have released a survey of prescription opioid users to the general public.  Read...

It is increasingly popular for politicians and healthcare businesses to discuss their ideas about how to end the opioid epidemic that t...

Like most physicians in the United States, I got a letter from US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD last week.  The focus of the...

CDC Poster On Opioids For Chronic Pain The easiest place to start the critique of the initiative to stop opioid overuse in this countr...