June 23, 2015
Like in many other
states, foster children in Pennsylvania are being given psychotropic drugs by
physicians at rates that are "disturbing" and
"unacceptable," according to a press release and new report from the
state's Department of Human Services (DHS). The state government also announced
its plans to try to rein in the practice.More →
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June 22, 2015
The odds of a child with
Down syndrome being on a psychotropic medication increase steadily with age,
according to a study in the Journal of Developmental &
Behavioral Pediatrics. By the time they are teenagers, about 25% are taking one or
more psychiatric drugs.More →
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and Adolescents | Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Psychiatric
Drugs
June 21, 2015
"A&E staff are
often unsympathetic to patients suffering a mental health crisis and judgmental
about injuries they have inflicted on themselves," stated The
Guardian about a report from the Care Quality Commission. After
investigating the country's hospital emergency departments, the Commission
found doctors and nurses to be "unhelpful," and lacking in
"basic respect" towards people suffering emotional crises. And those
professionals with higher levels of mental health training were often rated the
worst by patients.More →
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June 20, 2015
Continuing to take
antidepressants during pregnancy was associated with higher rates of depressive
relapses, hospitalizations and self-harming than stopping antidepressants,
according to a study in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug
Safety.More →
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Drugs
June 19, 2015
Early intervention in
psychosis (EIP) efforts have not delivered on their promise of preventing more
serious schizophrenia from developing, according to a review of the literature
published in Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry. And
the problem may be, the authors argued, that EIP efforts actually still come
too late while attempting to address the wrong causes.More →
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and Adolescents | Early
Intervention | Featured News | In the News | Schizophrenia
and Psychosis
June 18, 2015
The relative
effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in alleviating depression
has been declining steadily for the past 40 years, according to a study
in Psychological Bulletin.More →
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June 18, 2015
Alongside increasing
urbanization, China's rates of schizophrenia have gone up dramatically since
1990, according to a World Psychiatry letter
from an international team of researchers.More →
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June 17, 2015
The studies that led to
warnings from health regulators against prescribing antipsychotics to elderly
patients with dementia were biased, and there is actually no significant
increase in risk of death linked to the drugs, according to a study in
the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. To
arrive at these findings, University of Groningen researchers explained that
they focused their analysis on only small, short-term clinical trials with data
of generally "poor" quality.More →
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Drugs | Seniors
June 17, 2015
An equal percentage of
young people will start misusing ADHD-related and other stimulant drugs for the
first time at age 13, as will start at age 20, according to a study in Drug
and Alcohol Dependence. The study challenges common beliefs that
most stimulant misuse begins among college students, the author stated.More →
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and Adolescents | Drug Page | Featured News | In the News | In the News | Stimulants | Substance
Abuse/Addiction
June 16, 2015
"A Pfizer Inc.
report shows a scientist warned executives last year about a potential link
between the anti-depressant drug Zoloft and birth defects, and recommended
changes to the medication’s safety warning," reported Bloomberg.
June 15, 2015
Taking antidepressant or
benzodiazepine medications are both associated with increased risks that a
person will commit a homicide, according to a study from Finland published in
a World Psychiatry letter.More →
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June 14, 2015
The man who deliberately
crashed a Germanwings commercial airliner with 150 passengers aboard was
actively in psychiatric treatment at the time, reported the New
York Times.More →
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June 13, 2015
Public school
accountability requirements initiated by the No
Child Left Behind Act are associated with significant increases in diagnoses of
ADHD among poorer children, reported a study in Psychiatric
Services in Advance. Conversely, where states have legally restricted uses of
psychotropic medications, ADHD diagnoses have dropped.More →
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June 13, 2015
The amount of funding
going into development assistance for "global mental health"
initiatives around the world from governments, foundations and other donors has
tripled since 2007, rising to $196.62 million US in 2013, according to a study
in PLoS Medicine.More →
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June 12, 2015
A study of randomized
controlled trials that have been published in four leading behavioral health
journals found that new requirements for registering of trials does not seem to
be improving trial design or transparency. The study appeared in the Journal
of Psychosomatic Research.More →
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June 12, 2015
"Just over half of
people with learning disabilities living in residential centres are being
prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs which can be used to control the
behaviour of vulnerable residents," reported The
Irish Times.More →
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June 11, 2015
A meta-analysis of
scientific studies found that the risk of dementia increased 22% with every
additional twenty daily doses of benzodiazepine medications that people took
annually, according to a study in PLoS One.More →
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June 10, 2015
The Canadian province of
Ontario has moved to restrict the circumstances under which police can share
mental health-related information when employers ask for record checks on
potential employees, reported the Toronto Star.
However, the mental health information will still be shared among
law-enforcement agencies, border personnel and others.More →
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June 10, 2015
In a study published
in Environmental Health, Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center researchers found a dose-response relationship between
levels of a common household pesticide in children's bodies, and ADHD symptoms
and diagnoses.More →
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June 9, 2015
A new study in JAMA has
reinforced earlier warnings that taking SSRI antidepressants late in pregnancy
appears to put mothers at a slightly increased risk of having newborns with
persistent pulmonary hypertension. PPHN is a potentially life-threatening
condition.
Thank You MIA and Mr
Wipond.
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