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the chemistry of paint…

( OPINION )

Dr. Insel’s selection as Director of the NIMH in 2002 was a surprise choice. After losing his position in the NIMH Intramural program, he came to Atlanta to head the Yerkes Primate Center. After one term, he was not reappointed [the scuttle-but – too controlling] and then became Director of a Translational Center, a research […]

all aboard!…

( OPINION )

All Aboard! As the ripples from the recently released suicide figures spread across the water, the usual suspects are being lined up to take the blame: not enough antidepressants, too many antidepressants, biomedical psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, the FDA’s Black Box Warning, Tom Insel’s NIMH, Managed Care, the Pharmaceutical Industry, Hospital Corporations, things like […]

off of my plate…

( OPINION )

When I read population statistics like the suicide figures in the last post [what’s missing…], I don’t exactly know what to do with them, what to take away that might help in my own work. Ned Shorter points us to one thing – the dramatic increases in suicides in teenaged girls [Teen Suicide: Parents Guard […]

what’s missing…

( OPINION )

U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High New York Times By SABRINA TAVERISE APRIL 22, 2016 Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It […]

a real loss…

( OPINION )

Gaining perspective on a history you lived through might be the hardest thing of all. How you saw it then and how it looks to you and to others now create a ciphered dreamscape not so easily parsed. Was Janis Joplin a symbol of freedom and liberation or an early slave to a coming opioid […]

i think not…

( OPINION )

Wikipedia: The Journal of Psychopharmacology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Sage Publications on behalf of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. It was established in 1987 and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. The editors-in-chief are David Nutt [Imperial College London] and Pierre Blier [University of Ottawa]. The journal covers […]

easy parking…

( OPINION )

Califf: FDA can’t isolate itself from industry, despite ‘touchy’ issues Califf said the FDA has to work with industry so it doesn’t fall behind on changes in medical science. STAT By Sheila Kaplan April 19, 2016 The new Food and Drug Administration chief says the agency has to work with industry groups so it can […]

Annie medicine…

( OPINION )

Annie [above left on the day she arrived] was a retirement present from my practice partners [2003]. Her first friend, Studly, [above middle] lives down the road, but eats and sleeps here [going home for the odd holiday]. Woofie, above right, showed up after a year or so as a stray, taking up full time […]

brexit?…

( OPINION )

The UK should bid adieu to the EU Boston Globe By John R. Bolton April 19, 2016 Americans generally still see the EU as an economic union. Until relatively recently, many still called it “the Common Market,” though Europeans themselves had long ago discarded that outmoded term. In economic theory, a continental free-trade zone is […]

any lengths…

( OPINION )

Other than the official logos [upper left hand corner], all I can find about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is mass protest and dire warnings – from all over Europe. They refer to it as a Trojan Horse Treaty and guess who the bad guys are – it’s US Again! In the American News, […]