These are some thoughts that seemed related but it wasn’t immediately clear why. When that happens, I usually just write them down, and in the process, the unifying idea becomes obvious. This time, I made the list of streams, but it was something from the outside that said a river runs through it. For as […]
“The time has come," the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes··and ships··and sealing-wax·· Of cabbages··and kings·· And why the sea is boiling hot·· And whether pigs have wings.” The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll, 1832 – 1898 It seems like only yesterday, but it’s been three years since the DSM-5 was […]
ad·o·les·cence [ad-l-es-uh ns] noun: adolescence the period following the onset of puberty when a young person develops from a child into an adult. Home after a long bus ride on a choir trip, she was in an agitated state. Apparently one of the neighborhood girls had been telling increasingly exaggerated tales, stories our daughter knew were […]
I’ve been called out at times for focusing on these older Clinical Trials like Paxil Study 329 or the Citalopram CIT-MD-18 study. I’m kind of tired of talking about them myself. However, there are substantial reasons for dwelling on these trials. For one thing, we’re finally getting to see the back story – the raw […]
NIH study shows almost 10 million US adults misusing prescription opioids in 2012-2013 PHARMABIZ.COM June 24, 2016 Nonmedical use of prescription opioids more than doubled among adults in the United States from 2001-2002 to 2012-2013, based on a study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA], part of the National Institutes of […]
Closing psychiatric hospitals seemed humane, but the state failed to build a system to replace them Boston Globe by Michael Rezendes, Jenna Russell, Scott Helman, Maria Cramer, and Todd Wallack June 23, 2016 I didn’t try to summarize this article because I challenge you to read it all the way through to the end on […]
I almost feel like I ought to make an apology. For the last month, my head has been partially elsewhere – a wedding anniversary of note and a celebration cooked up by our daughters that drew a crowd from our earliest days forward. It’s over now, and things are edging their way back to normal. […]
A Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial [RCT] of a medication isn’t really research. That’s already been done earlier. The RCT is product testing with two important elements – efficacy [does it work?] and safety [does it cause harm?] – and in either case, what is the strength of the effect? Other things might become apparent […]
Some day there’ll be a best seller, a popular science book that will tell a story currently still in the making – and near the beginning the book will have a chapter about the interchange between David Healy and Charlie Nemeroff in Toronto in 2000 when Healy lost a new job because he talked about […]