October 7, 2024
(Washington Post) – Will West, a 33-year-old who was training at George Washington University hospital in D.C., wrote in a suicide note that other residents are “at real risk” There is no way to know for certain what led Will … Read More
October 7, 2024
(New York Times) – NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech. The Kids Online Safety Act was “bad on policy and bad on the law,” the lobby, … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Washington Post) – Public health officials and researchers say the drop may reflect multiple forces, including access to treatment and overdose-reversal medication. Overdose deaths appear to be declining sharply in the United States, a sign that efforts to combat the … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Slate) – The criteria for the condition have expanded since the 1980s, scooping up patients who say the diagnosis has steered them down the wrong path. But some psychiatrists think that the bipolar diagnosis has actually gone too far—that there … Read More
October 4, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lithium, in other words, has become firmly entrenched in the wellness industry’s extensive library of supplements. But in crucial ways, it is unlike the other trendy products that dance across your Instagram stories. At higher doses, lithium … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry ’s fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say are responsible … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Los Angeles Times) – Children, teens and young adults in Southern California had been grappling with rising rates of depression and anxiety for years before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and made their mental health struggles even worse. Among … Read More
October 1, 2024
(ProPublica) – Until recently, opioids almost exclusively claimed the lives of adults. Since COVID-19 began, though, the rate of overdose deaths among teenagers has rocketed, more than doubling in three years. It’s not that more teens are using drugs, but … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Associated Press) – Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth in the state. Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office filed the lawsuit in … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NPR) – More than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis, be it for medical purposes, recreational use, or both. The shelves of cannabis dispensaries offer an ever-widening array of gummies, drinks and joints. Meanwhile, the federal government still … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Before my visit to Blue Cliff, I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists … Read More
September 30, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 10, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – The F.B.I. is also investigating the large chain of psychiatric hospitals for holding patients longer than what is medically necessary. Acadia Healthcare, one of the country’s largest for-profit chains of psychiatric hospitals, has agreed to pay … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients. In the past, if patients wanted to see what their therapists had written about them, they had … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – As more states have legalized the sale of cannabis, a fractured and inconsistent legal framework has emerged across the country that has prioritized sales income and tax revenue over public health, a new report finds. The … Read More
September 26, 2024
(NPR) – States that passed anti-transgender laws aimed at minors saw suicide attempts by transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers increase by as much as 72% in the following years, a new study by The Trevor Project says. The peer-reviewed study, … Read More
September 26, 2024
(The Hill) – Suicides in the U.S. remained at about the highest level in history last year, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show. According to the provisional data, just more than 49,300 suicide deaths were … Read More
September 25, 2024
(NPR) – COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in the first year of the pandemic. It left many more with physical and mental illnesses — and a gutting sense of abandonment. What workers experienced has been detailed … Read More
September 24, 2024
(Axios) – Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. counties lacked opioid treatment programs or any office-based providers of buprenorphine, which reduces the risk of future overdoses, according to a federal review of whether drugs for opioid abuse are reaching areas of … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Axios) – Childhood trauma can raise the risk of developing major diseases later in life that vary based on a person’s unique experiences and even their sex, new research concludes. Why it matters: Although it’s widely understood that trauma early … Read More
September 23, 2024
(CBS News) – Drugmakers have decided to stop selling a kind of controversial fentanyl painkiller at the end of this month, the Food and Drug Administration said this week, marking an end to a controversial brand of “fentanyl lollipops” and … Read More
September 18, 2024
(NPR) – For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], … Read More
