Topics: Substance Abuse

Download and print this contract for your patients on Suboxone.

Topics: Substance Abuse

Opioid drugs represent one of the great triumphs of medicine, because they are extremely effective at relieving pain. Since the 1960s, multiple forms of synthetic opioids have been introduced, including such wellknown drugs as hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (Percocet, Oxycontin).

Topics: Substance Abuse

If you are a typical psychiatrist practicing in a setting other than a substance abuse clinic, chances are good that you rarely order drug testing on most of your patients. But should you be doing this more?

Topics: Substance Abuse

Motivational interviewing is really a way of talking to people that calls forth their own motivations for change. Instead of telling them that they need to change, it’s a way of encouraging them to want to change.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder

In 2005 and 2006, two trials showed a substantial advantage for quetiapine (Seroquel) over placebo for bipolar depression. Based on these trials, which were known by the acronym BOLDER I and II, quetiapine received an FDA indication for the condition.

The early detection of schizophrenia is a hot topic in psychiatry. If we could detect schizophrenia during the “prodromal” phase, before overtly psychotic symptoms became problematic, perhaps early intervention could prevent or delay the onset of full-blown schizophrenia.

Topics: Anxiety Disorder

SSRIs are the mainstay of medication treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD), while cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is at least as effective. Oddly, combined SSRI and CBT treatment has not clearly outperformed each treatment alone in controlled trials. But a new study implies that MAOIs combined with CBT may be particularly effective.