Mental Health
Original Research
Drug Overdose and Suicide Among Veteran Enrollees in the VHA: Comparison Among Local, Regional, and National Data
This comparison of suicide and overdose rates seems to support tapering or stopping opioids in the context of multidisciplinary care that offers...
Commentary
Veterans, Firearms, and Suicide: Safe Storage Prevention Policy and the PREVENTS Roadmap
Suicide prevention requires a multimodal approach, and attention to firearms access must become a more salient component of the President’s...
Program Profile
VA Connecticut Friendly Phone Call Program (FPCP): A Collaborative, Team-based Approach to Alleviating Loneliness related to Social Isolation in Veterans with Cancer During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Opinion
Colorism can lead to intrafamily conflict
Dr. Alison M. Heru offers guidance aimed at helping psychiatrists deescalate conflict tied to racism within families.
News
Attempted suicide in high school America, 2019
Racial and sexual identity may affect how adolescents act on suicidal thoughts.
News
COVID-19: ‘Record’ spike in Internet anxiety, panic queries
Investigators found an 11% increase in all acute anxiety queries between March 2020 and May 2020. This translates into about 375,000 more searches...
News
Nine antihypertensive drugs associated with reduced risk of depression
Some but not all drugs in three antihypertensive classes are associated with reduced risk of depression.
News
Near-hanging injuries: Critical care, psychiatric management
Near hanging refers to strangulation or hanging that doesn’t immediately lead to death.
Commentary
COVID-19 and the myth of the super doctor
What does it mean to be a hero, and what is the cost of hero worship, asks Dr. Tanya Thomas.
Commentary
Deaths, despair tied to drug dependence are accelerating amid COVID-19
We need to focus on saving lives by increasing naloxone availability, improving initiation, and expanding access to MAT, said Dr. Mark S. Gold.