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Study: Rise in ADHD Diagnoses Reflects Greater Education, Not Prevalence

ADDitude

3 Undiagnosed and untreated individuals face a higher risk of fatal car accidents, unwanted pregnancies, serious injury and hospitalizations, job loss, academic interruptions, self-harm, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more. Research shows that ADHD shortens an individual’s life expectancy by 7.5 years, on average. Kuja-Halkola, R.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

His extensive body of work includes Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999) books that challenge psychologys tendency to isolate individuals from history, culture, and power structures.

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Are Antidepressants Weakening Women’s Bones?

Mad in America

This survey collects data on demographics, physical exams, clinical/laboratory tests, imaging results, and nutrition from non-hospitalized participants across the US every two years. This percentage peaked in 2003 at more than 62% of all prescriptions before falling to less than 52% between 2017 and 2020. between 2017 and 2020.

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Real World Evidence and Cannabis Psychosis

Real Psychiatry

A significant number of thise people need ongoing treatment for psychosis to stay out of the hospital. Picador, 2003: 23. Their course is complicated by cannabis use disorder. Contrary to the hype addiction can occur to cannabis with all of the associated problems. George Dawson, MD, DFAPA References: 1: Booth M. Cannabis A History.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism. in Biology.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6 fold for lifetime depressive disorders. times more common in individuals with a history of significant childhood trauma than in controls who did not report such trauma.

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Veterans & Substance Abuse

Solara Mental Health

Those injured during combat, hospitalized, or experienced trauma have a greater risk for increased drug or alcohol use. In 2003, substance abuse was related to over 45% of veteran suicide attempts. Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions Many Veterans with Substance Use Disorder often have a co-occurring mental health disorder.