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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Healthcare professionals should monitor weight and growth in young patients on these medications and consider alternative treatments if adverse effects occur. SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. June 30, 2025.

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Risk Factors for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Healthcare providers must conduct comprehensive developmental and birth histories when evaluating ADHD, asking detailed questions about family behavioral patterns rather than simply inquiring about formal diagnoses, as older generations may have undiagnosed ADHD manifesting through impulsive behaviors, job instability, or recurrent accidents.

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Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria & ADHD: How to Break Free

Lightwork

Mental health professionals can provide valuable guidance and strategies to manage these challenges. For instance, LightWork Therapy and Recovery offers resources for understanding various mental health disorders, including OCD, which often co-occurs with ADHD.

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

For example, if the patient is in the midst of a health emergency or lacks capacity or the ability to engage in a calm discussion, care of the patient should be the priority. 5 Additional Models While ERASE is a valuable framework, other strategies can also help health care professionals respond to microaggressions. This Is Not Me!”:

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Transformation 2.0: The GLP-1 RAs as Psychiatric Medications?

Psychiatric Times

McIntyre, MD, FRCPC Key Takeaways Incretin-based treatments, especially GLP-1 RAs, may address comorbidities in mental disorders and have direct CNS effects, potentially modifying disease progression. Although the 1950s were transformative, the treatment, and prevention, of mental disorders are long overdue for Transformation 2.0.

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What a Difference a Year Makes for Juneteenth Day and the Truth

Psychiatric Times

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Juneteenth marks the delayed emancipation of slaves in Texas, reflecting historical racial mistrust, notably in healthcare contexts like the Tuskegee study. The wrong conclusion is likely to be devastating to the general health and mental health of all affected.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?