Psychiatry

Easy access to over-the-counter medications may play a role in their use for suspected suicides

Relative change from 2016 to 2019 varied from −52.0 percent in Mississippi to −6.9 percent in New Hampshire

Moderate improvement in pain severity and response for products with high THC-to-CBD ratios, but side effects are seen

Both treatments increase patient self-efficacy; improvements from baseline to 12-month follow-up for both treatments in all primary outcomes

Transgender teens have seven times higher risk for suicide attempt compared with cisgender, heterosexual adolescents

The American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting

Mental health hospitalizations for suicide attempt or self-injury increased 41.7 percent by fall 2020, with a 49 percent increase seen among girls

At pandemic outset, significant decreases in buprenorphine prescription fills seen for Black, Hispanic patients, but not White patients

With sustained doubling of Hispanic and Black medical students, it would take 92 and 66 years to correct deficit of physicians

Authors say findings highlight need to screen all teens for suicide risk and access to firearms