The unit staff inform you that two patients on the unit are engaging in sexual activity. What do you do next? Dr Najand reviews guidelines for managing sexual incidents, both consensual and nonconsensual.

Muscle relaxants encompass medications with different mechanisms of action—many of which have been used for decades. Yet most are sedating, can have significant side effects, and can interact with opioids and other substances to worsen CNS and respiratory depression.

Do you use email to communicate with your patients? Chances are good that you don’t.

Get some practical advice on how to assess a patient’s suicide risk and document your care to help protect against a malpractice lawsuit, in an interview with William H. Reid, MD, MPH, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Botulinum toxin A, commonly known as Botox, may be more than an anti-aging treatment. A new study has found that when Botox is injected between the eyebrows, it not only has a cosmetic effect—it also yields a long-lasting antidepressant effect.

The psychiatric community continues to debate the value of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) so-called ‘black box’ warning on certain antidepressants, and a pair of opposing viewpoints was recently featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Australian researchers recently reported data on the impact of a program called Resilient Families—an intervention aimed at preventing early use of alcohol, as well as frequent and heavy alcohol use, among adolescents in secondary schools in Melbourne.