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Dr. Rosengren presents ten tips for motivational interviewing to help clinicians listen and help their clients struggling with addiction issues. Read More

Using Motivational Interviewing in Your Practice

At its most basic, motivational interviewing is a conversation in which you are trying to help someone deal with ambivalence that prevents them from acting on a problematic behavior. At a more complex level, it has to do with things like paying attention to how the patient talks and what kind of language they’re using. In this interview, Dr. Rosengren discusses the language and process of motivational interviewing. Read More

Psychedelic Mushrooms May Help Treatment Resistant Depression

Psilocybin, a naturally occurring and psychedelic compound of the Psilocybe species of mushrooms, has garnered the most attention.
Psilocybin is essentially a serotonin 2A agonist. Theoretically, this action should mediate depressive symptoms, but we don’t know for sure because no available antidepressants are direct agonists of this receptor. Researchers from the United Kingdom set out to see if this is indeed the case. Read More

Good News for Smoking Cessation Drugs: Not as Scary as Once Thought

Both varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban) are effective anti-smoking agents, but over the years we’ve heard about potential neuropsychiatric side effects, especially related to varenicline. These include depression, suicidal thoughts, psychosis, and nightmares. Read More

Psychiatry Practice Boosters, Second Edition (2018)
Teaches you the key points of 42 of the most clinically relevant studies in psychiatry published...
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General Psychiatry
Using SAMe In Clinical Practice with Garrett Rossi, MD
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Addiction Treatment
Supervised Drug Consumption Sites
Once controversial, research clearly shows the benefit of these sites, and they have started opening in the United States.
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