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Medical Marijuana: More Questions than Answers
With 23 states and the District of Columbia having enacted medical marijuana laws as of August 2014, it is important that psychiatrists be able to address questions about medical marijuana from patients, families, and other health care professionals. The author discusses the medical literature on synthetic cannabinoids and medical marijuana. The synthetic cannabinoids dronabinol and nabilone are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy and appetite stimulation in patients with wasting diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Re...
Source: Journal of Psychiatric Practice - September 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Practitioner's Corner Source Type: research

Medical Marijuana: A Potpourri of the Evidence Base, Clinical, Neurodevelopmental, Legal, Ethical, and Research Issues
Medical marijuana policies currently exist in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Child and adolescent psychiatrists are faced with requests for medical marijuana by youth and parents. Federal law prohibits distribution or dispensing marijuana, whereas states are permissive in allowing physicians to certify or recommend its use. Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug with high potential for abuse. The state-qualified conditions cover a range of conditions, some with a strong evidence base for benefit, such as chemotherapy-associated nausea and vomiting, whereas other conditions include ASD, PTSD, and Tourette ’...
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gail A. Edelsohn, Catherine A. Martin Tags: Clinical Perspectives 66 Source Type: research

Depression Kills
Last month, I was sitting on my sofa with my laptop when I saw the headline “Robin Williams Found Dead.” I was shocked and deeply saddened by the news and the loss. It seemed like such a conundrum as to why someone with his persona would commit suicide. As more information was revealed about his addictions, his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, and his dealing with severe depression, I totally understood how this unfortunate incident could occur. Of course, the naysayers had to emerge and utter incoherent ramblings about cowardice and his leftist views that made him unhappy. All of the unintelligent garbage that gets re...
Source: Psych Central - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vince G. Sparks Tags: Cognitive-Behavioral Depression Disorders General Grief and Loss Personal Stories Psychotherapy Suicide Disease Model Robin Williams Stigma Source Type: news

Spanish Adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Participants With Cancer: Study Protocol of a Randomized Control Trial
This study will provide results that confirm the efficacy of the MCP in Spanish participants with cancer.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov; https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/prs/app/template/Home.vm?uid=U0005WS9&ts=4&sid=S000BOTT&cx=bvr2ue, identifier NCT05197348
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - July 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Will to Live
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friederich Nietzche Hospital beds are filled with people whose bodies are connected to machinery that keeps hearts pumping, lungs expanding and contracting, tubes providing nourishment and draining excess fluids. These are external forces offering life sustaining activity. It may very well be, that in combination with an intangible… the will to live keeps them from crossing over the line between this life and the next. In recent conversation with a friend, she posed the question: “What do you think gives people the will to live when they are in chr...
Source: Psych Central - October 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Depression Grief and Loss Happiness Healthy Living Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Esteem Chronic Pain Existentialism Irritability Meaning Of Life Mood Swings Optimism Resilience Terminal Illness will to live Source Type: news

Cannabis and neuropsychiatry, 1: benefits and risks.
Authors: Andrade C Abstract Cannabis is popularly believed to be a relatively benign substance. Cannabis is also considered to have potential medical benefits, and medical marijuana has been legislated in many parts of the world. However, a recent meta-analysis found that cannabinoids were associated with only modest benefits for chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting, small and inconsistent benefits for pain and spasticity, and inconclusive benefits for other indications such as improvement of appetite and weight, reduction in tic severity, and improvement of mood or sleep. On the flip side, cannabinoids and can...
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - June 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research

Quality of Life of People with Cancer in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Systematic Review
CONCLUSION: This systematic review demonstrated up-to-date evidence regarding the quality of life of cancer patients in the COVID-19 era in India. No research has been done to assess the quality of life of cancer patients. Still, the area is unrevealed, but evidence from other global studies indicates an altered quality of life for cancer patients. To maintain quality of life, cancer physicians should make evidence-based decisions and incorporate multidisciplinary management into decision making.PMID:35444705 | PMC:PMC8985464 | DOI:10.2174/1745017902117010280
Source: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kusum K Rohilla C Vasantha Kalyani Sweety Gupta Amit Gupta Manoj Gupta Source Type: research