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Consciously Exploring Your Relationship with Drugs
Humanity has a complex, long-term relationship with a wide variety of drugs. In this article let’s delve into your personal relationship with drugs, how you frame them, and how you might upgrade these relationships to be more conscious and aligned with your path of self-development. Let’s include common drug sources like coffee, tea, and chocolate too, so this will be very inclusive. My purpose here isn’t to encourage or discourage you from using any particular substances but rather to invite you to take a more conscious and honest look at your current frames, attitudes, biases, and behaviors, and dete...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Health Lifestyle Relationships Values Source Type: blogs

No, the Poor Don ’ t Always Have to Be With Us
BY KIM BELLARD OK, for you amateur (or professional) epidemiologists among us: what are the leading causes of death in the U.S.?  Let’s see, most of us would probably cite heart disease and cancer.  After that, we might guess smoking, obesity, or, in recent years, COVID.  But a new study has a surprising contender: poverty.    It’s the kind of thing you might expect to find in developing countries, not in the world’s leading economy, the most prosperous country in the world. But amidst all that prosperity, the U.S. has the highest rates of poverty among developed countries, which accounts in no small part ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anti-Poverty Medicine Kim Bellard TANF Source Type: blogs

How AI Chatbots Tackle Tough Questions: Suicide, Addiction & Overall Health (M)
Now that Dr ChatGPT is taking over from Dr Google, are the responses AI gives good, bad or indifferent? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Artificial intelligence subscribers-only Source Type: blogs

Laws on Attempt to Suicide and Euthanasia in India
Devanshi Sharma (O.P. Jindal Global University), Laws on Attempt to Suicide and Euthanasia in India, (2022): Euthanasia and attempt to suicide have gained importance in the second half century throughout the world. There have been several cases in different countries... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 8, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Unmasking physician burnout: a survivor ’ s story and solutions for a healthy medical profession
I am a physician, a urologist, but what most people don’t know about me is that I am a survivor of mental illness, physician burnout, and multiple suicide attempts. Today, I write about the condition of the medical profession, its problem with burnout, and its solutions. I began practicing general urology in 1987. My subsequent Read more… Unmasking physician burnout: a survivor’s story and solutions for a healthy medical profession originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

A urologist ’ s reflection on suicide and emotional anguish [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us for a thought-provoking podcast episode with guest William Lynes, a urologist, as we delve into the depths of a poignant message that left a lasting impact. Explore the story of Mr. G, a patient who tragically took his own life, prompting William Read more… A urologist’s reflection on suicide and emotional anguish [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

From physician to survivor: My inspiring journey through burnout, mental illness, and triumph
I am a physician, specifically a urologist. However, what most people do not know about me is that I am a survivor of multiple suicide attempts. My essay attempts to tell my personal story—a story of burnout, mental illness, and suicide—and to discuss the shame that accompanied these experiences. I completed my urologic residency in Read more… From physician to survivor: My inspiring journey through burnout, mental illness, and triumph originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

This and that
Responding to some of the responses to my last post on global carbon emissions, yes, we agree on the facts, the issue seems to be the implications. It is correct that at this moment, the U.S. accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and we have been heading downward; while China in particular has been going in the wrong direction and is the largest emitter. Maybe " fairness " is an issue here, since the U.S. is responsible for far more cumulative emissions and China ' s emissions per capita are not as large, but given the crisis facing humanity I think that ' s pretty much beside the point. What matters i...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 26, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

From darkness to healing: a urologist ’ s journey through suicidal ideation [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this poignant podcast episode, we welcome guest William Lynes, a urologist and survivor of physician burnout, who shares his personal journey through multiple suicide attempts. Join us as we delve into the four stages of suicidal ideation and the complex evolution of thoughts Read more… From darkness to healing: a urologist’s journey through suicidal ideation [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, suicides among active-duty troops were frequently reported. Since then, news reports have subsided but the suicides have not. In fact, a 2022 report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office revealed that there were more suicides in 2021 than any other year since the September 11 attacks. According to Army Read more… An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Unveiling the mental health crisis in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us for a thought-provoking podcast episode as we dive into the critical topic of mental health and suicide among health care providers. Our guests, Jessica Singh, an experienced emergency physician, and Lorenzo Norris, a psychiatrist, provide invaluable insights into the challenges faced by Read more… Unveiling the mental health crisis in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

The Surprising Time Of Year When Suicidal Thoughts Peak (M)
Rather than being during winter, suicides are at their height just as most people would assume overall mood is improving. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - June 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Suicide subscribers-only Source Type: blogs

New Evidence That Prescribing Psychologists Can Save Lives
Jeffrey A. SingerRemoving barriers to prescribing psychologists (RxPs) saves patients the inconvenience and added expense of seeing a  psychiatrist or other health care practitioner that states license to prescribe psychiatric medications. Such practitioners include family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants—even general surgeons like me. Now comes a study showing that it also saves lives.InEffects of Giving Psychologists Prescriptive Authority: Evidence From a  Natural Experiment in the United States, researchers publishing in the journalHealth Policy used data from the National Vital Statistics Sys...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

The tragic story of Mr. G: a painful journey towards understanding suicide
A most memorable message awaited me on my desk one morning: a brief note from Mrs. G asking, “Why did my husband take his own life today?” Startled, I reflected on Mr. G’s history as I had been treating him in my urology clinic for the past few months. It had recently come to my Read more… The tragic story of Mr. G: a painful journey towards understanding suicide originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Legalizing Organ Sales
This article appeared onSubStack on May 25, 2023.Organ sales are illegal in the United States and most other countries (Iran is a  partial exception). The National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984states, “it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce.” The penalty for breaking the law is a fine of $50,000 or up to five years in prison , or both.In Libertarian Land, organ markets are legal. This makes everyone better off.Consider first kidneys. People have ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs