Screening and Brief Intervention: Making a Public Health Difference

Screening and Brief Intervention: Making a Public Health Difference

Join Together published a policy report encouraging the increased use of screening and brief interventions. This policy report serves as a primer on screening and brief interventions (SBI) issues, covers barriers to expanded utilization, and recommends ways to boost understanding and usage of this important public health tool.

Common Mental Disorders May Be More Common Than We Think

ScienceDaily (2009-09-11) -- The prevalence of anxiety, depression and substance dependency may be twice as high as the mental health community has been led to believe. It depends on how one goes about measuring.

Deficits In Brain's Reward System Observed In ADHD Patients; Low Levels Of Dopamine Markers May Underlie Symptoms

ScienceDaily (2009-09-10) -- A brain-imaging study provides the first definitive evidence that patients suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have lower-than-normal levels of certain proteins essential for experiencing reward and motivation.

UK Doctors want booze marketing ban

Tuesday, 8 September 2009 10:00 UK

The British Medical Association said the crackdown on marketing was needed, along with an end to cut-price deals, to stop rising rates of consumption.

Coming to Know the Limits of Healing

By COLIN FERNANDES, M.D.

Published: September 8, 2009

Sometimes a doctor must say, “There is nothing more I can do.”

My comment: Great commentary on the perils of treating pain, the "5th vital sign" (surely a phrase coined by the pharmaceutical companies to drive opioid sales, considering the anemic research on chronic treatment with opioids).