* Video blogs for teen characters. Mindspace features fictional, composite personalities, such as "KyIe," "Nicole," and "Stephanie," who chronicle their struggles through video posts. Their stories about using drugs or suffering from depression unfold through updates. Any teen who visits the site can "friend" the characters and follow their stories. Additional characters will be added in coming weeks. Social networking sites present a unique opportunity to help teenagers with mental health problems," said Dr. David Rosin, Deputy Commissioner for Mental Hygiene. "By reaching out to young people where they socialize, in a style they can relate to, we make it easier for them to talk and seek help. "Many teens are reluctant to seek help," said Dr. MyIa Harrison, Assistant Commissioner for...
West Virginia University has boosted its research effort by recruiting two scientists who hope their work will lead to the design of better drugs for depression, coronary disease and asthma. James O'Donnell, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine's pharmacology department, will come to WVU's Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center in Morgantown next month, where he will continue work involving how drugs interact with a particular enzyme to produce anti-depressant and memory-enhancing effects.
Patients ordering drugs online for depression and insomnia instead received schizophrenia medication that caused them to seek emergency medical treatment for breathing problems, the Food and Drug Administration learned yesterday. Internet orders for Sanofi-Aventis SA's Ambien, Pfizer Inc.'s Xanax, Forest Laboratories Inc.'s Lexapro and Wyeth's Ativan, arrived labeled as the right medication but later proved to contain the powerful anti-psychotic drug haloperidol, made by Janssen Pharmaceutica in Belgium, which is owned by New Brunswick, N.J., company Johnson & Johnson.
Dear Dr. Camardi: I just don't know what to make of all of this, but my father is on three -- oh yes, three -- drugs for his depression and none does anything for him. And he was on two others before those. In fact, I think he's worse for them.
Both deaths appeared to be the result of drug overdoses, and toxicology reports later confirmed it-both men died with large amounts of oxycodone (a powerful painkiller sold as OxyContin) in their bloodstreams. Johnson was taking prescription drugs for depression, anxiety, and back pain, but William Closson, a forensic toxicologist who reviewed the autopsy report, tells the Voice that the oxycodone, at 1.1 milligrams per liter of blood, was more prevalent than the other substances.
WASHINGTON - Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning - in a black box on the label - that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, the government's scientific advisers decided Tuesday. It's a rare risk, and therefore families need detailed information on how to balance that concern with the need to treat depression, which itself can lead to suicide, cautioned advisers to the Food and Drug Administration.
The old saying "talk is cheap" has new, worrisome meaning. Because health insurers pay less for talk therapy than they used to, psychiatrists are quickly prescribing drugs for depression and anxiety, not putting patients "on the couch. The New York Times reports few U.S. psychiatrists offer Sigmund Freud-style talk therapy these days because insurers' reimbursements don't make it worth their while. That leaves talk therapy mostly to lower-cost psychologists and social workers, who aren't physicians and can't prescribe drugs.
Testifying despite the prosecutor's objections, a psychiatrist who treated John C. Gaumer's murder victim seven years ago told a sentencing hearing Monday that the young woman had been hospitalized for major depression and substance abuse. Gaumer, 23, a former University of Maryland, Baltimore County student, killed Josie P. Brown in December, 2005, just hours after the two had met on the Internet site MySpace.Com. He was convicted last week of first-degree murder and first-degree rape and could receive the death penalty for his crime. The hearing to decide on his fate opened Monday morning.
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