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Starts Today! Free Online Course: Psychological First Aid – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera

Trajectories of energy drink consumption and subsequent drug use during young adulthood – Drug & Alcohol Dependence (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Study suggests energy drinks can lead to cocaine use – News.com.au (free text and video) AND Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use – Medscape (free registration required)

Talking therapy given by parents shows promise for childhood anxiety disorders – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of brief guided parent-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused brief therapy for treatment of childhood anxiety disorders: a randomised controlled trial – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND Commentary: Low-intensity interventions for anxiety disorders (free)

“70% of children receiving guided parent-delivered CBT had recovered from anxiety six months after treatment” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Systematic review: Risk Factors for Post-stroke Depression: A Meta-analysis – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (free)

New, Occasional, and Frequent Use of Zolpidem or Zopiclone (Alone and in Combination) and the Risk of Injurious Road Traffic Crashes in Older Adult Drivers: A Population-Based Case–Control and Case-Crossover Study – CNS Drugs (free)

“Car crashes in older adult drivers: Zolpidem (aOR 2.27) > zolpidem + zopiclone combo (aOR 2.20)” (RT @psychopharmacol see Tweet)

Online parental training may help to improve behaviour in children – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Technology-Assisted Parent Training Programs for Children and Adolescents With Disruptive Behaviors: A Systematic Review – The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Starts Today! Free Online Course: Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera

Prevention of suicide with regulations aimed at restricting access to highly hazardous pesticides: a systematic review of the international evidence (free)

Commentaries: Regulatory control of highly hazardous pesticides to prevent self-poisoning – The Lancet Global Health (free) AND Highly hazardous pesticides: policies should focus on bans, rather than secure storage, Lancet studies suggest – Bristol Health Partners (free)

Related: Effectiveness of household lockable pesticide storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Asia: a community-based, cluster-randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free) AND Learning from a negative trial of lockable pesticide storage – The Lancet (free)

“A worldwide ban on the use of highly hazardous agricultural pesticides is likely to prevent tens of thousands of deaths every year”.

Causes of death up to 10 years after admissions to hospitals for self-inflicted, drug-related or alcohol-related, or violent injury during adolescence: a retrospective, nationwide, cohort study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: One million teen study reveals suicide risk – OnMedica (free) AND Alcohol, drug, and violence related injuries in adolescence carry similar risk of later suicide as self-harm – Medical News Today (free) AND Teen Violence, Substance Use: Same Suicide Risk as Self-harm – Medscape (free registration required)

Lithium Use, but Not Valproate Use, Is Associated With a Higher Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease in Older Adults With Mental Illness – The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract -$ for full-text)

Case-control study suggests Lithium is associated with increased risk of chronic kidney disease.

The association of depression at any time to the risk of death following coronary artery disease diagnosis – European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Having depression and heart disease could double death risk – Medical News Today (free) AND Death risk doubles for heart patients with depression – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Related: AAFP Guideline for the Detection and Management of Post–Myocardial Infarction Depression – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Strategies to prevent death by suicide: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials – British Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Brief Intervention and Contact (BIC) to prevent suicide – Dave Cesarini, via Medium (free)

Related article: Effectiveness of brief intervention and contact for suicide attempters: a randomized controlled trial in five countries – Bulletin of the World Health Organization (free)

Source: Psychiatry Research Review

“The WHO BIC is a promising suicide prevention strategy. No other intervention showed a statistically significant effect in reducing suicide”.

Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population: The ED-SAFE Study – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – Free Full Text PDF via @unpaywall)

Commentaries: Intervention Phone Calls May Save The Lives Of Suicidal Patients, Reduce New Attempts, Trial Finds – Medical Daily (free) AND National study shows interventions like telephone calls can reduce suicides – EurekAlert (free) AND Intervention Curbs New Suicide Attempts in At-Risk ED Patients – Medscape (free registration required)

Source: Psychiatry Research Review

“Patients who received a multifaceted intervention that included follow-up telephone calls resulted in a 30 percent reduction in future suicide attempts” (from Medical Daily)

Antipsychotic drugs for the acute treatment of patients with a first episode of schizophrenia: a systematic review with pairwise and network meta-analyses – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: First-Episode Psychosis Drug Choice: No Clear Winner – Medscape (free registration required)

The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Public Health (free) (RT @equitylist see Tweet)

Invited commentary: Inequality and intergenerational transmission of complex adversity (free)

Editorial: Our greatest untapped resource (free)

What do hypnotics cost hospitals and healthcare? – F1000 Research (free)

Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club

“A best estimate is that U.S. costs of hypnotic harms to healthcare systems are on the order of $55 billion, but conceivably might be as low as $10 billion or as high as $100 billion”.

Effect of marijuana use on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality: A study using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey linked mortality file – European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (free)

Commentaries: Marijuana associated with three-fold risk of death from hypertension – European Society of Cardiology, via Science Daily (free) AND Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study – Reuters (free) AND Marijuana Use Tied to Death from Hypertension, Study Suggests – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Marijuana ‘may be worse than cigarettes for cardiovascular health’ – Medical News Today (free)

Starts Today! Free Online Course: Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health – University of Sidney and Coursera

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic (free)

Long read… very interesting.

Committee Opinion No. 705: Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes: Executive Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the March of Dimes Foundation (free)

Internet Searches for Suicide Following the Release of “13 Reasons Why” – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Editorial: A Call for Social Responsibility and Suicide Risk Screening, Prevention, and Early Intervention Following the Release of the Netflix Series “13 Reasons Why” (free)

Commentaries: ‘13 Reasons Why’ might have triggered suicide searches online – STAT News (free) AND Is ’13 Reasons Why’ Helping Kids Kill Themselves? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Google Searches on Suicide Surge After ’13 Reasons Why’ Release: Study – Newsweek (free) Suicide-Related Internet Searches Elevated After Debut of “13 Reasons Why” – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Sugar intake from sweet food and beverages, common mental disorder and depression: prospective findings from the Whitehall II study – Scientific Reports (free)

Commentaries: Too much sugar could increase depression risk in men, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND High sugar diets linked to heightened depression risk in men – The Independent (free)

Association does not imply causation, but this observational study suggests sugar intake has adverse effects on long-term psychological health.

Sixty Years of Placebo-Controlled Antipsychotic Drug Trials in Acute Schizophrenia: Systematic Review, Bayesian Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression of Efficacy Predictors – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Antipsychotic Response Rates Through the Prism of 60 Years – Psychiatric Times (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest)

Twice as many patients improved with antipsychotics as with placebo, confirming the benefits of antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia.

Poor medication adherence and risk of relapse associated with continued cannabis use in patients with first-episode psychosis: a prospective analysis – The Lancet Psychiatry (free)

Commentaries: Psychosis relapse, medication non-adherence, and cannabis – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND Cannabis Use Directly Linked to Psychosis Relapse – Medscape (free registration required)

Put cult online games to the test: There are now vast opportunities to study the effects on young minds – Nature News (free)

See related articles and guidelines on recommended screen time for kids in our April 10^th issue (see #6)

“Abuse of online games does not have to rot the brain to be a disorder worth investigating” (RT @NatureNews see Tweet)

Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus – STAT News (free)

Related: Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide – STAT News (free)

Intervention delivered in Northern Irish and Scottish schools reduces binge drinking – NIHR Signal (free)

Original study: Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme (STAMPP): a school- and community-based cluster randomised controlled trial – Public Health Research (free)

Report: Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use – National Academies Press (US) (free)

News Release: National Strategy to Reduce Opioid Epidemic, an Urgent Public Health Priority, Presented in New Report (free)

Commentary: National Academies Recommend Steps to Address Opioid Crisis – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Three psychological therapies are effective for adolescent depression – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Cognitive behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytical psychotherapy versus a brief psychosocial intervention in adolescents with unipolar major depressive disorder (IMPACT): a multicentre, pragmatic, observer-blind, randomised controlled superiority trial – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND Commentaries: From efficacy to pragmatic trials: does the dodo bird verdict apply? – The Lancet Psychiatry? (free) AND New ways to treat depression in teenagers – The Conversation (free)

“Three psychological therapies equally effective for adolescent depression” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Simultaneous Antidepressant and Benzodiazepine New Use and Subsequent Long-term Benzodiazepine Use in Adults With Depression, United States, 2001-2014 – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Benzodiazepines With Antidepressants May Spark Long-term Use – Medscape (free registration required) AND Antidepressants plus benzos: Is it worth the risk? – Pharmacy News (free)

In this large cohort, patients who were treated with benzodiazepine associated with antidepressants in the beginning of the treatment for depression didn’t seem to have a clinical benefit, and 12.3% of patients who began treatment with both agents had long-term (6-month) benzodiazepine use. Due to the observational nature of this study, it may be that these patients had more severe depression, but caution is advised nonetheless.

Risk of Irritability With Psychostimulant Treatment in Children With ADHD: A Meta-Analysis – Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“MPH decreased risk of irritability vs PLA (RR=0.89), whereas amphetamines increased the risk (RR=2.90)” (RT @psychopharmacol see Tweet)

Helping Those Who Hoard – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Supplement: The Regulation of Alcohol Marketing: From Research to Public Health Policy – Addiction (free articles)

Commentaries: Evidence Growing of Link Between Youth Exposure to Alcohol Marketing and Youth Drinking – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, via NewsWise (free) AND Alcohol advertising is aggressive and linked to youth drinking, research finds – The Guardian (free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)

Opinion: Mental health should be a priority for WHO’s new director-general – STAT News (free)

Antidepressants during pregnancy and autism in offspring: population based cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Prenatal antidepressant use and risk of autism (free)

Commentaries: Antidepressants and pregnancy: study didn’t find they actually cause autism – The Conversation (free) AND Antidepressant use in pregnancy linked to autism in children – OnMedica (free) AND Study finds slight autism risk link to antidepressants in pregnancy – Reuters (free)

Patient Outcomes in Dose Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Therapy: A Systematic Review – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Tapering long-term opioid therapy may improve outcomes in chronic pain, review finds – ACP Internist (free) AND Opioid Reduction Therapy Offers Some Benefits to Patients with Chronic Pain – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND How tapering off opioids can help people with chronic pain – CNN (free)

“Opioid tapering:

– less pain: 8 of 8 studies

– Improved function: 5 of 5 studies

– Improved QOL: 3 of 3 studies” (RT @DavidJuurlink see Tweet)

Efficacy of Tramadol Extended-Release for Opioid Withdrawal: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Psychiatry (free)

Commentaries: Extended-Release Tramadol May Ease Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Effect of Antidepressant Switching vs Augmentation on Remission Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Unresponsive to Antidepressant Treatment: The VAST-D Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Study Compares Switching Meds vs an Additional Med for Patients Unresponsive to an Antidepressant – The Jama Network (free) AND For Treatment-Resistant Depression, Add an Antipsychotic or Switch Antidepressants? – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Augmentation with aripiprazole led to a modestly increased likelihood of remission, but with more adverse effects. “Given the small effect size and adverse effects associated with aripiprazole, further analysis including cost-effectiveness is needed to understand the net utility of this approach”.

Deutetrabenazine for treatment of involuntary movements in patients with tardive dyskinesia (AIM-TD): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Drug Eases Tardive Dyskinesia Linked to Antipsychotic Use – Medscape (free registration required) AND Second Tardive Dyskinesia Drug Works – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Vasomotor symptoms are associated with depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older women – Menopause (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Treatable menopause symptoms linked to depression in older women – Reuters (free)

Suicidal Behavior During Lithium and Valproate Treatment: A Within-Individual 8-Year Prospective Study of 50,000 Patients With Bipolar Disorder – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Lithium Found to Decrease Suicide Risk in Bipolar Patients – Psychiatry News (free) AND Lithium protects against suicide – Karolinska Institutet News (free)

“Lithium, Not Valproate, Significantly Reduced Suicidal Behavior Among People With BD (an 8 y. Study)” (RT @psychopharmacol see Tweet)

Review: Autism spectrum disorder and epileptic encephalopathy: common causes, many questions – Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (free)

Review: Pain and Psychology – A Reciprocal Relationship – The Ochsner Journal (free)

Review: Medication-Induced Tardive Dyskinesia: A Review and Update – The Ochsner Journal (free)

Treating Anxiety in 2017: Optimizing Care to Improve Outcomes – JAMA (free)

“Exercise, mindfulness-based stress reduction = 1st-line treatments for anxiety; move on to SSRIs and CBT as needed” (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)

Prevalence and risk factors for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C in people with severe mental illness: a total population study of Sweden – The Lancet (free)

Invited commentary: Ending HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C: what about people with severe mental illness?

“People with severe mental illness have 3x the general pop risk of HIV & Hepatitis B, and 9x the risk of Hepatitis C” (RT @AllenFrancesMD and @in_psych see Tweet)

A narrative literature review of depression following traumatic brain injury: prevalence, impact, and management challenges – Psychology Research and Behavior Management (free)

Association of Electroconvulsive Therapy With Psychiatric Readmissions in US Hospitals – JAMA Psychiatry (free)

Editorial: Modern Electroconvulsive Therapy: Vastly Improved Yet Greatly Underused – JAMA Psychiatry (free) (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)

In this observational study, electroconvulsive therapy was associated with reduced 30-day readmission risk among psychiatric inpatients with severe affective disorders (RR=0.54;0.28-0.81).

Practice: I am your trans patient – The BMJ (free)

Related infographic: Managing disclosure of gender dysphoria – The BMJ (free PDF)

“Five transgender authors share their experiences of healthcare & the important messages they’d like doctors to know” (RT @bmj_latest see Tweet)

When Anxiety or Depression Masks a Medical Problem – New York Times (10 articles month are free)

Related: Managing Anxiety in the Medically Ill – Psychiatric Times (free)

“Very 1st differential before making a psych diagnosis should be – is this due to medical problem? 2nd question – medication/substance/alcohol? (RT @AllenFrancesMD see Tweet)

Trial of Electrical Direct-Current Therapy versus Escitalopram for Depression – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: A New Brain-Stimulation Treatment Disappoints – Physician’s First Watch (free)

“For depression, new transcranial direct current stimulation treatment is not as effective as escitalopram” (RT @JWatch see Tweet)

Spasticity Drug Cuts Alcohol Consumption in High-Risk Drinkers – Medscape (free registration required)

Unpublished results, presented at the 13th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, suggesting baclofen is an effective alternative for high-risk alcohol consumption.

Co-morbid OSA and insomnia increases depression prevalence and severity in men – Respirology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Combo of sleep apnea and insomnia linked to depression in men – Forbes (free) AND Sleep apnea and insomnia combination linked with depression – Wiley, via EurekAlert (free)

Why are doctors killing themselves? – by Anne Malatt, via MJA Insight (free)

Related: Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus – STAT News (free)

Social media and mental health

1 – Quit Social Media Every Other Day – The Atlantic (free)

2 – Social media is as harmful as alcohol and drugs for millennials – The Conversation (free)

3 – Point of view: Is ‘Internet Addiction’ Real? – NPR Health News (free)

4 – Report: #StatusOfMind Social media and young people’s mental health and wellbeing – Royal Society of Public Health (link to introduction – free PDF)

Commentaries: Instagram ‘worst for young mental health’ – BBC News (free) AND Instagram worst social media app for young people’s mental health – CNN news (free)

Pharmacological treatments and risk of readmission to hospital for unipolar depression in Finland: a nationwide cohort study – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Lithium Markedly Cuts Hospital Readmission in Depression – Medscape (free registration required)

Doctors are prone to burn-out and depression. We need to take care – World Economic Forum (free)

Real-World Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Treatments in a Nationwide Cohort of 29 823 Patients With Schizophrenia – JAMA Internal Medicine(link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Oral clozapine, long-acting injectables tied to lower relapse risk in schizophrenia – Clinical Psychiatry News (free registration required) AND Long-Acting Antipsychotics Tied to Superior Outcomes – Medscape (free registration required)

“The risk of rehospitalization is about 20% to 30% lower during long-acting injectable treatments compared with equivalent oral formulations”

Medical News & Perspectives: More Treatments on Deck for Alcohol Use Disorder – JAMA (free)

Guidelines for the recognition and management of mixed depression – CNS Spectrums (free)

Commentary: First-Ever Guideline for Mixed Depression Released – Medscape (free registration required)

Moderate alcohol consumption as risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Alcohol consumption and brain health (free)

Commentaries: Even moderate drinking linked to a decline in brain health, finds study – Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry (free) AND Moderate drinking may alter brain, study says – CNN (free) AND Even moderate drinking may speed brain decline – STAT News (free) AND Even moderate drinking linked to changes in brain structure, study finds – Reuters (free)

Prenatal antidepressant use and risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: population based cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editoral: The safety of antidepressants in pregnancy (free)

Commentary: Kids’ ADHD Risk May Be Linked to Mother’s Underlying Mental Health, Not Prenatal Antidepressant Use – Physician’s First Watch(free)

Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine – Journal of Addiction Medicine (free)

Source: New consensus document for appropriate use of drug testing in clinical addiction medicine – MedicalXpress (free)

The high cost of childhood disruptive behavior disorders – STAT News (free)

Growing use of smart drugs by students could be a recipe for disaster – The Conversation (free)

“Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades” (RT @ConversationUK see Tweet)

Eating disorders: recognition and treatment – NICE Guideline (free)

Health and Public Policy to Facilitate Effective Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Involving Illicit and Prescription Drugs: An American College of Physicians Position Paper – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

News release: ACP issues recommendations to prevent and treat substance use disorders (free)

Commentary: Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease, ACP Recommends – AJMC (free)

Socioeconomic status as an effect modifier of alcohol consumption and harm: analysis of linked cohort data – The Lancet Public Health (free)

Invited commentary: Socioeconomic status and susceptibility to alcohol-related harm (free)

Commentary: Poorest at greater risk from heavy drinking, says study – BBC (free)

Mortality risk during and after opioid substitution treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Opioid substitution treatment is linked to reduced risk of death in opioid use disorder – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Opioid Substitution Therapy Associated with Reduced Mortality – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Opioid substitution treatment seems to be associated with decreased mortality.

Spend a Dollar on Drug Treatment, and Save More on Crime Reduction – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Survey and commentaries: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free)

Increased in clerical burden seems to be one of the leading causes, heavily influenced by expanded and more comprehensive use of electronic health records. More on the burden of administrative tasks in healthcare in our April 21 issue, see #5.

Updated Guideline: Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis and management of physical complications – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE – UK) (free)

A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel – Harvard Business Review (free) (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)

Original article abstract ($ for full-text): Association of Facebook Use With Compromised Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study – American Journal of Epidemiology

The World Health Organization Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self-Report Screening Scale for DSM-5 – JAMA Psychiatry (free)

Invited commentary: Good News for Screening for Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – JAMA Psychiatry (free)

See also: Do You Zone Out? Procrastinate? Might Be Adult ADHD – NPR Health News (free)

Others disagree… call it “disease mongering”, “overdiagnosis”. For example, Prof Allen Francis, author of Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, wrote some remarks about the study, see Tweet 1, Tweet 2 and Tweet 3

See also: The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Association Between Antipsychotic Agents and Risk of Acute Respiratory Failure in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – JAMA Psychiatry (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text) (RT @atscommunity)

See also: Antipsychotics Tied to Respiratory Failure in At-Risk Patients – Medscape (free registration required) AND Antipsychotics May Boost Respiratory Failure Risk in COPD – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Cancer patients have 55% greater risk of suicide, study finds – The Guardian (free) (RT @ghn_news)

Review: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)

Press release: “Depression: let’s talk” says WHO, as depression tops list of causes of ill health – World Health Organization (free)

See also: Depression: let’s talk – WHO campaign (free) AND Depression updated factsheet (free) AND Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders: Global Health Estimates (free)

Depression is now the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, according to The World Health Organization.

Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system – NICE Guideline (free)

News release: Checks needed every year for people with a mental health problem in the criminal justice system, says NICE (free)

Effective Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders – An American College of Physicians Position Paper (free)

See also: Treat Substance Abuse as Chronic Condition, ACP Says – Medscape (free registration required) AND Physicians call for drug abuse to be treated as ‘chronic disease’ – ABCNews (free)

Association between clinically recorded alcohol consumption and initial presentation of 12 cardiovascular diseases: population based cohort study using linked health records – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Alcohol and cardiovascular disease (free)

See also: Alcohol and the Heart: Moderation Still Best – Generally higher risks seen with no or heavy drinking – MedPage Today (free registration required)

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