When Healthcare ignores Mental Health: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk

By SharpBrains | June 15, 2018

___ Many Amer­i­cans tak­ing com­mon meds that may cause depres­sion, study finds (CBS News): “More than one-third of U.S. adults are tak­ing pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions that may lead to depres­sion, new research finds. The study, pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, warns that depres­sion is a poten­tial side effect of more than 200 commonly…

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Study: Why do (some) college students misuse ADHD medication?

By Dr. David Rabiner | October 20, 2015

. The use of ADHD meds with­out a pre­scrip­tion, i.e., non­med­ical use, is a large and per­haps grow­ing prob­lem on col­lege cam­pus­es nation­wide. Although the per­cent of stu­dents who engage in non­med­ical use of ADHD meds varies wide­ly across dif­fer­ent schools, rates exceed­ing 30% have been report­ed at some campuses.

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Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 5, 2010 |

Wel­come to Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of best health and med­ical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand sto­ries, pre­sent­ed as a Q&A con­ver­sa­tion with blog­gers will­ing to answer, below, a total of 22 good ques­tions. On Health and Med­i­cine What can one-word prescriptions…

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