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Washington autism therapy provider files Chapter 11
Spokane, Wash.-based Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis provider for children with autism, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Oct. 8 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington. The company is reorganizing under Subchapter V, a streamlined process for small businesses,…
MUSC psychiatry chair leads $7.5M youth substance use research program
Kevin Gray, MD, chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is leading a federally funded program supporting physician-scientists conducting research on youth mental health and substance use disorders. Dr. Gray is serving as principal…
Psychedelics in Psychiatry: A Wakeup Call for Clinicians in the Age of Policy Reform
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — To the Editor: On April 18, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to fast-track review of psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin and ibogaine, and allocating $50…
When Hair Becomes Hazardous: Trichotillomania, Trichophagia, and Gastric Trichobezoar
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Have you ever evaluated a patient with chronic abdominal pain, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, or weight loss and wondered whether an unrecognized psychiatric disorder might be contributing to the presentation? Have you seen patchy alopecia,…
Butorphanol Dependence in a Woman With No Prior Substance Use
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Butorphanol is a synthetic opioid with partial agonist-antagonist receptor activity in the μ and ĸ receptors.1 It is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as an analgesic. Because of the antagonist activity, the…
Thirty Years of the DCPR with Jenny Guidi, PsyD, PhD
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Listen on your favorite platform Episode Overview Jenny Guidi, PsyD, PhD, associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Bologna and director of psychometric and clinimetric studies at Massachusetts General Hospital, joins host Ben…
Executive order calls for creation of NIH Women’s Health Division
An executive order issued by the White House Oct. 19 directs the Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institutes of Health, to establish a Women’s Health Division. The new division will focus on conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women. The order…
Bridging Suicidal Crisis to Outpatient Care: Could Ketamine Plus Buprenorphine Shift the Paradigm?
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Acute suicidal crisis is a common, high-stakes presentation in emergency departments (EDs) across the US, with few treatment options for rapid and durable relief of symptoms. Due to the inconsistent availability of mental health care…
Navigating the needs of Hospitals and Inpatient Services
As hospitals continue to navigate the complexities of behavioral health care, the need for reliable, high-quality psychiatric provider staffing and management has never been more critical. At Integrated Psychiatric Consultants (IPC), we specialize in partnering with hospitals to deliver comprehensive psychiatric services that are both…
Newport Healthcare Brings Back CEO, Lays Off Staff
Newport Healthcare’s CEO office is turning over at the same time it institutes additional layoffs and facility closures to again shrink its national footprint. This is the third such action in the past year or so. Brian Setzer, who became CEO on Dec. 9, 2024,…
Assessing Suicide Risk Reduction in the Interval Before Death by Suicide Using Natural Language Processing
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — There is enduring clinical apprehension around high-suicide-risk patients whose symptoms seem to quickly improve.1 This worry centers on the possibility that what is perceived as improvement may be fleeting or, worse, could represent a means…
Focused Behavior Solutions Files for Bankruptcy Citing Reimbursement Delays as Key Cause
Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy provider based in Walla Walla, Washington, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents. The filing documents cited delayed reimbursement payments and high-cost debt as two factors contributing to the organization’s cash flow issues.…
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