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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…
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…
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,…
Headspace Issues Layoffs Following Sword Health Acquisition
It has been a little over two weeks since Sword Health’s acquisition of the San Francisco-based digital therapy and psychiatry company Headspace officialy closed and now the combined entity has started to roll out post-transaction layoffs. Public documents filed by Sword Health and Headspace part…
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.…
Hungry for Scale, Wary of Reimbursement: The Behavioral Health M&A Dilemma
To sell or not to sell, that is the question facing private equity and behavioral health operators today. Timing the market has rarely felt this complicated. On one hand, it’s hard to turn on the news without hearing about today’s inflationary pressures on consumers, and…
Vintage Find, Modern Emergency: Unexpected Methaqualone Ingestion in an Adolescent
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Adolescents with substance use disorders may obtain intoxicants through unconventional sources. We report a case of an adolescent who ingested what he believed to be an over-the-counter cold preparation obtained at an estate sale with…
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