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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

Medical Xpress

But experts say the risks can be lowered through heart screenings, close monitoring and giving magnesium before and during treatment, The Times added in its report. Nolan Williams, director of Stanford Universitys Brain Stimulation Lab, who led the Nature Medicine study. Ibogaine can be dangerous for people with heart problems.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. David: Exactly.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. We’re done with that, so now what we do is we encourage our friends, our colleagues, to screen for spiritual need, one or two questions that help them identify distress and help them know what to do with those, not, “Would you like to see a chaplain.”

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

But again, hindsight’s 2020 probably wasn’t the best measure to look the other one we tested in an exploratory way was feeling heard and understood. And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen. So absolutely, it is complicated.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. I’ve really looked into this because I partially feel responsible for masks because I wrote this article in March of 2020, and it was being reviewed. It was that day that I was totally deflated.