03-27-2007 Media Madness

Decision Resources, whom I've dinged before, is back at it again with their gold standards. Brandweek and CL Psych have the details. Man, DR flings gold around more than Snoop Dogg.

Intueri goes to the Washington State Psychiatric Association's convention. Is pressed by senior psych docs to visit pharma reps' booths.

John McManamy on Fred Goodwin's bipolar spectrum challenge to the DSM-IV. Not sure what that buys anyone in terms of treatment and so on, but it might be interesting conceptually. I worry that it's such a broad definition that many more people could be declared bipolar. So we'll see.

Here's an utterly gorgeous account of depression as well as depression and smoking, which may have led to a doctor upping a patient's dose of an anti-depressant. So smoking is now taken as a sign of aberrant behavior requiring meds? Oy vey.

An interesting article in the New York Times on legal controversies around pain management. It involves the DEA, so you know it's gonna be a party. I only wish the feds were half as aggressive on the mental health world as on the pain management world, but whatever.

Depression now linked to impaired spatial ability.

Just finished taping an appearance on the Freedom Center's "Madness Radio" talking mental health and the Zyprexa scandal. It will air tomorrow night Back East and I will link to the archived version when it goes up. I was interviewed by Will Hall, who was one of the bad bad people whom Eli Lilly got a court injunction against over the Zyprexa documents. Good work, Will!