Brian Buggie, MD

07/09/2022

“I think the reason doctors are more blasé about prescribing these medicines is that they’ve now been around for a long time and they can prescribe them without getting into trouble,” Dr. Kramer said. But there’s one more reason, too, he thinks: our growing “intolerance” for “more mild levels of depression and neurosis.”

The pandemic’s true toll on mental health won’t be known for a long time, but data from the past two years indicates a rise — some of it sharp — in prescription drugs for conditions like A.D.H.D. and depression.

05/17/2022

"Nearly three in four doctors now work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity, according to new data from Avalere. That's a 7% increase from a year ago—and an almost 20% jump since 2019."

Patients and providers should lament the increasing corporatization of medicine. All too often, it's a recipe for lower-quality, higher-priced health care.

05/08/2022

"The best place for adolescents in distress was not a hospital but an inpatient treatment center, where individual and group therapy would be provided in a calmer, communal setting, to stabilize the teens and ease them back to real life. But there were no openings in any of the treatment centers in the region, the doctor said."

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.

05/06/2022

Bloomberg reports, “Almost half of LGBTQ youth considered attempting su***de in the past year,” according to a “survey from the advocacy group The Trevor Project” that “chronicled the responses of more than 34,000 LGBTQ people...

Nearly three-quarters of LGBTQ youth are reporting symptoms of anxiety, according to a new survey.

05/06/2022

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I haven't yet started using 😊 or 👍 while communicating with my fellow clinicians, but I am looking forward to hearing from others about how to thoughtfully weave emojis into health care communication.

05/05/2022

“Cerebral clinicians will pause the practice of prescribing controlled substances as a treatment for ADHD such as Adderall and Ritalin for new patients, effective Monday, May 9,” CEO Kyle Robertson wrote in the memo...

Cerebral, the mental health-care startup, will stop writing new prescriptions for controlled substances that treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, it has told employees in a memo.

05/05/2022

"... newer companies that bill themselves as sources for speedy medication delivery are “completely losing the nuance of a health care interaction & the relationship between a doctor & a patient,” he said. “It’s about so much more than the prescription.”

Health tech companies that bill themselves as sources for speedy medication delivery are “completely losing the nuance of a health care interaction and the relationship between a doctor and a patient," Aaron Neinstein said.

05/04/2022

"US Drug Enforcement Administration agents interview former Cerebral employees about mental-health startup. One of the few telehealth companies that prescribes controlled substances online according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter."

US Drug Enforcement Administration agents interview former Cerebral employees about mental-health startup , One of the few telehealth companies that

05/04/2022

May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day from all of us at BFP! 🐶

05/04/2022

After Truepill’s own ADHD startup, Ahead, failed this is merely PR manipulation and their attempt to control the narrative before new legislation & regulations against ADHD startup pill mills.

The online pharmacy startup said that, “out of an abundance of caution,” it is temporarily pausing all fulfillment of Schedule 2 substances while it evaluates appropriate next steps.

05/03/2022

CNN reports research indicates that “around seven hours of sleep is the ideal night’s rest, with insufficient and excessive sleep associated with a reduced ability to pay attention, remember and learn new things, solve problems and make decisions,” ...

Seven hours of sleep is ideal for older adults and the middle-aged, with too little or too much sleep associated with a reduced ability to pay attention, remember and learn new things, solve problems and make decisions, according to new research.

05/02/2022

"The 10-min speech, delivered 50 years ago Monday, was a tipping point in the history of gay rights. The following year, the A.P.A. announced that it would reverse its nearly century-old position, declaring that homosexuality was not a mental disorder."

In 1972, Dr. John Fryer risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems.