Category Archives: Miscellaneous
When the treatment is torture: ICE must stop using solitary confinement for Covid-19 quarantine
Super proud to be a co-author on this piece, which highlights the horrors ICE detainees are facing. Kudos to Sam Fox and Ellen Gallagher.
The Horrors on our Southern Border Being Perpetrated by our Government against Asylum Seekers
Very, very honored to have participated in this panel discussion:
Nutmeg Challenge Anyone?
I didn’t know this was a thing until Ian Lecklitner contacted me for comment. The articile in MEL magazine is here.
What does it mean to ‘recover’ from the coronavirus?
I was quoted in this article written by Naomi Elegant in Fortune. The full text of the article is copied below: Along with the daily spikes in confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, a third, more hopeful number is also ticking … Continue reading
Trump Endorsed a Risky Antidepressant for Veterans. Lawmakers Want to Know if His Mar-a-Lago Pals Had a Stake in the Drugmaker
I think Isaac Arnsdorf did an excellent job highlighting some concerning aspects of Spravato’s approval process within the FDA and also what has happened since it hit the market. His piece is here.
SAMHSA nationwide database of buprenorphine providers is rife with wrong numbers and practices that don’t prescribe the medication
Here’s the story in the Globe: And here is the piece Lila Flavin and I wrote for STAT news.
Response in the Globe to my letter about difficulties in accessing mental health care
Here is a response to my recent letter in the Boston Globe.
Insurers’ profit motive makes it hard for his patients to get care they need
The Boston Globe published a letter of mine available here. In it I state that as a frontline clinician “my greatest impression of insurance companies is that their profit motive makes it hard for my patients to receive the care … Continue reading
Hasan Minhaj on Accessing Mental Health Care
Blew me away when Minhaj highlighted Monica Malowney’s and my study findings from 2015 (12 minutes into his show and then again in the middle of the 18th minute) in which we called 360 psychiatrists in 3 US cities, about … Continue reading
Doctors Pay up or Else Can’t Work
My latest on Psychology Today is here about the coercion and extortion many doctors face if they want to be able to continue practicing medicine.