October 20, 2000
From the President
MedemGovernment News
Passage of MH Bill Announced at APA Capitol Hill Symposium Psychiatrists Vow to Monitor Federal Parity Implementation APA Alerts Congress to Crisis in Prison Mental Health Care Lawmaker, MH Advocate Wins Powerful Calif. Post Prescribing Bill Fails Again in California Legislature National Surveys Draw Fuller Drug-Abuse Picture Treatment Protocols Show Promise In Reducing Marijuana Use Marijuana Treatment Protocols SAMHSA Releases Revealing DataLegal News
TarasoffWarning Does Not Waive Psychotherapy Privilege, Judge RulesMembers in the News
Chicago Psychiatrist Awarded for Communication SkillsAssociation News
Borenstein Confers With Gore on Treatment, ConfidentialityProfessional News
Surgeon General Shifts Spotlight to Children's Psychiatric Disorders Goup Advocates to Improve Childhood MH Research, Services NIMH Renovates, Expands Its Research Programs Psychiatrists Turn to Technology, But Does It Compute? Free Guide Steers Clinicians To Wide Range of MH Resources AWP Battles Gender Bias in Psychiatry, MH Care AWP Gives Center Stage to WomenInternational News
Kosovo: A Sad Laboratory for Studying Victims of War Trying to Repair War-Torn MindsClinical & Research News
Catastrophic Medication Interations Plague Elderly, Demand Solutions Cholinergic Side Effects Particularly Hard on Elderly Low Growth Hormone Levels May Signal Depression Risk Malingering or Real Illness? Prison Staff Learn Difference Jesse Jackson Calls for Treatment, Not Prison for Drug Addicts Strep Infection May Boost OCD Risk in Children Researchers Surprised at Tofu's Link to Mental Impairment Government Criteria for Psychotropic UseLetters to the Editor
DSM and Sexual Orientation - by C. Leon McGahee, M.D. Nothing's Free - by Burns Woodward, M.D. Deteriorating Care - by Shelley Bleecker, M.S.W., L.C.I.S.W. Neither Capitalism nor Socialism - by Sven E. Jensen, M.D. / Eugene M. Brooks, M.D.Viewpoints
A Marriage in the Making - by Samuel Slipp, M.D.Classifieds
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