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What is Social Media Addiction? | APAF ow.ly/VEwa50VPjry

Join us for the #Paws4MentalHealth challenge! Take a "paws" in your day and snap a picture of you and your pet with a story of how they positively impact your mental health. And check out our title on companion animals in therapy! bit.ly/3YKaoxJ

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | it was disappointing to see an important part of her early career vanish in the telling. ow.ly/kKr250VQiyx

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The May issue of Psychiatric News is now available online. See what psychiatrists have to say about Clozapine, insurance denials, physicians tracking their own data, Cobenfy, and more. ow.ly/jbY250VKOHG @APAPsychiatric

“Children in such households are more likely to develop adverse health outcomes than their peers without exposure to parental SUD.” ow.ly/ibV050VRnNA

Our Executive Director, Rawle Andrews, Jr., tackled youth mental health yesterday with @commanders at a panel for D.C. students. Equipping young adults with the language to prioritize their mental health is key to creating a mentally healthy nation. Read: wtvr.com/news/local-new…

Medications may require higher doses to reach an effective concentration or longer washout periods before switching treatments—facts that are often left off medication labels. ow.ly/RsQR50VNcay

Naloxone distribution, increased access to buprenorphine, and changes in opioid prescribing patterns have spurred a rapid decline in overdose deaths. But at a time of threatened state funding, will that trend continue? ow.ly/9bwt50VKPjk

FROM THE PRESIDENT | Psychiatry has risen from a stigmatized field to one of the most sought-after professions. But there are also many threats to our practice, our science, and the health of our patients. ow.ly/b7FJ50VKPoi

“The results of our study are reassuring for young people and their families that routine ADHD medication treatment is unlikely to cause psychotic experiences.” ow.ly/PrgX50VS638

EDITOR'S DESK | What better way of understanding this, I thought, than posing these questions to an AI assistant? What surprised me wasn’t the intelligence of the responses, but how they were shaped by tone, care, and genuine attention. ow.ly/LrP550VNcjL

Addiction and legal problems often run together, so general clinicians and forensic experts who work with people with substance use disorders (SUDs) need a basic understanding of the ever-changing legal landscape related to drugs and alcohol. ow.ly/EBbW50VKPvQ

JOURNAL DIGEST | Infants born to mothers with opioid use disorder (OUD) have a higher risk of child protective services referrals and removals in the first 30 days of life. ow.ly/1kzh50VKPEP

“Because Texas banned abortion earlier than other states, the Texas experience provides much of what is known about the consequences of abortion bans on health.” ow.ly/qJCW50VSRiv

How prepared are you? Your program? Your institution? Maybe now is the time to find out—before the next crisis hits home. ow.ly/5u3s50VNcrU

In honor of Mental Health Action Day, we want to provide you with a few resources and tools to help you take action supporting your mental wellbeing #MentalHealthAction ow.ly/1REP50VTjs3

APA’s Annual Meeting is themed “Lifestyle for Positive Mental and Physical Health,” which will resonate with the 79% of Americans who believe that someone’s mental health has an impact on their physical health. ow.ly/HE9w50VTnNf

VIEWPOINTS | Suicide is the leading cause of death for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth—with the rate skyrocketing from 1999 to 2021, growing by 72% for AAPI male youth and by 125% for AAPI female youth. ow.ly/kFw950VKPKU

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | This misstatement is endlessly repeated in the psychiatric literature: the claim that DSM-II includes homosexuality as pathology. ow.ly/bYfS50VNac2