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When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

- Carl Sagan, 1995

NCRP Responds to FDA Panel on SSRI Use in Pregnancy The National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP) is issuing this response following the recent FDA panel discussion on the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in pregnancy....

National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP) Responds To FDA Panel On SSRI Use In Pregnancy

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Samaritans to close at least 100 branches across UK and Ireland Mental health charity says it plans to move volunteers into larger regional hubs and pilot remote call handling Samaritans has announced plans to close at least half of its 200 branches across the UK and Ireland, move volunteers into larger regional hubs and pilot remote call handling, in a major shakeup that has left some volunteers dismayed. The mental health charity told volunteers in a video last week it hoped “within the next seven to 10 years, our branch network will have reduced by at least half” and that it would move to “fewer but bigger regions”. Continue reading...

Samaritans to close at least 100 branches across UK and Ireland

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What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop? Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

The director of the Gender Violence Clinic, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, suggests that there is reluctance to fund research “that will bring attention to an uncomfortable dilemma..’those policing the crime and those committing it are often the same person.’”

A sloppy report on mifepristone is being used to undermine the FDA — and the biotech industry More than 50 biotech leaders and investors are urging the FDA to disregard a methodologically flawed report on mifepristone.

Mifepristone has been used by millions of women for over two decades, with 25+ years of data supporting its safety and efficacy.
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Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon

Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon

NHS England » First NHS round-the-clock mental health unit opens under 10 Year Health Plan NHS England » First NHS round-the-clock mental health unit opens under 10 Year Health Plan

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@rcpsych.bsky.social cannot support the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales in its current form and is once again urging MPs to look at our concerns ahead of the pivotal Commons Report stage debate and Third Reading. More here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

RCPsych International Congress Programme Information on sessions and speakers

The #RCPsychIC25 Newport, Wales, programme is out
highlights:
📌Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers
📌 New research approaches to problematic usage of the internet( Dan Stein)
📌 Assisted dying
📌 What must change to improve women’s mental health care?(Linda Gask)

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Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections A far-right win is real possibility in eastern European state on same day as votes in Poland, Portugal and Montenegro Romanians have started voting in a pivotal presidential run-off that could radically alter their country’s strategic alignment and economic prospects, as voters in Poland and Portugal also prepare to cast their ballots in a European electoral “super Sunday”. The Romanian contest, the most consequential of the three, pits a brash, EU-critical, Trump-admiring populist against a centrist independent in a knife-edge vote that analysts have called most important in the country’s post-communist history. Continue reading...

Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections

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High-Risk Medications in Persons Living With Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05147428.

1/2🧵Month by month we encounter resistance ( tr:anxiety) from carers and relatives when it is time to deprescribe antipsychotics in people with #dementia
Severe aggressive and non aggressive agitation in dementia warrants time limited treatment with Risperidone.

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I wrote this book to empower people to take their mental health into their own hands.

I wanted to teach the language of pseudoscientific grift so that you know when it’s spoken.

This is a kind of mental health support I’m unable to provide in the role of clinician.