Saturday, October 12, 2002

Adherence Issues and Solutions With Antipsychotic Therapy
CME unit from Medscape created by John M. Kane, MD and based on a special symposium at the American Psychiatric Association 155th Annual Meeting earlier this year. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Know What Your Patients are Reading!
Article in Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health on the use of the web for health information by consumers. The article cites three web sites for clinicians - the Medscape Bipolar Resource Center, the Bipolar Mania InfoSite by Zyprexa and the Medscape Patient Education Center - and two web sites focues od "patient information" - the WebMD Patient Information on bipolar disorderand NIDA Webcast. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

The NHSDA Report: Serious Mental Illness Among Adults
"This Short Report, The NHSDA Report: Serious Mental Illness Among Adults, is based on SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older." The report is available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat format, and this page at the SAMHSA site includes links to related reports and publications.