American Psychiatric Association 156th Annual Meeting
This page at Medscape: Psychiatry serves as an index to a wide variety of articles, news and resources drawn from presentations at the APA's annual meeting in May. There are "topic overviews" (which are available for CME credit) on anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD and special topics, which includes material drawn from two presentations on substance abuse. A series of Medscape Medical News articles related to the meeting are also included - see, especially, Antipsychotics Prescribed More Often for Depression Plus PTSD, Bipolar Disorder at the APA Meeting: A Newsmaker Interview With Charles Bowden, MD and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: An Expert Interview With Donald Hilty, MD. Finally, there are two "international perspectives" by Canadians Martin A. Katzman (Anxiety Disorders at the APA) and Michael Rosenbluth (A Review of Depression From The American Psychiatric Association 156th Annual Meeting). [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Physical Complications of Substance Abuse: What the Psychiatrist Needs to Know
Literature review in Current Opinion in Psychiatry at Medscape - "There is an essential, ongoing and background updating of our knowledge of the social determinants and public health issues related to substance abuse. It is also vital that psychiatrists remain aware of the medical and surgical problems that patients with substance use disorders may develop. The present review examines the recent literature on physical complications of substance abuse." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Suit Says State Is Segregating Mentally Ill (New York)
New York Times story - "awyers for thousands of mentally ill residents of New York adult homes, many of which have long served as little more than psychiatric flophouses, plan to file a federal lawsuit today to force the state to make the kind of wide-ranging improvements in care that were won for the mentally retarded through the courts a generation ago. The legal papers, to be filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn, assert that the state is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by segregating the mentally ill in sprawling and poorly run adult homes, where they are essentially warehoused with few if any opportunities to rejoin society. Many residents can and should be moved to apartments in neighborhood settings that are no more costly to the government and far less isolating, the lawyers argue." [Viewing New York Times resources requires registration, which is free].  
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