Smithers Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center provides evidence-based care to individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Columbia researchers have found that exposure to too much dopamine during mid-adolescent causes changes in the brain that lead to aggressive and impulsive behaviors during adulthood.
This discussion is on the under-recognized and often crippling effects anxiety can have on young people and what NewYork-Presbyterian Youth Anxiety Center is doing about it.
“Murphy has been the most outspoken critic—rightly so—of SAMHSA, and Ellie quit SAMHSA for much of the same reasons. There’s something here that doesn’t add up,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
“Ketamine, as a treatment, is often paired with the experience or during consolidation of memories or some type of arousal related to the experience,” said Dr. Christine Denny.
“It’s a drug that seems to act at a wide range of brain sites so in terms of anxiety, one of its potential mechanisms could be acting at one of the serotonin receptors," said Dr. Margaret Haney.
“Getting to measures that matter for improving patient care without creating unnecessary administrative burdens is a balancing act," noted Dr. Harold Pincus.
“If you increase the prevalence of users, you are going to increase the prevalence of people who have adverse consequences,” said lead author Dr. Deborah Hasin.
Research shows that that both illicit cannabis use and cannabis use disorders increased significantly in those states that had passed medical marijuana laws...