Erik Messamore is a psychiatrist and can be reached on Twitter @ErikMessamoreMD and LinkedIn.
Having been trained as a scientist before being trained as a physician, he brings fresh and effective approaches to clinical problems.
In addition to helping people with mental illness achieve recovery, his mission is to uncover useful yet overlooked knowledge and explain it, in plain English, to as many people as possible.
As a professional explainer of mind, medicine, neuroscience, and pharmacology, he has been quoted by the Associated Press, Malcolm Gladwell, and the U.S. Surgeon General.
He is the author of The Unsponsored Psychiatry Report, a free periodic letter about mental health, psychiatry, and pharmacology.
Click through North Dakota's Division of Medical Marijuana website, past the addresses of every cannabis dispensary in the state, into the presentations and annual reports, and you'll eventually come to a 32-slide presentation about the state's medical marijuana program. You'll see the 26 diseases that can be treated with marijuana, a colorful flowchart showing the types of available marijuana, and a ...
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It's a devastating fact: More than a million Americans could die from the novel coronavirus. But we can prevent this catastrophe through simple measures like sleeve sneezing, washing our hands, and staying home when we're sick.
The problem is, nearly everyone goes to work when they're sick.
We need to fix that.
Consider this scenario.
Monica is a certified nursing ...
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Very few things in the universe are 100 percent good or 100 percent bad. Cannabis is perfectly ordinary in having a mixture of good qualities (medical benefits) and bad qualities (medical risks). The people who want to make money – lots of money, by the way – from selling marijuana do a perfectly fine job of pointing out the good. But they don’t educate the public about the possible risks. They know it will ...
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The FDA has given official approval to market eskatamine as a treatment for depression. As expected, there has been great fanfare (press releases, morning TV talk show guests, NPR segments and so on). The news leaves me salty. The esketamine story reveals so much of what is wrong about how we get useful medical science findings into clinical practice.
Esketamine is not a new drug
Esketamine is being promoted as a new ...
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