What Do Drugs & Booze Have to Do With It ?

What Do Drugs & Booze Have to Do With It ?

September is National Recovery Month, a good time to reflect that the cumulative death toll of our ongoing opioid epidemic is approaching one million.  I wrote The Case for Caution When Prescribing Benzodiazepines (Psychiatric Times, 9/3/21) to encourage psychiatrists...
No One’s in Charge

No One’s in Charge

During these solemn high holy days of repentance and reckoning, millions of Jews around the world beseech God to stop Covid-19 from spreading and ending lives.  Although it can be soothing and reassuring to believe that the universe is governed by a supreme being who...
Flying to the Sweet Hereafter

Flying to the Sweet Hereafter

The human condition:  We’re born, and it takes us a few decades, more or less, to learn how to fly.  Fortunate circumstances and luck may be our lot.  Perhaps the flight isn’t too turbulent and the food is plentiful; maybe we even have some fun, get to help some...