Dr. LloydFeb 14, 20171 minTrump's Recipe for More AddictionIn a recent article, I made the case against "Trumpcare" for our general health care system. As a psychiatrist, I now focus on the impact...
Dr. LloydDec 2, 20162 minImproving Mental Health: 4 Secrets In Plain SightImproving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight – by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD An excerpt… I had just read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s...
Dr. LloydNov 21, 20161 minAnswer the Call to Tackle AddictionOn Nov. 17, Dr. Vivek Murthy, a vice admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and U.S. surgeon general, issued a...
Dr. LloydSep 22, 20161 minKeep Moving on Opioid Abuse EffortsI will miss President Barack Obama. Not only has he brought intelligence and integrity to the White House, but he has done a lot to...
Dr. LloydAug 31, 20161 minBridges to Care, Not IncarcerationOn May 4, 2015, Gloucester, Massachusetts Police Chief Leonard Campanello wrote on the department's Facebook page that, in the wake of...
Dr. LloydJun 19, 20165 minCaring for The Patient: A Huffington Post by Dr. Lloyd SedererIt was over 90 years ago that Dr. Francis Peabody at Harvard Medical School illuminated for physicians then and to today what we best...
Dr. LloydJun 19, 20164 minWhy Are Psychoactive Drugs So Popular?Now that we, by and large, are blaming people less for having addictions we can get a better glimpse into the popularity of the...
Dr. LloydJun 16, 20161 minViolence: What We Know And What We Need To KnowViolence is painfully once again in the headlines in this county. Orlando tragically adds to the list of mass shootings this year that...
Dr. LloydMay 19, 20161 minForce Changes In Mental Health CareHenry, a 43-year-old educated and now unemployed white man in the Midwest, was taking a potentially lethal overdose of narcotic pills...
Dr. LloydMay 10, 20161 minPainful Shadow of Prince's DeathIn the wake of Prince's death, opioids are once again in the headlines. While precise details remain private, The New York Times reported...
Dr. LloydApr 19, 20161 minThe Folly of Supply-Side Drug InterventionIn the first Season of HBO's "The Wire," the fictitious but alarmingly real Baltimore deputy police commissioner remarks, "Buy-bust ......
Dr. LloydApr 13, 20165 min‘Not for Human Consumption’ - synthetic psychoactive drugsThe Scourge of Synthetic Drugs We have heard a lot about K2 (Spice, Black Mamba and other quaint names), the synthetic “marijuana” that...
Dr. LloydMar 2, 20165 minMental Health and Civil Rights: The Kennedy Legacy"Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are --...
Dr. LloydFeb 20, 20165 minBetter Living Through Psychedelic Chemistry? LSD, Psilocybin and Ketamine in the Headlines"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin,...
Dr. LloydFeb 1, 20161 minTake Action Against AddictionIn recent weeks, a spate of media attention has once again alerted Americans to our epidemic of narcotic drug abuse – and its destructive...