Dr. Lloyd
Trump's Recipe for More Addiction
In a recent article, I made the case against "Trumpcare" for our general health care system. As a psychiatrist, I now focus on the impact...
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Dr. Lloyd
- Dec 2, 2016
- 2 min
Improving Mental Health: 4 Secrets In Plain Sight
Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight – by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD An excerpt… I had just read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s...
Dr. Lloyd
- Nov 21, 2016
- 1 min
Answer the Call to Tackle Addiction
On 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. Lloyd
- Sep 22, 2016
- 1 min
Keep Moving on Opioid Abuse Efforts
I 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. Lloyd
- Aug 31, 2016
- 1 min
Bridges to Care, Not Incarceration
On May 4, 2015, Gloucester, Massachusetts Police Chief Leonard Campanello wrote on the department's Facebook page that, in the wake of...
Dr. Lloyd
- Jun 19, 2016
- 5 min
Caring for The Patient: A Huffington Post by Dr. Lloyd Sederer
It was over 90 years ago that Dr. Francis Peabody at Harvard Medical School illuminated for physicians then and to today what we best...
Dr. Lloyd
- Jun 19, 2016
- 4 min
Why 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. Lloyd
- Jun 16, 2016
- 1 min
Violence: What We Know And What We Need To Know
Violence is painfully once again in the headlines in this county. Orlando tragically adds to the list of mass shootings this year that...
Dr. Lloyd
- May 19, 2016
- 1 min
Force Changes In Mental Health Care
Henry, a 43-year-old educated and now unemployed white man in the Midwest, was taking a potentially lethal overdose of narcotic pills...
Dr. Lloyd
- May 10, 2016
- 1 min
Painful Shadow of Prince's Death
In the wake of Prince's death, opioids are once again in the headlines. While precise details remain private, The New York Times reported...
Dr. Lloyd
- Apr 19, 2016
- 1 min
The Folly of Supply-Side Drug Intervention
In the first Season of HBO's "The Wire," the fictitious but alarmingly real Baltimore deputy police commissioner remarks, "Buy-bust ......
Dr. Lloyd
- Apr 13, 2016
- 5 min
‘Not for Human Consumption’ - synthetic psychoactive drugs
The Scourge of Synthetic Drugs We have heard a lot about K2 (Spice, Black Mamba and other quaint names), the synthetic “marijuana” that...
Dr. Lloyd
- Mar 2, 2016
- 5 min
Mental 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. Lloyd
- Feb 20, 2016
- 5 min
Better 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. Lloyd
- Feb 1, 2016
- 1 min
Take Action Against Addiction
In recent weeks, a spate of media attention has once again alerted Americans to our epidemic of narcotic drug abuse – and its destructive...
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