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...

Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight – by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD An excerpt… I had just read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s wonderf...

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 time...

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 addre...

On May 4, 2015, Gloucester, Massachusetts Police Chief Leonard Campanello wrote on the department's Facebook page that, in the wake of th...

It was over 90 years ago that Dr. Francis Peabody at Harvard Medical School illuminated for physicians then and to today what we best nee...

Now that we, by and large, are blaming people less for having addictions we can get a better glimpse into the popularity of the substance...

Violence is painfully once again in the headlines in this county. Orlando tragically adds to the list of mass shootings this year that de...

Henry, a 43-year-old educated and now unemployed white man in the Midwest, was taking a potentially lethal overdose of narcotic pills pre...

In the wake of Prince's death, opioids are once again in the headlines. While precise details remain private, The New York Times reported...

In the first Season of HBO's "The Wire," the fictitious but alarmingly real Baltimore deputy police commissioner remarks, "Buy-bust ... t...

The Scourge of Synthetic Drugs We have heard a lot about K2 (Spice, Black Mamba and other quaint names), the synthetic “marijuana” that h...

"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 --...

"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, ...

In recent weeks, a spate of media attention has once again alerted Americans to our epidemic of narcotic drug abuse – and its destructive...