GLG News by Physicians who Specialize in Alcohol Withdrawal

I would expect that the the neuroendocrine effects of kick-boxing would be but one of the effects of repeated head trauma in kick-boxing.  The advantage of this observation is that blood levels of hormones can be measured reliably. 

Duloxetine is most widely used for chronic pain as a "depressive equivalent."  Eli Lilly is attempting to expand this market by obtaining FDA approval for anxiety.  Most psychiatrists do not really pay attention to these belated indications as they have already been using duloxetine and their...

FDA warnings were issued describing episodic disinhibition and poor recollection as a result of the short acting sleeping pills--the ones that fly over your bed as does a butterfly to cause you to sleep gently through the night and awake the next morning fresh and rested.  If you combine these...

Ms. Napolitano of Arizona shows wisdom in giving state funds to help implement treatment for methamphetamine addiction.  The analogy to treatment of cancer is not farfetched--addiction deserves the same public outcry as has done so much for cancer research and treatment.  This writer has coined...

The Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a well described neuropsychiatric syndrome which results from thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency characterized by an acute phase (confusion, unsteady gait, and paralysis of eye movements).  In clinical medicine, it is typically associated with alcohol dependence,...

Treatment of insomnia with medications has led since the 1880's to increased use, and eventually problem use and dependence. Most thoughtful physicians will agree that treatment of insomnia with "sleeping pills" is not often effective for the long-term.

The notion that pain can be relieved with opioids indefinitely is not based in reality. Opioid pain medications that are currently available are mostly not effective chronically, yet the pharmaceutical industry is knocking itself out to make formulations that will achieve this goal. Yet, mostly they...

Gabapentin has been used for at least a decade for neuropathic pain and most of us are quite convinced it works well.  It is about time that we will have a formal clinical trial to prove that we have been doing the right thing all along.

The investigators in this study used relatively new molecular techniques to identify approximately 50 proteins that are differentially expressed in individuals who died from cocaine, compared to those that did not.

Personalized medicine has tremendous cache. Everyone wants what is best for them when they are sick and this notion feeds into this human fear and insecurity. But there is more to people than genes alone.