Study Group: Addiction Medicine Psychiatrists (US)(?)

Manipulation of the nicotinic receptor is a novel way to treat ADHD which has significant potential to modify the symptoms of this disorder and to enhance learning and memory.  We have had some difficulty with side effects of varenicline which is a nicotinic partial agonist used in smoking cessation...

Although the concept is exciting--an inverse agonist at the cannabinoid-1 (CB-1) receptor to reduce appetite, this medicine has a lot of bad press from rimonabant to overcome.  The major problem with rimonabant was psychopathological reactions in patients.  We do not yet know whether this...

Fluovoxamine is perhaps the last participant in the SSRI explosion of the 1980's.  It is also the least used and hence, least profitable entry in the SSRI horse race, primarily because of timing rather than any particular pharmacological deficiency.  To believe that this attempt to rejuvenate...

Smoking cigarettes is a serious health problem throughout the world and smoking cessation is an important clinical problem.  Stopping smoking is tremendously difficult for some because of the highly addictive nature of nicotine, but also because of the predominant use of smoking as a form of self-medication...

I believe publications such as these are probably useful reactions to over-prescribing antidepressants for anything that ails you (which is what has been occuring until the recent suicide scare in adolescents).  Nevertheless, such generalizations have significant influence even though they are...