Chronic Pain Common in Teens with Mental Health Problems
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers in Norway have found that 7 out of 10 adolescents with psychiatric problems suffer from…
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The Missing ‘P’ in Pain Management
The headline above is the title of a provocative article appearing in General Hospital Psychiatry, a journal that takes a “biopsychosocial” approach to health by…
Youths with Mental Health Problems at Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use
Children and young adults who are given opioid medications for pain are more than twice as likely to become addicted if they have a mental…
Startling new research about schizophrenia patients revealed
A group of psychiatrists have told a conference that more than half their schizophrenic patients either don't obey the doctor's instructions for taking their medication properly, or else take none of their medication at all.