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, 20162 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Nov 21, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Sep 22, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Aug 31, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Jun 19, 20165 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Jun 19, 20164 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Jun 16, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
May 19, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
May 10, 20161 min read
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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Apr 19, 20161 min read
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 ......
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Dr. Lloyd
Apr 13, 20165 min read
‘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...
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Dr. Lloyd
Mar 2, 20165 min read
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 --...
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Dr. Lloyd
Feb 20, 20165 min read
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,...
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Dr. Lloyd
Feb 1, 20161 min read
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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