Death Penalty Position Statement; Depression and Body Temp; New APA Medical Director

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The adopted a position statement outlining that people with mental illness or intellectual and developmental disabilities "should not be subjected to the death penalty or be executed." (Lancet Psychiatry)

Families are getting fed up as the rages on for over a year now. (NBC News)

A was linked with symptoms of depression, a study of over 20,000 people found. (Scientific Reports)

Around one in five adolescents in the U.S. , according to a KFF analysis of federal survey data.

Patients with schizophrenia were significantly less likely to be rehospitalized within 30 days compared with oral antipsychotics. (Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology)

Marketa Wills, MD, MBA, was named the new CEO and medical director of the .

Workers at call centers are burning out due to understaffing. (ABC News)

An artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot boosted . "This provides strong evidence that digital tools may help overcome the pervasive inequality in mental healthcare," researchers wrote in Nature Medicine.

rose between 2017 and 2022 as their psychedelic use grew in popularity. (Drug and Alcohol Dependence)

Although the overall rate of increased from 11.2% to 12.4% from 2018 to 2021, the rate dropped from 46.5% to 40.4% among adults with serious psychological distress. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

faces a reckoning as contemporary ideas of what constitutes "sobriety" shift. (New York Times)

Particularly for young men, were linked with a higher risk for new anxiety-related healthcare visits. (eClinicalMedicine)

Amid a dearth of resources, students were sometimes the for... students. (New York Times)

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    Kristen Monaco is a senior staff writer, focusing on endocrinology, psychiatry, and nephrology news. Based out of the New York City office, she’s worked at the company since 2015.