Industry Influence on Mental Health Research: Depression as a Case Example

by Ana Florence | Jan 23, 2024

Cosgrove L, Patterson EH, Bursztajn HJ, Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Jan 23;10:1320304 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1320304 Abstract: Emotional distress has been rising since before the COVID-19 pandemic and the public is told that depression is a major public health problem....

Becoming a Phronimos: Evidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Decision Making, and the Role of Practical Wisdom in Primary Care

by Ana Florence | Aug 10, 2023

Cosgrove, L. & Shaughnessy, A. (2023), Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230034R1 Abstract: There has been much discussion about the overmedicalization of human experience and the problems incurred by overzealous...

Best interests and low thresholds: legal and ethical issues relating to needle and syringe services for under 18s in Sweden

by Eric Eckhart | Jan 17, 2023

(January 2023) Damon Barrett, Frida Petersson, Russell Turner Harm Reduction Journal – 2022-01-01 Abstract:Access for legal minors to needle and syringe programmes raises a number of practical, legal and ethical challenges that traverse clinical practice, child...

New Treatments for Mental Disorders Should Routinely be Compared to Psychotherapy in Trials Conducted for Regulatory Purposes

by Ana Florence | Dec 1, 2022

Criste, I. Halvorsen, I. Cosgrove, L.  Naudet, F. (2022). Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 9, ISSUE 12, P934-936, December 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00340-6 Abstract: Treatments for mental disorders stem from various intervention classes, such as...

Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD

by Ana Florence | Nov 18, 2022

D’Ambrozio, G., Cosgrove, L., Lilly, S., & McCarthy, T. (2022), Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678221136240 Abstract: Harm reduction, which was initially developed as a public health response to illicit drug use, has...