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During the COVID-19 pandemic, stigma has increased the spread of the disease, as patients with COVID-19 or at-risk individuals avoided seeking health care. Here, the authors explore stigma among COVID-19 inpatients in India.
In this commentary, the authors discuss possible ethical issues associated with digital mental health education that may arise both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read this brief report examining stressors as well as factors associated with resilience among New York City health care workers in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here, the authors report 2 cases of PTSD exacerbation in the context of public masking during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was reported to be a trigger leading to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization in both patients.
In this commentary, the authors detail the challenges that aspiring psychiatrists face in applying for residency positions during the 2020-2021 cycle in the midst of COVID-19 from the perspective of an allopathic medical student.
Mechanically ventilated ICU patients experience fear, anxiety, and loneliness. This report highlights 3 COVID-19-positive ICU patients with tracheostomy to show the importance of early and consistent use of benzodiazepines for anxiety management.
Because COVID-19 is associated with a risk of death and lack of effective treatments, patients are at risk of developing PTSD. This cohort study assessed the prevalence of PTSD in outpatients, hospitalized patients, and those requiring an ICU stay.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many theories and recommendations about the use of supplements to enhance the immune system have swept the public sphere. Here, read about a case of new-onset psychosis induced by acetyl-L-carnitine.
India announced a lockdown to combat COVID-19 in March 2020. This study surveyed students with disabilities, autism, and cerebral palsy to assess if they understood the reason for lockdown and could follow self-hygiene guidelines.
Baclofen, a French Exception, Seriously Harms Alcohol Use Disorder Patients Without Benefit
To the Editor: Dr Andrade’s analysis of the Bacloville trial in a recent Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology column, in which he concluded that “individualized treatment with high-dose baclofen (30-300 mg/d) may be a useful second-line approach in heavy drinkers” and that “baclofen may be particularly useful in patients with liver disease,” deserves comment.1
First, Andrade failed to recall that the first pivotal trial of baclofen, ALPADIR (NCT01738282; 320 patients, as with Bacloville), was negative (see Braillon et al2).
Second, Dr Andrade should have warned readers that Bacloville’s results are most questionable, lacking robustness. Although he cited us,3 he overlooked the evidence we provided indicating that the Bacloville article4 was published without acknowledging major changes to the initial protocol, affecting the primary outcome. Coincidentally (although as skeptics, we do not believe in coincidence), the initial statistical team was changed when data were sold to the French pharmaceutical company applying for the marketing authorization in France. As Ronald H. Coase warned, “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”