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Which Factors Predict Primary Nonadherence to Medications?

Sep 28, 20233 min read

Which Factors Predict Primary Nonadherence to Medications?

Poor adherence to medication is a real challenge in healthcare. Despite evidence indicating therapeutic benefit from adhering to a...

Increasing Overdose Prevention Awareness

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Sep 26, 20234 min read

Substance Use

Increasing Overdose Prevention Awareness

Every August, SAMHSA commemorates Overdose Awareness Week (August 27 to September 2, 2023) and International Overdose Awareness Day...

Psilocybin Reduces Symptoms, Disability in Major Depression

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Sep 22, 20235 min read

Substance Use

Psilocybin Reduces Symptoms, Disability in Major Depression

Psilocybin Reduces Symptoms, Disability in Major Depression A single dose of an experimental psilocybin drug offered significant...

Antiquated U.S. Laws Governing Methadone Access Must Change

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Sep 22, 20233 min read

Substance Use

Antiquated U.S. Laws Governing Methadone Access Must Change

— One-size-fits-all treatment approaches sometimes fail Methadone Access America's drug overdose crisis has escalated in the past few...

Mental Health Matters Podcast: Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide

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Sep 22, 202319 min read

Suicide

Mental Health Matters Podcast: Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide

Mental Health Matters Episode Summary In 2020, suicide was the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of...

Single Psilocybin Dose Again Shows Major Depression Benefit

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Sep 22, 20234 min read

Substance Use

Single Psilocybin Dose Again Shows Major Depression Benefit

— Significant early improvement sustained through day 43 in multicenter study Single Psilocybin Dose Just one dose of psilocybin...

CDC: Deaths From Counterfeit Pills Rising

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Sep 22, 20233 min read

Substance Use

CDC: Deaths From Counterfeit Pills Rising

— Increase seen particularly in western states and in younger adults Pills Fatal overdoses from counterfeit pharmaceuticals, particularly...

Physicians Aren't Asking Enough Questions About Cannabis Use

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Sep 21, 20234 min read

Substance Use

Physicians Aren't Asking Enough Questions About Cannabis Use

As more older adults turn to cannabis to alleviate medical ailments like pain, insomnia, and anxiety, many physicians are hesitant to ask...

FDA Approves First Generics for the Treatment of ADHD, BED

chrisviesumalinog

Sep 21, 20231 min read

ADHD

FDA Approves First Generics for the Treatment of ADHD, BED

Generics are now approved for adults in the treatment of BED and for individuals aged 6 years and older in the treatment of ADHD. The US...

FDA OKs ADHD Generics; Flotation Therapy; Civilians Respond to Distress Calls

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Sep 21, 20231 min read

ADHD

FDA OKs ADHD Generics; Flotation Therapy; Civilians Respond to Distress Calls

— News and commentary from the psychiatry world Flotation Therapy The FDA approved the first generic forms of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate...

Moms With OUD: Improved Infant Care Seen With Use of Prenatal Addiction Meds

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Sep 20, 20233 min read

Substance Use

Moms With OUD: Improved Infant Care Seen With Use of Prenatal Addiction Meds

- Access for pregnant women is a "public health and policy imperative," study author says OUD For mothers with opioid use disorder (OUD),...

Feel-good hormones: How they affect your mind, mood and body

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Sep 6, 20232 min read

Substance Use

Feel-good hormones: How they affect your mind, mood and body

Feel-good hormones: How they affect your mind, mood and body Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. Once released by glands into...

The Practice of Urge Surfing in Mindfulness

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Sep 6, 20231 min read

Substance Use

The Practice of Urge Surfing in Mindfulness

Riding the Craving Wave Urge Surfing is a technique for managing your unwanted behaviors. Rather than giving in to an urge, you will ride...

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Sep 1, 20231 min read

Substance Use

What is Addiction?

Addiction: a disease involving continued use of a substance despite serious substance-related problems, such as loss of control over use,...

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Sep 1, 20233 min read

Psychotherapy

When Therapy Does More Harm Than Good

Before being used for treatment, medicines undergo years of testing. In the United States, the Food and Drug administration requires...

Vilash Reddy, MD

Aug 29, 20235 min read

Substance Use

Top 10 Insane Facts About Sigmund Freud

Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory...

Grounding - to help control emotional volatility

Vilash Reddy, MD

Aug 28, 20236 min read

Dialetical Behavioral Therapy

Grounding - to help control emotional volatility

Detaching from Emotional Pain (Grounding) "No feeling is ﬁnal." -Rainer Maria Rilke (20th-century German poet) Using Grounding to Detach...

Is a Drug to Treat Cannabis Addiction Finally Within Reach?

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Aug 28, 20234 min read

Substance Use

Is a Drug to Treat Cannabis Addiction Finally Within Reach?

Cannabis Addiction Is a Drug to Treat Cannabis Addiction Finally Within Reach? BORDEAUX, France — Could AEF0117, a drug that has a novel...

Amid Shortages, Federal Agencies Ask Drugmakers to Boost Output of ADHD Meds

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Aug 28, 20232 min read

Substance Use

Amid Shortages, Federal Agencies Ask Drugmakers to Boost Output of ADHD Meds

Amid Shortages Federal Agencies Ask Drugmakers to Boost Output of ADHD Meds | Community Healthcare SystemVisit Agencies are also asking...

What Physicians Can Learn From 'Painkiller' (2023)

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Aug 28, 20233 min read

Substance Use

What Physicians Can Learn From 'Painkiller' (2023)

The series explores the origins of the first opioid crisis in the United States. The recent Netflix TV series Painkiller (2023) depicts...

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Phone: 888-855-0947 Office Hours: M-F 10am-6pm Fax: 346-766-0599

After hours: If urgent, life threatening (please call 988, 911, or go to nearest ER. Otherwise, for side effects to medications, please text 816-766-0119. For all other non-urgent issues, please contact us Practice Q messaging portal or contact us during clinic hours at 888-855-0947.

We are in network with a majority of insurance companies Click here to see the full list **Seeing all patients in Missouri and Kansas (only for telepsychiatry)

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© One Life Psychiatry PLLC- 2024

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**Seeing all patients in Missouri and Kansas (only for telepsychiatry)

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One Life Psychiatry
4050 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, MO 64111-3041