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This Carlat Fact Book provides you with all the tools and information needed to assess and treat your patients who are struggling with opioid use disorder. Unlike traditional textbooks, this Fact Book distills each critical aspect of clinical decision-making into a single sheet, with tips and bullet points that you can use at the point of care. Topics covered include conducting an initial assessment, treating opioid withdrawal symptoms, psychosocial approaches to treating opioid use disorder, and relapse prevention strategies.

This latest Carlat Fact Book provides you with all the tools and information needed to assess and treat your patients who are struggling with alcohol use disorder. Unlike traditional textbooks, this Fact Book distills each critical aspect of clinical decision making into a single sheet, with tips and bullet points that you can use at the point of care. Topics covered include assessing severity of use, treating withdrawal symptoms, use of basic therapeutic techniques, and appropriate prescription of medications for alcohol use disorder.

The Medication Fact Book is a comprehensive reference guide covering all the important facts, from cost to pharmacokinetics, about the most commonly prescribed medications in psychiatry.Now covering side effects!This new edition includes additional fact sheets covering side effects to give you quick-reference access to understanding the most common side effects your patients experience with practical tips on how to manage them.

Prescribing Psychotropics bridges the gap between the complexities of drug pharmacokinetics and everyday clinical practice, providing clinicians more insight into how psychiatric drugs behave (or misbehave!) once their patients take them. The book also includes a series of unusually practical charts and tables that prescribers will find invaluable as they make medication decisions. What you''ll find inside: The basics of drug metabolismWhat you really need to know about drug interactionsFood and drink effects on medicationsRecreational drug interactionsGender and drug metabolismDrug metabolism and ethnicityMore than 70 quick-reference tables, charts, and figures

This third edition teaches you the key points of 62 of the most clinically relevant studies in psychiatry published over the past two years. This book includes a quick course in how to understand research design and statistics--so that you can be a more informed reader of the medical literature.Studies Include:Does TMS Really Work in Depression? Is Clozapine the Next Step After a Single Failed Antipsychotic Trial?Is D-Cycloserine Useful for Panic Disorder Treatment Augmentation?How Effective Are Medications for Pediatric Anxiety?Can Stimulants Prevent Crime?Is There a Case for Cannabis in the Treatment of Pain?Can Computerized Interventions Reduce Cannabis Use?Is Varenicline Effective for Alcohol Use Disorder?Another Black Eye for Prazosin in PTSD?Is Ketamine Just Another Opiate?Can Buprenorphine Improve PTSD Symptoms?Are All Psychotherapies for Anorexia Created Equal?

This second edition teaches you the key points of 42 of the most clinically relevant studies in psychiatry published over the past two years. This book includes a quick course in how to understand research design and statistics--so that you can be a more informed reader of the medical literature. Studies include: Defining a Role for Nutrition in Managing Children With ADHD Can a 10-Minute Intervention Improve Sleep in Children With ADHD? High-Dose Citalopram and Escitalopram: Undeserved Bad Rap? Youth, Antidepressant Medications, and Type 2 Diabetes Antipsychotic Use During First Trimester Not Associated With Congenital Malformations Cannabis and Psychosis: The Debate Continues Is Minocycline Effective When Added to Risperidone for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Clinicians need to keep up on the latest developments in psychiatry. But mental health professionals are only human, they can’t possibly read every potentially relevant research study that is published in a given year. Knowing that, at Carlat Publishing we sift through the contents of psychiatric journals to identify the most interesting studies, and then we read them. Only some of them meet our criteria of being of wide relevance for clinical practice (not too obscure), and also having something to conclude that might actually affect our practice decisions. We publish these research updates in a one-page section of our three newsletters. Those updates are compiled in this volume. Dr. Daniel Carlat wanted to make sure readers understand something about how research studies are designed and how you can decide whether to trust the results or not. He wrote a “Quick primer on Study Design and Statistics.”  Finally, he also wrote 50 multiple choice questions so clinicians can assess their understanding of these study results and earn CME credits. Does light therapy work for non-seasonal depression?Should you heed the FDA recommendation to use no more than 40 mg of citalopram for your patients? Is regular cannabis use really bad for teenagers? Does antidepressant use in pregnancy increase the risk of autism? What’s a promising new treatment for clozapine induced drooling?Does heavy drinking really imply a drinking problem?Do e-cigarettes help smokers quit?Does Straterra increase suicide risk?Can pets be good for your patient’s mental health? And the list goes on.