{"title":"Study finds varenicline can help young adults quit vaping","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Link between cannabis use and schizophrenia is likely causal, especially for teens","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30973","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A key study looking at the association between cannabis use and acute psychosis and schizophrenia, focuses on cause. The link has been well described. But the causal link, until now, has not been shown in a meta-analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HHS Secretary says ‘Autism Epidemic Runs Rampant’","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30979","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On April 15, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, “The autism epidemic is running rampant,” and added that one in 31 children born in 2014 are “disabled by autism.”</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HHS, FDA to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes in nation's food supply","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30980","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April announced a series of new measures to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation's food supply — a significant milestone in the administration's broader initiative to Make America Healthy Again.</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"California bill introduced to protect college students who overdose","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30978","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colleges in California would no longer be allowed to punish students for calling 911 in the event of an overdose if Assembly Bill (AB) 602 passes into law. Sponsored by San Francisco Assembly member Matt Haney and introduced in April, the bill could have far-reaching effects. Currently, students who are found to be in the presence of drugs can be expelled or suspended. This discourages students from calling 911. Under AB 602, students would be encouraged to immediately seek help for a fellow student who is overdosing.</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic protocols for perinatal drug testing harm the maternal–child relationship","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30975","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Urine drug screening (UDS) policies that have been updated, combined with clinical decision support, may reduce racially biased reporting to child protective services (CPS) during prenatal and postnatal care and labor and delivery. The key is to remove isolated cannabis use and limited prenatal care as an automatic order for urine drug screening, according to a recent study. The researchers found that updating the policy was associated with a significant reduction in racial disparities in both urine drug testing and reporting to CPS. Black patients who are pregnant are significantly more likely than White patients to undergo drug testing and reporting to CPS, the researchers noted. For the study, the researchers looked at 9,396 pregnant patients at one midwestern center, about half of whom were Black. The intervention revising the drug testing policy to eliminate the automatic cannabis and limited prenatal care triggers, and to add clinical decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial proposes clinical trials with psychedelics for 16- to 17-year olds","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuroscientist urges a focus on the joy of adolescent experimentation","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30974","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adolescents are “superhumans who can easily laugh and embrace life,” explained Adriana Galvan, Ph.D. at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston. “I'm going to give a feelgood talk about adolescents,” said Galvan, opening her Mar. 29 keynote speech.</p>","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 6","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HHS announces elimination of SAMHSA","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cpu.30970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu.30970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22496,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"27 5","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}