Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Doctors in India Need Human Rights Training to Advocate for Prison Reform

Delighted that the work that co-authors Shivam Singh and Farhad Udwadia and I did examining how much medical students in India are taught about human rights and conditions inside their own prisons. Our paper can be found here in the … Continue reading

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How to Survive a Quarantine Winter

Here is another blog on Psychology Today authored by Jessica Tepper and myself.

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COVID in jails and prisons

We moved to Houston 3 months ago and just unpacked our last box last Saturday. This is my first letter in the Houston Chronicle. COVID or no, prison reform/decarceration for many who are currently being held is long overdue. The … Continue reading

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Advocating for Change: Neuroethics and Race

Once again delighted to have former students Zamina Mithani and Jane Cooper co-author a piece on bioethics and race. Our latest blog post on the topic is now live at the Emory Nueroethics site here. Bioethics needs to use its … Continue reading

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Nutmeg Challenge Anyone?

I didn’t know this was a thing until Ian Lecklitner contacted me for comment. The articile in MEL magazine is here.

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What does it mean to ‘recover’ from the coronavirus?

I was quoted in this article written by Naomi Elegant in Fortune. The full text of the article is copied below: Along with the daily spikes in confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, a third, more hopeful number is also ticking … Continue reading

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SAMHSA nationwide database of buprenorphine providers is rife with wrong numbers and practices that don’t prescribe the medication

Here’s the story in the Globe: And here is the piece Lila Flavin and I wrote for STAT news.

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Response in the Globe to my letter about difficulties in accessing mental health care

Here is a response to my recent letter in the Boston Globe.

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Insurers’ profit motive makes it hard for his patients to get care they need

The Boston Globe published a letter of mine available here. In it I state that as a frontline clinician “my greatest impression of insurance companies is that their profit motive makes it hard for my patients to receive the care … Continue reading

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Hasan Minhaj on Accessing Mental Health Care

Blew me away when Minhaj highlighted Monica Malowney’s and my study findings from 2015 (12 minutes into his show and then again in the middle of the 18th minute) in which we called 360 psychiatrists in 3 US cities, about … Continue reading

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