Evaluation of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Objective: Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a widely disseminated evidence-based treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This evaluation of a community psychiatry residency rotation compared a DBT training program to a standard care training program to determine the levels of confidence in treating patients with BPD, willingness to treat patients with BPD, and attitudes towards this patient population.

Methods: Participants were 57 psychiatry residents who completed a 3-month community psychiatry rotation in a DBT clinic (N = 33), or standard care clinic (N = 24) based in a partial hospitalization program in a community mental health center.

Intentional Intra-arterial Injection of Heroin: A Case Report.

Intravenous injection of drugs is associated with a host of medical complications, notably soft-tissue infections. On the contrary, intra-arterial injections of drugs have also been reported, largely restricted to inadvertent injections. Here we describe a patient who engaged in repeated intra-arterial injections of heroin when she exhausted most of her venous access, and presented acutely with a radial artery occlusion requiring thrombolytic therapy.

Toxicities associated with NBOMe ingestion-a novel class of potent hallucinogens: a review of the literature.

Background: A new class of synthetic hallucinogens called NBOMe has emerged as drugs of abuse.

Objective: Our aim was to conduct a systematic review of published reports of toxicities associated with NBOMe ingestion.

Methods: We searched PubMed for relevant English-language citations that described adverse effects from analytically confirmed human NBOMe ingestion.