STAT (8/18, Isselbacher) reports a survey conducted by “the Trevor Project, a national organization focused on suicide prevention among LBGTQ teenagers and young adults,” found “that while the majority of LGBTQ young people want access to mental health treatment, many don’t receive that care.” The survey included “more than 40,000 young LGBT people ages 13 to 24, 84% of whom said they would like to access mental health care.” STAT adds, “Among the 84% who wanted care but couldn’t access it, more than half said that cost was a prohibitive factor,” while “one-third said that they didn’t want to ask permission from their parents – which many states require to provide medical care to a person under 18.”

Related Links:

— “LGBTQ youth say cost, parental permission pose major barriers to mental health care, “Juliet Isselbacher, STAT, August 18, 2020

Healio (8/18, Gramigna) reports, “People with depression were at increased risk for cannabis use,” researchers concluded after collecting and then analyzing “data of 16,216 adults aged 20 years to 59 years who responded to the annual, cross-sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination survey.” The findingsof the “repeated cross-sectional study” were published online in JAMA Network Open.

Related Links:

— “Individuals with depression more likely to use cannabis, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 18, 2020

Psychiatric News (8/18) reports, “Compared with other common antipsychotics, clozapine appears most likely to decrease the risk of suicidal outcomes in patients with schizophrenia,” investigators concluded after examining data from “two nationwide register-based cohort studies of 61,889 patients with schizophrenia who lived in Finland and 29,823 patients with schizophrenia who lived in Sweden.” The findings were published online Aug. 15 in the Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Related Links:

— “Clozapine Found Most Likely of Common Antipsychotics to Reduce Risk of Suicide in Patients With Schizophrenia, Psychiatric News, August 18, 2020

The Wall Street Journal (8/17, Reddy, Subscription Publication) reports a federal committee recommends that men should not consume more than one alcoholic drink per day. The committee is recommending changes to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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— “Men Urged to Limit Alcohol to One Drink a Day Amid New Concerns, “Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2020

HCPlive (8/17, Walter) reports researchers “used phenotypic and genomic data from over 100,000 UK Biobank participants to systematically screen and validate a wide range of potential modifiable factors for depression,” extracting “baseline data for 106 modifiable risk factors [for] depression including lifestyle measures such as exercise, sleep, media, and diet, social factors including support and engagement, and environmental variable[s] such as green space and pollution.” After using “Mendelian randomization evidence,” investigators concluded that certain factors were “actionable targets for preventing depression.” The findings were published online Aug. 14 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

Related Links:

— “More Risk Factors Predict Future Depression, “Kenny Walter, HCPlive, August 17, 2020