Psychiatric News (2/4) reports, “Many U.S. adults 65 and older who died of suicide between 2003 and 2016 did not have a known mental illness,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from the National Violent Death Reporting System.” The study revealed that “of the 26,884 suicide deaths recorded during the study period,” the majority of “older men (69.1%) and women (50.2%) who died of suicide did not have a known mental illness.” The findings were published online Jan. 28 in a research brief in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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— “Many Older U.S. Adults Who Died By Suicide Did Not Have Known Mental Illness, Study Suggests, Psychiatric News , February 4, 2020

Medscape (2/4, McNamara, Subscription Publication) reports researchers found in “a large, population-based study of more than 7 million individuals” that “a small but significant increase in the risk for death by suicide occurs in the months immediately following diagnosis of specific neurologic disorders.” The researchers found that “patients diagnosed with a severe neurologic disorder were four to five times more likely to die by suicide compared to the general population.” The findings were published in JAMA.

MedPage Today (2/4, George) reports over a period of 37 years, “the suicide rate for people with a neurologic disorder was 44.0 per 100,000 person-years, compared with 20.1 per 100,000 person years for all other people.”

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— “New Data Rank Neurologic Diagnoses by Suicide Risk, “Damian McNamara, Medscape, February 4, 2020

Psychiatric News (2/3) reports, “Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD] who also have aggression problems might benefit from adjustments to their stimulant regimen and behavioral therapy,” researchers concluded in a study that “enrolled 175 children aged six to 12 with” AD/HD “and either oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder.” The findings were published online Jan. 30 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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— “Optimizing Stimulant Treatment May Help Reduce Aggression in Children With ADHD, Psychiatric News, February 3, 2020

Healio (2/3, Gramigna) reports, “Individuals with an eating disorder are nearly four times more likely to experience exercise addiction than those without one,” investigators concluded after conducting a “systematic review of grey literature and major databases, specifically looking at studies that reported on exercise addiction prevalence among these two populations,” then also conducting “a random effect meta-analysis to calculate ORs for exercise addiction.” Included in the review were “nine studies with a total sample of 2,140 participants with a mean age of 25.06.” The findings were published online Jan. 1 in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders.

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— “Eating disorders increase risk for exercise addiction, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, February 3, 2020

HealthDay (1/31, Preidt) reported, “Allowing pharmacists to provide the opioid overdose” medicine “naloxone without a prescription led to a huge increase in dispensing of the lifesaving” medication “in Ohio,” researchers concluded. After state legislators “gave that permission in 2015,” researchers found “a 2,328% increase in naloxone dispensing” since then. In addition, the study revealed that “counties with low-employment rates had 18% more naloxone dispensed per month than high-employment counties.” The findings were published online Jan. 31 in JAMA Network Open.

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— “When Pharmacists Allowed to Give Anti-Opioid Med Without Rx, Access Soars, ” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, January 31, 2020