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• Prescribing Lithium During Pregnancy Requires Careful Balancing of Benefits, Risks

  Psych News Alert Oct 21, 2019 | 20:47 pm

  The risk of giving birth to a child with birth defects may be slightly higher in women with bipolar disorder who take lithium compared with those who do not take lithium, suggests a meta-analysis in AJP in Advance. However, these slight risks may be outweighed by the dangers to mother and child of relapse of illness episodes (either depressive or manic), the authors of the analysis caution.“Pregnancy should not be[…]

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2019 LPMA/MPA Spring Meeting Follow up & Highlights:

 

• A Primer on Treatment of Substance Use Disorder Presented by Jen Creedon, MD
  
  
• Adventures in Opioid Management by Mark Bailey, MD
  
  
• Cannabinoids and CBD-Moving Forward by Michael Lewis, MD
  
  
• Controlled Dangerous Substances-Legislative Update and Avoiding Diversion by Warren Rivera
  
  
• Hot Topics in Risk Management by David Cash, JD and Justin Pope, JD
  
  
• Medicare Final Rule 2019 by Justin Caudle

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