Suicide Archives - David A. Frenz, M.D.

Telehealth Addiction Care

Mike Max interviewed me on WCCO Radio this morning about telehealth addiction care. Allina Health’s work that began at New Ulm Medical Center was the context

Here are some of my source documents

Pandemic prevalence of mental health symptoms and substance use (CDC)
Increase in overdoses (New York Times)
Suicides and overdoses among the young (Robert Redfield, M.D. [CDC])
Business cycle and suicide (Am J Public Health 2011;101:1139)
Dangerous, counterfeit pills in Minnesota (DEA)

Many thanks to Sarah Jackson with Media Minefield for her partnership on this timely and important subject! ✸

I delivered this live webinar for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Practice Transformation way back on September 14th, 2018. I’m egregiously slow in posting, however, better late than never? ✸

Predicting Suicide & Violence

I recently delivered a webinar on suicide and violence for the Minnesota Center for Chemical and Mental Health. You can view the presentation here.

I’m a huge fan of using validated scales and measures to guide clinical decisions. I described the use of the following tools in the webinar:

I also referenced an important meta-analysis by Joseph C. Franklin, Ph.D., et al., and an associated press release by the American Psychological Association.

Finally, here’s a shameless plug for some translational pieces on suicide and violence that I wrote for Today’s Hospitalist (where I’m a long-time contributing editor).