There is a strong and complex link between opioid dependence and mental health: more than 74% of people living with an opioid use disorder (OUD) develop depression over their lifetime. It is important to address the impact of mental health status in the treatment of OUD in order to increase treatment success and ensure better management of this population. Gabriel…

The whole team would like to warmly congratulate one of its dynamic members, Stephanie Coronado-Montoya, who has been awarded a DIALOGUE grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) for her knowledge transfer initiative entitled “The Brain Diaries : A social media project to combat misinformation on mental health and addiction.” Stephanie, a third year doctoral student in biomedical…

HiTOP, an efficient alternative model of psychopathology? Considering the ubiquity and practical omnipresence of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (1) in North American psychiatric practice and research, it may come as a surprise to some that the validity of many (if not most) of the diagnoses described are consistently questioned; in fact, up to 40% of…