Summer of drugs? With rates of substance use in our patients up after a stressful year, we interviewed Dr. Amy Yule on alcohol use in adolescents. Her insights are both frightening and incisive and can help us understand and intervene. We also interviewed Dr. Kyle Ganson to talk about the culture and hazards of performance-enhancing drugs. For summer beach research reading, Dr. Glen Spielmans offers an overview of the important things to look for in journal articles and how not to get caught up in the hype of preliminary studies. In that spirit, we also have research updates on the use of citalopram for irritability in DMDD, the decision between SSRIs and SNRIs for anxiety, an online parent tool to manage tantrums, and disparities in ADHD rates in Black kids. As always, we welcome your feedback.

On another note, we are planning more podcasts related to our content. Pharmacogenetics with Dr. Aaron Besterman went up recently, Qelbree followed soon after, and we plan for the autism research interview with Dr. Micheal Sandbank and our recap of the kinds of autism treatment to follow. If you haven’t heard them, our podcasts tend to be more hard hitting than the print versions of these interviews—with people in their own words helping us to uncover important issues in our work. While you will soon get CME for listening, in a world full of advertisements, we currently offer these podcasts free in the spirit of public service. Listen and share them—help us shape a better world!