Editorial Open Access
Volume 6 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Psychiatry.6.053
Closing the treatment gap: expanded access as the next step in psychiatry
Oleg V. Tcheremissine1,*, Liliana Gonzalez-Cabrales1
- 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte Region, 501 Billingsley Road, Charlotte North Carolina, 28211, USA
Corresponding Author
Oleg V. Tcheremissine, Oleg.Tcheremissine@advocatehealth.org
Received Date: July 31, 2026
Accepted Date: September 10, 2026
Tcheremissine OV, Gonzalez-Cabrales L. Closing the treatment gap: expanded access as the next step in psychiatry. Curr Res Psychiatry. 2026;6(1):62-64.
Copyright: © 2026 Tcheremissine OV, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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