Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

Earlier this year a 7-year-old boy in state custody prescribed mind altering drugs threatened to kill himself, then he did. This summer another child on powerful drugs also threatened to kill himself, his mother called Help Me Howard, what happened after that? Tonight here is Patrick Fraser with a story we call a mothers hope.

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On September 14th 2008 roughly around 5:23PM EST I was watching my local news, Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV, when a subject called “Defeat Depression” came to my interests. It showed an obese teenager named David Harvey playing a wrestling game at the beginning of the report and then it continues on as it shows him and his mother, Jeri Jashnoff, playing a cardboard game, sorry! (ironically). To make the story run short it explains that David’s mother losing her job in real estate from the bad economy and how worry some the teenager becomes after finding out that he can no longer get what he wants anymore because of the tight budget. Because his mother couldn’t afford the dangerous psychotropic drugs from her job lost she took him to a research facility called Segal Institute For Clinical Research where people get paid to become guinea pigs and take experimental drugs that hasn’t yet been approved by the FDA.

Richard Lemus interviewed the atrocious Psychiatrist, Dr. Scott Segal the owner of the Segal Institute for Clinical Research and has said:

Dr. Scott Segal, Psychiatrist, Segal Institute for Clinical Research: “It’s definitely making adults depressed, and therefore the children depressed, as well. However, they have less money to spend on treatments, and these days insurance companies have higher co-payments and it’s very difficult for people to come in.”

Even scarier, it’s hard for patients or their families to pay for the medications they so desperately need.

Dr. Scott Segal: “They get their visits and their evaluations and whatever is needed in the study for free, as well as medications. In fact, in research studies, the treatment is above the normal level of care.”

Patients will often try out new drugs that aren’t on the market yet and many times they can stay on that medication after the study is over.

Dr. Scott Segal: “In many studies, after the study is over, the pharmaceutical company will give them a compassionate care and allow them take the medications for a period of time.”

David is on a new medication and sees a doctor weekly. He and his mom have high hopes for the future.

What Richard Lemus and the Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV fail to revel to the public is that theirs other ways to defeat depression without the usage of the dangerous drugs. It’s called proper diet, exercise and proper outdoor activities like going to the beach or going to a park. In the whole segment of the story reported by Richard Lemus nowhere did it mention natural ways to deal with depression.

Transcript from this story can be seen on: URL: http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/medicalreports/MI131332

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

A criminal investigation has begun into the death of a patient on a waiting room floor at a city-run psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn last year, the Brooklyn district attorney said on Tuesday.

The district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said that a grand jury had begun an inquiry into the death of Esmin Green, 49, who died early on June 19, 2008, about 24 hours after arriving by ambulance at Kings County Hospital Center’s psychiatric emergency room, where doctors said she was schizophrenic and ordered her to be involuntarily committed.

According to hospital protocol, Ms. Green should have been given a medical examination before she was admitted.

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The essentials differences between a biological diseases and a mental disorder.

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By Michael Biesecker, Staff Writer (Newsobserver)
State mental health officials were informed earlier this week they could lose federal funding at state psychiatric hospitals in Raleigh and Butner as soon as Feb. 20, potentially costing more than $1.2 million a month in lost revenue.

Meanwhile, federal inspectors were at both facilities Thursday and today reviewing new complaints of patient abuse and neglect.

The loss of Medicaid and Medicare money at Central Regional Hospital, which includes a new $130 million building in Butner and the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus in Raleigh, comes at a critical time for a state Department of Health and Human Services already facing deep budget cuts. It cost about $10 million a month to operate the two hospitals.

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Feb 4 2009  Birmingham Post

A mental health patient walked out of a Birmingham psychiatric hospital unchallenged with a door security pass belonging to a member of staff.

But West Midlands Police have revealed that the teenager was only reported missing two days later on Sunday morning.

He had used the swipe card to calmly pass through a number of electronically controlled doors and out of the intensive care unit in Edgbaston on Friday and was finally tracked down in Sparkhill by police on Monday afternoon.

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By Marshall Allen

Fri, Jan 16, 2009 (2 a.m.)
Sun Archives  * Mental hospital criticized (11-30-2005)

State investigators have fined the state’s psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas for not protecting a female patient who was reportedly raped by a male patient with known violent tendencies.

The staff at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital knew the man had bipolar and antisocial personality disorders and was prone to violence but failed to put protections in place to prevent him from harming others, according to the state’s investigation of the incident, released Thursday. It was one of three alleged rapes at the state’s two mental hospitals since 2005.

The medical records of the male patient, who was referred to only as “Pedro,” age 33, revealed he had “many incidents in which he was aggressive and threatening to staff and peers,” investigators from the Nevada Health Division’s Licensure and Certification Bureau wrote in their report.

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* Story Highlights
* Atypical antipsychotic drugs associated with higher risk of sudden cardiac death
* Atypicals were thought to be safer than older, so-called “typical” antipsychotics
* Three atypical antipsychotics are among the 10 top-selling drugs worldwide
* About 325,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac death each year

By Anne Harding

Susan Craig’s brother Roger died of a pulmonary embolism in 2007, at age 38. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in high school, he had been on antipsychotic drugs for years. At the time of his death, he was carrying 280 pounds on his 6-foot-4-inch frame.

Craig, a public relations specialist who works at Columbia University in New York City, knew that Roger’s medications could cause weight gain. But she had never been told that the drugs he was taking might be harming his heart.

“We were never counseled by his psychiatrist or his primary care provider to watch for symptoms of heart disease or any risk of sudden death at all,” Craig says. There’s no evidence that Roger’s medications caused his death, but his family might have been able to get him help sooner if they had known about the risks, Craig explains.
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Addiction, violence and suicide – these are some of the thousands of risks of antidepressants, but you won’t hear about it from your doctor, because he doesn’t know.

Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Prozac – how effective are they? Does Big Pharma want you to know? Douglas Kennedy – Fox News.

The risk of suicide at least doubles for children taking antidepressants according to short-term clinical trials.

Antidepressants are compared by researchers to cocaine in the DSM lll.

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Nashville, TN, January 15: Atypical antipsychotics, a widely prescribed class of drugs that help combat psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, autism and dementia, may actually double the patients’ risk of fatal heart attacks, just as the older drugs, a study has found.

The study conducted at the Vanderbilt University and the Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center analyzed Medicaid records (from 1990 to 2005) of nearly 277,000 people aged between 30 and 74 years. While one-third of the people were taking either a newer or an older version of the antipsychotics, two-thirds were nonusers.

For each antipsychotic drug user, two age and sex matched non-users were assessed. During follow-up period, 478 sudden cardiacdefine deaths occurred among those taking the drugs – twice the rate that occurred in the control group, researchers report.

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