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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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26-Sep-2009
Written by: Kayla L. Cubbage

Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist gave her a number of prescriptions that allegedly lead to death.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist, whom she saw after the death of her son, prescribed her a variation of “pharmaceutical suicide.”

Khristine Eroshevich, Smith’s psychiatrist, prescribed her various prescription drugs that ultimately produced a deadly consequence. Smith’s internist Sandeep Kapoor also participated in writing Smith orders. Pharmacists’ refused several times to refill the drugs, in the best interest of Smith. “They are going to kill her with this,” one of the pharmacists told the Times.
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Published: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 4:43 a.m.

Dr. Paul John Hartmann, a psychiatrist practicing in South Lakeland, was arrested in Tampa on Friday on seven charges of possession of a controlled substance, two charges of possession of a drug without a prescription and a charge of driving under the influence.

Hartmann, 60, a board-certified psychiatrist with subspecialty certification in child and adolescent psychiatry, has a Tampa address on his Hillsborough County arrest record. But he is listed with the state Department of Health, and in the phone book, as practicing at 6700 S. Florida Ave. in Lakeland. His DOH record shows a clear license without a record of discipline.

Hartmann was released on $15,500 bail.

URL: http://www.theledger.com/article/20090926/NEWS/909279995/1134?Title=Doctor-Arrested-On-Drug-Charges

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

Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.

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BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com

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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By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 3:56PM BST 15 Jul 2009

Internet addiction has become a growing problem in China, where officials believe as many as four million people spend more than six hours a day online.

Several clinics have sprung up, offering parents the chance to “cure” their children of the uncontrollable urge to blog or play online games.

Tao Ran, from the Beijing Military General Hospital, runs a camp which gives addicts a mixture of counselling, military discipline and hypnosis.

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NEWS RELEASE — immediate release
MindFreedom International & California Network of Mental Health Clients
Contact: David Oaks (541) 345-9106 or Delphine Brody (916) 443-3232,
Ext. 19

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YOU MAY DOWNLOAD PDF of a two-page flier and below news release about
protest here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/apa
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Mental Health Clients and Psychiatric Survivors to Lead Protest of
APA Annual Meeting

Protesters Say: “Our Creative Support Will Overcome Psychiatric Corruption!”

When: *This* Sunday, 17 May 2009, 1 PM Where: Moscone Center, San Francisco

When psychiatric drug companies open up their famously lavish exhibits
inside the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting at
Moscone Center, mental health clients and psychiatric survivors plan
to hold a “Nonviolent Festival of Resistance” directly in front, with
speakers, music and free refreshments.

The protest is part of a growing “Mad Pride” movement that has been
seeking change in mental health care for 40 years, and is finally
gaining more public attention, such as in a recent two-page feature in
Newsweek (2 May 2009, page 54, http://www.newsweek.com/id/195694). The
Sunday, May 17 event is co-sponsored by nonprofit groups MindFreedom
International (MFI) and California Network of Mental Health Clients
(CNMHC). The action is completely independent, with no connection to
a protest the day before by the Church of Scientology’s organization
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).

Delphine Brody, a protest organizer with CNMHC, said, “We intend to
celebrate the healing power of peer support, and wellness/recovery-
based alternatives to the ‘medical’ model upheld by a psychiatric
profession that has sold out to the drug industry. Psychiatric
corruption kills. But mad pride heals!” Protesters are calling on the
public to join in with costumes, props and signs, and hope to create a
YouTube video of the street theater.

David Oaks, Director of MFI, from Oregon, said, “Martin Luther King
often called for us all to be ‘creatively maladjusted’ to overcome
injustice and embrace dignity and freedom. We mental health clients
and survivors of psychiatric abuse have a resiliency that can help a
world in crisis. All are welcome to join us!”

Ashley McNamara with Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, one of
the protest endorsers, said, “In a world where we are overwhelmed by
so much violence and catastrophe, on scales both personal and global,
I find it astounding that the ‘medical experts’ favor biological
diagnoses and pharmaceutical treatments above all other ways of
understanding mental distress and engaging in healing.” The protest is
also endorsed by the Social Accountability Work Group.

Mental health workers, family members and the general public are all
invited to participate in the legal and peaceful festival. San
Francisco mental health counselor Matthew Morrissey said, “I’m
protesting against the APA’s insistence on reducing the meaning of our
thoughts and feelings to brain diseases and also for the adoption of
safer, more empowering alternatives.”

Other confirmed speakers include: Larry Belcher, Executive Director,
CNMHC; Frank Blankenship, psychiatric survivor organizer from Florida;
Leonard Roy Frank, activist, author & electroshock survivor; Al
Galves, PhD, of New Mexico: psychologist, mental health consumer,
author, MFI board member; Ellen G. Levine, PhD, MPH., Psychologists
for an Ethical APA; Ron Unger, mental health counselor from Oregon;
Sally Zinman, long-time client/survivor activist; and many more.

For more information phone David Oaks at (541) 345-9106 or Delphine
Brody (916) 443-3232, Ext. 19. E-mail to action@mindfreedom.org.