Top Five Psychiatric Drugs Linked to Violence
To assert psychiatry is careless in prescribing drugs for its various diagnosed disorders is a monstrous trivialization of the problem. Many of their drugs have been directly linked to suicide and...
View ArticleHouston Hospital Leaders Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Alarming...
Details of the fraud allegations against Riverside General Hospital executives The bulk of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations against Gibson, et al. center around Riverside’s psychiatric...
View ArticlePsychiatric Drugs Are False Prophets With Big Profits - Psychiatry has been...
From a column in Psychiatry Today by Robert Berezin M.D. While I do not think that psychotherapy is very workable, his criticism of psychiatry is spot on. Once again, I just finished another...
View ArticleMy Trip Through the Polypharmacy Blender
A long story by Rory Tennes on the Risx website, describing his descent into psychiatric hell. We only present a few snippets, and recommend reading the full article. I was asked by David Healy to...
View ArticleRecruitment for Psychiatric Treatment Trials: An Ethical Investigation
Abstract of the Report (Paid Access for full article) This article is about ethics, specifically, the myriad of unethical practices characterizing recruitment for psychiatric trials. Using a case study...
View ArticleWoman tells of 'hell on earth' at Limerick psychiatric unit
A Sad story of a woman trying to get help, and the failure of the psychiatric system in here city to help. Snippet from a much longer story The HSE has said it is to investigate concerns raised by a...
View ArticleState of Conneticut Reaches False Claims Act Settlement with Providers at...
From this Conneticut Attorney General Press Release. A social worker and a doctor will pay a total of $120,000 to Connecticut's Medical Assistance Program (CMAP) through settlement agreements that...
View ArticleFormer Psychiatrist Sentenced for Child Sex Crimes
A Report from WNEP Michael Kessler was sentenced to state prison Friday for trying to lure a 13-year-old boy to meet him for sex back in 2013. “Michael, why did you tell the court you're sorry? Are you...
View ArticleTeens are prescribed more medications than ever, while teenage suicides are...
One of the paradoxes of child and adolescent psychiatry is that, at a time when teens are prescribed more medications than ever, teenage suicides are soaring. Antidepressants and antipsychotics are...
View ArticleCalifornia suspends license for Fairfield psychiatrist
From a much larger report in the Daily Republic The state has temporarily suspended the license for Dr. William Munn after the Medical Board of California said the psychiatrist, in private practice...
View ArticleAn abrupt end for Houston psychiatric hospital Cambridge facility gives up...
One of Houston's largest inpatient psychiatric hospitals closed suddenly last week, leaving a void in a city already underserved. The 148-bed facility at 7601 Fannin had operated as Cambridge Hospital...
View ArticleAnother ethics scandal for the University of Minnesota Dept. of Psychiatry
From a Report on Fox 9 News Video available at the link The University of Minnesota has another ethics scandal on its hands. And once again it involves the Department of Psychiatry. This latest case of...
View ArticleThe Hoffman Report: The Investigation into the American Psychological...
The Hoffman Report is the informal name for the 2015 investigation into the American Psychological Association’s (APA) practices regarding its relaxing of ethical standards for psychologists involved...
View ArticleOwners of local mental health clinics face fraud charges
As Reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed a civil health care fraud lawsuit Monday, under the False Claims Act, against...
View ArticleActive Shooters and Psychotropic Drugs
Taken from the much larger article which is a book review of "Active Shooters and Psychotropic Drugs SSRI’s" by Chris Grollnek and Chris Magee. Without quoting the full review, all we really need to is...
View ArticlePoor treatment at Lehigh Valley mental health clinics was evident, patients say
From a longer report in the Lehigh Valley Live website Photo caption:Lehigh Valley Community Mental Health Centers Inc. at 226 Northampton St., Easton, is seen July 20, 2015. It is one of 10 mental...
View ArticleTimberlawn mental hospital cut off from federal funding over safety issues
From a much long report in the Dallas News Federal regulators are taking the rare step of kicking one of North Texas’ largest psychiatric hospitals out of the Medicare and Medicaid programs for leaving...
View ArticleAnchorage Doctor Sentenced to 3 ½ years for Fraudulently Billing Medicaid and...
State of Alaska Press Release here The Alaska Department of Law, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, announced today that 40-year-old Dr. Shubhranjan Ghosh was sentenced to 3 ½ years of active incarceration....
View ArticleNotorious Psych Ward at Miami-Dade Jail Finally Shuttered
From this report in the Prison Legal News Website In a historic culmination to decades of “horrific” living conditions and a pattern of constitutional violations, the Miami-Dade County Jail in Florida...
View ArticleRiverside psychiatrist pleads not guilty in Medicare scheme
Report from the Houston Chronicle A Houston psychiatrist who was indicted separately in the Riverside General Hospital $160 million Medicare billing fraud scheme pleaded not guilty on Friday and...
View ArticlePaul Corona, 'Guru' doctor of mood-stabilizing drugs on probation for second...
From the Orange County Register A doctor who described himself in an Orange County Register investigation as the “guru” of mood-stabilizing drugs has been put on probation for the second time by state...
View ArticleMy son died in a mental health facility. If we keep protecting dangerous...
From the Washington Post. Full article at the link On Nov. 23, I received the call no parent wants to get – my only son was dead. My beautiful, 24-year-old boy was gone. It is a nightmare I have yet to...
View ArticleVA doctor arrested in Danville for overdose deaths of 3 patients in Indiana
Via this report A VA doctor was arrested in Danville Thursday morning for reckless homicide charges filed by prosecutors in Indiana. The criminal counts announced Friday by the Marion County...
View ArticleThe “Institutional Corruption” of Psychiatry: A Conversation with Authors of...
We present at this link an interview with the authors of Psychiatry Under the Influence Here's a snippet Bruce Levine: Psychiatry Under the Influence attempts to understand psychiatry’s denial and...
View ArticleNew York man charged with impersonating doctor, potentially providing mental...
From this report from Q13 Fox Donald Lee-Edwards was arrested this week and accused of impersonating a clinical psychologist and medical doctor for three years and potentially providing mental health...
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