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* Psychiatry has the worst fraud track record of all medical disciplines.
* The largest health care fraud suit in history [$375 million] involved the smallest sector of healthcare–psychiatry.
* An estimated $20-$40 billion is defrauded in the mental health industry in any
given year.
1.  Establish or increase the number of psychiatric fraud investigation units to recover funds that are embezzled in the mental health system.
2.  Clinical and financial audits of all government-run and private psychiatric facilities that receive government subsidies or insurance payments should be done to ensure accountability; statistics on admissions, treatment and deaths, without breaching patient confidentiality, should be compiled for review.
3.  A list of convicted psychiatrists and mental health workers, especially those convicted and/or disciplined for fraud and sexual abuse should be kept on state, national and international law enforcement and police agencies databases, to prevent criminally convicted and/or deregistered mental health practitioners from gaining employment elsewhere in the mental health field.
4.  No convicted mental health practitioner should be employed by government agencies, especially in correctional/prison facilities or schools.
5.  The DSM and/or lCD (mental disorders section) should be removed from use in all government agencies, departments and other bodies including criminal, educational and justice systems.
6.  Establish rights for patients and their insurance companies to receive refunds for mental health treatment which did not achieve the promised result or improvement, or which resulted in proven harm to the individual, thereby ensuring that responsibility lies with the individual practitioner and psychiatric facility rather than the government or its agencies.
7.  None of the 374 mental disorders in the DSM/ICD should be eligible for insurance coverage because they have no scientific, physical validation. Governmental, criminal, educational and judicial agencies should not
rely on the DSM or lCD (mental disorders section).
8.  Provide funding and insurance coverage only for proven, workable treatments that verifiably and dramatically improve or cure mental health problems.
We think it is time to call psychiatry and psychology for what they are — failed pseudo sciences with no basis in fact, pseudo sciences that harm their recipients and line the pocketbooks of their practitioners.
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New Video and Blog from CCHR International
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Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is a former 10-year Pharma Sales Rep and Writer/Director of the feature film Side Effects starring Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy). In this video she discusses the billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical marketing campaign designed to get millions of people on psychotropic drugs through slick drug ads and marketing campaigns that include ghost writing pro drug articles for medical journals.
Click to watch Hyla Cass, Psychiatrist
Mental Health Care should be held to the ethical creed, “First, Do No Harm” and should be driven by positive patient outcomes, not profit.
Psychiatric drugs pose very real health risks including psychosis, worsening depression, diabetes, stroke and sudden death.
There are non-harmful medical solutions that do not require stigmatizing psychiatric labels and dangerous drugs.
Psychiatrist Hyla Cass explains in this short video.
by David Knowles
SPHERE
November 24, 2009
In California, the state with the nation’s most permissive medical marijuana law, several doctors say that some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are being treated with marijuana – a fact that has sparked a heated debate.
“Let me count the ways in which prescribing marijuana for teens with ADHD is a bad idea,” said Stephen Hinshaw, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Marijuana, Hinshaw said, is a “cognitive disorganizer” that produces roughly the same effect in users as those associated with ADHD.
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by Genita Petralli, Nutritional Biochemist“My life is dedicated to reclaiming lives from psychiatric drugs and exposing psychiatry for what it is; a gang of white collar drug pushers robbing our society of every resource that supports it right down to our future; the children.
“As a scientist and licensed practitioner I want to educate all those interested in what is causing the epidemic mental health crisis of today, how to avoid it, how to get off of psych drugs if you are on them now, and why toxic drugs should not ever be called medicine.”
A new study published November 12, 2009 in the American Journal of Public Health concludes that prescription drug direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) carries significant risks for the public.
There were 36 million prescriptions issued for antidepressant drugs in the United Kingdom in 2008, nearly one for every adult in the population, according to numbers obtained by the Liberal Democrat party. The number is 2.1 million higher than in 2007.
According to an October 20, 2009 press release from Georgetown University Medical Center, some drugs used to treat epilepsy, mood disorders and pain may predispose to psychiatric disorders later in life.
People with heart disease and similar conditions who don’t have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the “sunshine vitamin,” according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando. This link seems to be even stronger in the winter.
BARLOW SMITH, TEXAS On October 12, 2009, the Medical Board of California issued a Public Letter of Reprimand on psychiatrist BARLOW SMITH of Marble Falls, Texas (Smith is licensed in both states). The state took this action in response to disciplinary action taken against Smith in Texas. On June 18, 2009, the Texas Medical Board reprimanded Smith for unprofessional conduct. The Board found that Barlow engaged in repeated sexual contact with a former patient who was treated by Smith three times in 2007 for depression. The former patient revealed to Smith during her initial assessment that she had a history of sexual abuse in her childhood. In addition to the Texas reprimand, Smith was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and successfully complete a professional boundaries course.
Source: Public Letter of Reprimand, Barlow Smith, M.D., Physician’s and Surgeon’s Certificate No. 6-35320, Case No. 16-2009-201531, Medical Board of California, October 12, 2009 and “Marble Falls psychiatrist disciplined for sex with former patient,” Burnet Bulletin, September 1, 2009.
MARYANN THERESA WEISMAN, PENNSYLVANIA On October 27, 2009, the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine indefinitely suspended psychiatrist MARYANN THERESA WEISMAN because she was unfit to practice as a physician due to mental illness.
Source: Entry on Maryann Theresa Weisman, as found in monthly online Disciplinary Actions report of the Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, October, 2009.
SHADI DUCHESNE, PENNSYLVANIA On October 27, 2009, the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine suspended psychiatrist SHADI DUCHESNE for no less than three years, with suspension immediately stayed in favor of no less than three years of probation, said probation retroactive to September 23, 2008, and subject to certain terms and conditions, because she pled guilty to and was convicted of a misdemeanor relating to a health profession.
Source: Entry on Shadi Duchesne, as found in monthly online Disciplinary Actions report of the Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, October, 2009.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 301 No. 23, June 17, 2009.
“This meta-analysis yielded no evidence that the serotonin transporter genotype alone or in interaction with stressful life events is associated with an elevated risk of depression in men alone, women alone, or in both sexes combined.”
What This New Study Means
This means that research claiming that “depression” has a genetic cause is flawed; there is no credible evidence that depression is genetic and linked to serotonin transport, which also calls into serious question claims that SSRI drugs [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors] have any valid use for depression.
In fact, there is no medical illness called “depression.” While it is true that people do have problems for which they may need help, the psychiatric diagnosis of a mental illness called depression disorder is fraudulent since it is based solely on subjective criteria (for example, asking a person if they are depressed); there are no clinical tests for depression — no blood tests, no urine tests, no genetic markers, no x-rays, no brain scans. And thus the prescription of addictive and harmful psychotropic drugs for this non-existent illness is also fraudulent and done just for money.
What Should Be Done About It
So how do you help someone who says they are depressed? That’s fairly easy — you find out exactly what their problem is and fix that.
The solution is proper medical care. Article 3 of CCHR’s Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights states that any patient has “The right to have a thorough physical and clinical examination by a competent registered general practitioner of one’s choice, to ensure that one’s mental condition is not caused by any undetected and untreated physical illness, injury or defect, and the right to seek a second medical opinion of one’s choice.”
CCHR has long been an advocate for competent, non-psychiatric, medical evaluation of people with mental problems. Undiagnosed and untreated physical conditions can manifest as “psychiatric” symptoms. In 1982, CCHR campaigned for Senate Bill 929 in California that established a pilot project to provide medical evaluation of people in public psychiatric hospitals. Subsequently, the California Department of Mental Health Medical Evaluation Field Manual—which CCHR assisted in introducing—stated: â€Mental health professionals working within a mental health system have a professional and a legal obligation to recognize the presence of physical disease in their patients…physical diseases may cause a patient’s mental disorder [or] may worsen a mental disorder.”
More information about non-abusive alternatives to psychiatric treatment is available here.
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When psychiatry entered the justice and penal systems, it did so under the subterfuge that it understood man, that it knew not only what made man act as he did, but that it knew how to improve his lot. This was a lie. Psychiatry has had opportunity to prove itself. The experiment has been a miserable failure.
This report is a detailed examination of the fierce assault on the justice system that has occurred over the past six decades — and not only by criminals. There is a hidden influence in our courts, one which, while loudly asserting its expertise and desire to help, has instead betrayed our most deeply held values and brought us a burgeoning prison population at soaring public costs. That influence is psychiatry and psychology.
A major part of the treatment for prison inmates (used less for rehabilitation than for managing and disciplining inmates)Â is a regimen of powerful psychiatric drugs, despite numerous studies showing that aggression and violence are tied to their use.
In the 1940’s, psychiatry’s leaders proclaimed their intention to infiltrate the field of the law and bring about the “re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong.” And they did, with the consequence that today, because of their influence, the system is failing. Now it is up to the many conscientious, hardworking and increasingly disheartened people within the system to realize this and rid it of these destructive intruders.
In this report, we hope to help you understand how this occurred. We show how psychiatry’s ideologies and actions have contributed to today’s failing criminal rehabilitation and increasing crime rate. Finally, we propose to reverse these trends. We trust that the information will help those of goodwill and integrity correct a system that is failing its citizenry. The decent, the productive, the vast majority of us, deserve no less.
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said October 29, 2009 that it had reached a $520 million agreement to settle two federal investigations and two whistle-blower lawsuits over the sale and marketing of its psychiatric drug Seroquel, which has been increasingly used for children and elderly people for indications not approved by the FDA.
AstraZeneca’s third quarter operating profit was $3.6 billion. There are currently 14,444 civil lawsuits over the damaging side effects and misleading marketing of Seroquel. Does this suggest anything to you about the rising cost of health care?
Seroquel (generic name quetiapine) is a newer atypical antipsychotic or major tranquilizer with side effects such as depression, liver failure, diabetes, impotence, heart failure, hostility, and suicidal thoughts. This class of drugs are also called neuroleptics, which means nerve seizing.
In 2001 the Journal of Toxicology reported that the newer antipsychotics “will soon account for the majority of poisonings from antipsychotic agents that get presented to health care facilities in the U.S.â€
In 2006 an analysis of FDA data showed at least 45 children died between 2000 and 2004 from the side effects of this type of antipsychotic drug. Despite an adults-only FDA approval for these drugs, up to 2.5 million children were prescribed them. As the FDA’s Adverse Drug Reactions reporting database only collects 1% to 10% of drug-induced side effects and reported deaths, the true child death rate could be between 450 and several thousand.
In April 2009 the Irish Medicines Board published in their Drug Safety Newsletter a warning about antipsychotics causing a risk of stroke.
Do you want your friends and family to play Russian Roulette with these drugs, when there are many effective non-drug alternatives?
For more information about alternatives, go to http://cchrstl.org/alternatives.shtml.
For more information about the causes of mental symptoms and how drugs work, go to http://cchrstl.org/causes.shtml.
For more information about psychiatric drug side effects, go to http://cchrstl.org/sideeffects.shtml.
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/business/30drug.html?_r=4]
