{"id":24,"date":"2007-09-10T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:44:36","slug":"convicted-psychiatrist-remained-on-payroll-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/10\/convicted-psychiatrist-remained-on-payroll-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Psychiatrist Remained on Payroll for Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta content=\"Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)\" name=\"Generator\" \/><\/p>\n<style>      <!--   \/* Font Definitions *\/   @font-face  \t{font-family:Verdana;  \tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}  @font-face  \t{font-family:AntiquaSSK;  \tpanose-1:0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}  @font-face  \t{font-family:Tahoma;  \tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}   \/* Style Definitions *\/   p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  \t{margin:0in;  \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;  \tfont-size:12.0pt;  \tfont-family:Verdana;}  h1  \t{margin-top:12.0pt;  \tmargin-right:0in;  \tmargin-bottom:3.0pt;  \tmargin-left:0in;  \tpage-break-after:avoid;  \tfont-size:16.0pt;  \tfont-family:Arial;}  h2  \t{margin-top:12.0pt;  \tmargin-right:0in;  \tmargin-bottom:3.0pt;  \tmargin-left:0in;  \tpage-break-after:avoid;  \tfont-size:14.0pt;  \tfont-family:Arial;  \tfont-style:italic;}  a:link, span.MsoHyperlink  \t{color:blue;  \ttext-decoration:underline;}  a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed  \t{color:purple;  \ttext-decoration:underline;}  p.CCHRHeading, li.CCHRHeading, div.CCHRHeading  \t{margin-top:12.0pt;  \tmargin-right:0in;  \tmargin-bottom:3.0pt;  \tmargin-left:0in;  \ttext-align:center;  \tpage-break-after:avoid;  \tfont-size:18.0pt;  \tfont-family:AntiquaSSK;  \tfont-weight:bold;}  @page Section1  \t{size:8.5in 11.0in;  \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}  div.Section1  \t{page:Section1;}  --><\/style>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pqasb.pqarchiver.com\/latimes\/access\/1267562411.html?dids=1267562411:1267562411&#038;FMT=ABS&#038;FMTS=ABS:FT&#038;type=current&#038;date=May+9%2C+2007&#038;author=David+Willman&#038;pub=Los+Angeles+Times&#038;edition=&#038;startpage=A.16&#038;desc=The+Nation%3B+Penalized+researcher+retires%3B+The+psychiatrist+came+to+symbolize+improper+NIH+ties+to+drug+firms.+He+had+pleaded+guilty+to+a+conflict+charge.\"><em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>(Wednesday, 5\/9\/07)<\/a>, psychiatrist Trey Sunderland, a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ca lasting symbol of the agency\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s entanglements with drug companies,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d remained on the federal payroll several months after he pleaded guilty to a federal conflict-of-interest charge relating to hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from pharmaceutical companies. Last December, a U.S. District Judge fined Sunderland $300,000 and sentenced him to two years of supervised probation and 400 hours of community service. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Representative Joe L. Barton called the NIH &#8220;an ethical Potemkin village [something that appears effective but isn&#8217;t], where a hollow system appears to provide the illusion of integrity, but transgressors never leave.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog group, says that criminality is rife within the mental health system, so much so that it has tracked more than 1,000 convictions of psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health workers and created a database as a public warning.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"> Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychcrime.org\/\"><span style=\"color: windowtext\">www.psychcrime.org<\/span><\/a>, it was established as a public service to law enforcement agencies, health care fraud investigators, medical and psychological licensing boards and the general public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The <em>LA Times<\/em> story follows Massachusetts psychiatrist Daniel J. Carlat\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s admission to the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, stating: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOur [psychiatric] field as a whole is progressively being purchased lock, stock, and barrel by the drug companies: this includes the diagnoses, the treatment guidelines, and the national meetings.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">To read more about conflicts of interest in the mental health field, read CCHR\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s publication, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/files\/13164\/DSM_paper.pdf\"><span style=\"color: windowtext\">Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual Link to Drug Manufacturers<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Los Angeles Times (Wednesday, 5\/9\/07), psychiatrist Trey Sunderland, a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ca lasting symbol of the agency\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s entanglements with drug companies,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d remained on the federal payroll several months after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/10\/convicted-psychiatrist-remained-on-payroll-for-months\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}