{"id":346,"date":"2010-10-26T18:21:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T00:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:07","slug":"short-news-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/26\/short-news-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Short News Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psychiatrist in Israel was recently arrested for alleged fraud when it was  discovered that he fraudulently diagnosed dozens of students with mental illness  so that they could receive a stipend from the National Insurance Institute. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/national\/psychiatrist-suspected-of-handing-out-fraudulent-diagnoses-to-haredis-1.319781\">http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/national\/psychiatrist-suspected-of-handing-out-fraudulent-diagnoses-to-haredis-1.319781<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer decided not to proceed with a clinical trial of its antipsychotic drug  Geodon for children. The FDA had warned Pfizer that there was widespread  overdosing of patients due to inadequate monitoring by Pfizer. Last September,  Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges for  improper marketing of drugs including Geodon. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/aspx\/company-news-story.aspx?storyid=201006231755dowjonesdjonline000603\">http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/aspx\/company-news-story.aspx?storyid=201006231755dowjonesdjonline000603<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Georgia recently committed to spend millions of dollars to help  mentally ill and developmentally disabled people move out of state mental  hospitals and receive services in the community. Georgia pays an average of  $174,000 per year to house a person in a state-run hospital, compared with  $47,000 for in-home services. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had previously  exposed that dozens of patients in Georgia&#8217;s psychiatric hospitals had died from  abuse.\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state-justice-department-reach-685948.html\">http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state-justice-department-reach-685948.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>There are workable alternatives to psychiatry&#8217;s mind-, brain- and  body-damaging treatments. With psychiatry now calling for mandatory mental  illness screening for adults and children everywhere, we urge all who have an  interest in preserving the mental health, the physical health and the freedom of  their families, communities and nations, to find out for themselves. Something  must be done to establish real help for those who need it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Homelessness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/homelessness.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download and read the full CCHR report <em>Community  Ruin \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Psychiatry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Coercive \u00e2\u20ac\u2122Care\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Report and recommendations on the failure  of community mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short News Takes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/26\/short-news-takes\/\">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-346","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-5A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}