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5 Jul 2017 - Commentary on the above: If there is little in the way of incentive
to change, they are not going to do it. It there is no real
punishment, painful fine or mandatory restitution, they will never make
the required and ordered changes. Kaiser Papers commentary specific to the DMHC 2017 Survey of Kaiser Permanente. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/2017dmhc.html
Oct 14, 2015 - Class Claims Kaiser Has Lax Suicide Care by Barbara
Wallace http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/10/14/class-claims-kaiser-has-lax-suicide-care.htm
"LOS ANGELES (CN) - A class led by a woman who sought care while
suicidal claims Kaiser's mental health care does not measure up, in Los
Angeles County Superior Court.
........ "With no other
choice to save her life, given her deep depression and suicidal
ideation, and the ineffectiveness of her monthly medication
appointments with Kaiser psychiatrists without accompanying therapy,
S.F. sought and began weekly individual therapy outside Kaiser," the
complaint continues.
Three years later,
S.F. felt emotionally stable enough to handle her business affairs and
submitted claims for reimbursement to Kaiser, according to the
complaint. Kaiser denied her claims.
S.F. contends her
therapy expenses should be reimbursed because her Kaiser psychiatrist
and a Kaiser Licensed Clinical Social Worker both knew she was seeing
outside therapists and recommended that she continue." Sept 16, 2015 -Kaiser
loses in court, now hiring mental health workers By Rachel
Raskin-Zrihen, Vallejo Times-Herald http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_28830043/kaiser-loses-court-now-hiring-mental-health-workers Kaiser Permanente increased by nearly half the number
of its
mental health clinicians in California in the past four years and plans
to hire another 354 by the end of this year, officials announced.
........Kaiser Permanente hopes to hire 354 more mental health
professionals throughout California by the end of 2015, especially
those with backgrounds reflecting the diversity of the communities
served, officials said. May
13, 2015 -
"Kaiser Permanente fired a psychologist who blew the whistle on the
HMO's pattern of unlawful delays in providing mental health care
according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, whose members
plan to picket the healthcare giant." Quote attributed to
Katherine Proctor who is with Courthousenews. See: http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/05/13/union-protests-kaisers-firing-of-whistleblower.htm and http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/05/14/union-accuses-kaiser-of-firing-whistleblowing-psychologist February
25, 2015 The
Los Angeles Times along with
several other newspapers reports
that the California Department of Managed Health Care
is once again making it know that Kaiser Permanente is letting down
it's patients by not cleaning up their Mental Health Departments.
DMHC
stated that only two out of four deficiencies have
been
corrected since 2013. DMHC Director Shelley Rouillard wrote
“Kaiser’s actions have not been sufficient to ensure enrollees have
consistent timely access to behavioral health services.”
The
uncorrected deficiencies are: •
Deficiency 3: Although the Plan has made significant strides toward
correcting deficiencies concerning its obligation
to monitor and provide access to behavioral health services,
the Department concludes that the Plan’s
corrective actions have not sufficiently fixed the
access-related problems identified.
•
Deficiency 4: Although the Plan implemented policies requiring
internal review of printed and on-line health education
materials prior to making those materials available to
enrollees, the Department’s review revealed individual
cases in which providers disseminated inaccurate and
misleading health education information to enrollees
regarding the scope of their coverage for behavioral health
services.
August 9, 2013 -- Kaiser to
pay $9M to settle autism therapy suit
Kaiser
Permanente has agreed to pay up to $9 million to settle a class action
that alleged the health plan illegally refused to provide behavioral
therapy for autistic children before it was mandated by state law.
The
lawsuit was filed in Southern California in April 2009 on behalf of
Andrew Arce of Los Angeles and others like him. Andrew was 2 years old
when Kaiser denied coverage for applied behavioral analysis even though
its own doctors said it was medically necessary.
Please read the complete article written by Kathy Robertson of the
Sacramento Business Journal at: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/08/08/kaiser-to-pay-9m-to-settle-autism-suit.html
Kaiser
Self Promotion of Study - How does it feel to patients knowing they
were part of an
experiment/study that appears to have harmed children?
Patient
records are
where many Kaiser studies come from. Rushing too medicate in
an
effort to keep patients quiet often harms patients and future
generations when long-term testing has never been done with these drugs.
We invite you to listen to former Kaiser Permanente Physician, Dr.
Daniel
Trussell speaking on the Highway2Health,
November 9, 2004 program about
the overuse of psychotropics,the testing of them and the reality of
how patients might
unnecessarily be encouraged to use them to quite
frankly, shut them up. This program is titled "A
Candid Conversation
on Psychotropic Medications and The Current State of Psychiatry" by Dr.
Daniel Trussell. Originally recorded on
November 9, 2004
It has been placed online at: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/audio/daniel-trussell-md-nov-9-2004.mp3
Please
note that
the audio could be of a better quality but this is what we have
available right now. It is worth listening
to especially if you
are considering these medications and know little about them. More of
Dr. Trussell
presentations are located at: https://kaiserpapers.com/programs.html
To listen to this program online please click the arrow button:
What
I
would like to see happen is for all Kaiser
Permanente
patients who were diagnosed too quickly as
depressed, thus
given
medication,
all Kaiser Permanente patients who found themselves stuck with
the
same
counselor, Kaiser Permanente patients who needed weekly
sessions,
but
were
granted only a limited number
of sessions per benefit year,
Kaiser
Permanente patients who felt all therapy options were not
exhausted before
being
put on medication, and all those concerned about their loved
ones
who have gone through Kaiser Permanente
Behavioral Health and
want
to complain - to please contact us. Please send an e-mail to: vickie at
kaiserpapers.com
Those
affected by
and associated
with,
Kaiser Permanente Behavioral Health, need to listen
more and
also speak
up."
If you would like your story placed online, please include that
information in your email.
Historic Articles of Interest
Some
Background on
Kaiser Permanente
and Behavioral Health
First
before browsing the following list of informative information on how
the
behavioral health system is often taking advantage of the patient, here
is some really important
background on Kaiser Behavioral Health:
The following
is from "Nicholas A. Cummings Collected Papers Vol. I" -
Page 128 - 129 Note:
Nicolas A. Cummings led the Behavioral Health Division and
worked
it into a money making enterprise. He also is the person that
made sure psychiatric services were provided by HMO's. That
sounds good doesn't it? Read the following to learn the
motives
behind the actions:
The
Beginning
of the Kaiser Permanente
Mental Health Benefit
"Kaiser Permanente soon found, to its dismay, that once a health system
makes it easy and free to see a physician, there occurs an alarming
inundation of medical utilization
by seemingly physically health persons. In private practice
the
physician's fee has served as a partial deterrent to over-utilization,
until the recent growth of third party payment for health care
services. The financial base at Kaiser Permanente is one of
per capitation, and neither the physician nor the Health Plan
derives an additional fee for seeing the patient. Rather than
becoming
wealthy from imagined physical ills, the system could be bankrupted by
what was regarded as abuse by the hypochondriac.
Early in its history, Kaiser Permanente added
psychotherapy to its list
of services, first on a courtesy reduced fee of five dollars per visit
and eventually as a prepaid benefit. This was initially
motivated not
by a belief in the efficacy of psychotherapy, but by the
urgent need to
get the so-called hypochondriac out of the doctor's office.
From this
initial perception of mental
health as a dumping ground for bothersome
patients, twenty years of research has led to the
conclusion that no
comprehensive prepaid health system can survive that does not provide a
psychotherapy benefit.
Early
investigations confirmed physicians fears they
were being inundated, for it was found that 60% of all visits were by
patients who had nothing physically wrong with them. Add to
this the
medical visits by patients whose physical illnesses are stress related
(peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, hypertension, etc.), and the total
approaches a staggering 80 to 90% of all physician visits. Surprisingly
as these findings were 25 years ago, nationally accepted estimates
today range from 50 to 80% (Shapiro, 1971) Interestingly,
over 2,000 years ago
Galen pointed out that 60% of all persons visiting a doctor suffered
from symptoms that were caused emotionally, rather than physically
(Shapiro, 1971).
-------------------------
Timothy
Leary was the Director
of the Kaiser Foundation Psychological Research from 1952
to 1958. He did a lot of research on how to control and
manipulate a population. He led a wild lifestyle up at Kaiser
where -
"In the
mid-1950s Leary worked as
director of Psychological Research
at the Kaiser Foundation and taught at Berkeley University. There he
and
his wife were involved in heavy drinking and adulterous wife swapping.
In early 1960, he joined the Harvard Center for Personality Research.
That
same year Leary took his first dosage of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and
he was permanently changed. Believing that psilocybin mushrooms created
mystical perception that could reprogram the brain, Leary persuaded the
school authorities to allow him to devise and administer the "Harvard
Drug
Research Program." Please
read:
There
are several variations of why Tim Leary was fired from Kaiser. Most of
the explanations sound petty. Only one sounds logical and
provides a reasonable explanation. The following version is
from
Nicholas A. Cummings who replaced Timothy Leary. Quotes are
from:
"The Entrepreneur of Psychology: The Collected Papers of
Nicholas
A. Cummings"
pages 5 and 6 -
The Role of
the Somatizer inb the Development of the Health Plan
Early
in the 1950's, the Permanente physicians discovered that 60% of all
visits to physicians were by patients who either had no physical
illness, or had a physical illness that was being exacerbated by
psychological factors. Today, this is a nationally recognized
phenomenon, and the American Medical Association (AMA) accepts 60% to
70% as the national figure. The reason it was first
discovered at Kaiser Permanente was the nature of the health plan
itself. See: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/tleary.html#leary1
The
Leary material is very important as it sources all that has
followed while providing somewhat of a road map for understanding what
in the world these people are really doing.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/whccamp/meetings/transcript
_9_8_00_s3_4_5.html
"Targeting the
insurance companies of the
nation
is important to identify the idea that
upstream intervention is going
to
save the
insurance dollar. There is cost savings and
the business
department of
Kaiser has data to
support that.
As
long as the outcomes
are behaviorally based,
we can measure the outcomes in terms
of reduced
medical visits and reduced medical visits translates to dollars,
savings.
"
mirrored
at: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/cam1.html
Now
Learn
how this branch of
medicine is used to control, bribe and sometimes treat people.
A
Letter
from Douglas Beech, M.D. While
reading about the outcome
of Dr. Thomas Jensen’s suit against Kaiser Permanente’s San Diego
HMO in the October 6 issue, I was painfully reminded just how far the collective
mentality of psychiatry has plunged into a managed care paradigm of
minimalism. Dr.
Jensen protested the policy of the HMO that "required" psychiatrists to prescribe
without personal examination of a patient. Physicians who participate
in such a practice do not have the HMO policy to blame, but the outcry
suggested that the policy was responsible for physicians’ not
performing their required duty. Please
read: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/beechy.html
Kaiser
Defends Mental Health Coverage As 'team-Based' Kaiser
Permanente,
under investigation
in California for requiring psychiatrists to write drug prescriptions
for
mental health patients whom they have not seen, on Thursday defended
its
practice as "team-based."https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/team.html
LEADER'S
MANUAL FOR ADOLESCENT GROUPS ADOLESCENT COPING WITH DEPRESSION
COURSE Gregory Clarke, Ph.D. Peter
Lewinsohn, PhD ...
In
short - Kaiser realizes that there is big money to be made in kid's
being labeled as depressed. It is a great excuse for another
study that leads to many new government funded contracts. http://www.kpchr.org/public/acwd/CWDA_manual.pdf
Kaiser
Mid Atlantic States caring for mental health of adolescents.
Development
of
KP Services for Adolescents
"In
1955, KP San Francisco opened one of the first teen clinics in the
country (Charles Wibbelsman, MD, personal communication).a
In 1986, KP expanded that care by opening a comprehensive teen center
in Panorama City, California. The center is staffed by a
multidisciplinary team that includes nurses, physicians specializing in
adolescent medicine, a health educator, and a social worker. The center
maintains a collaborative relationship with the department of
obstetrics and gynecology and monitors pregnant and high-risk teens to
assure compliance with established standards of health care delivery
and confidentiality. " http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/winter02/westeast.html regarding
the above article
please again review the top listed article about Dr. Leary
Articles
related to the over medicating of patients
The
following is reported as the current state of over medication of
children. Did you know that in 1970, Kaiser reported to Congress that
30% of the students in San Francisco area Elementary Schools were
medicated and the Congressional Investigator reportedthat this was an
instance of disease being created for a drug? - See: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/1970.html
Is your child being "mentally
screened" at school without your knowledge
or permission?
Students
have been lured into taking the "test" by being given free movie
tickets and food. From what I understand, TeenScreen is now in place in
over 12 states, and in over 450 schools. To see if your state is
supporting TeenScreen, check out this web site. http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0524zizza.html
Alliance for Human
Research Protection
GAO Report "Two million
people are injured
annually from prescribed pharmaceuticals--106,000 die from adverse
prescription drug effects--in
addition to 98,000 drug related deaths in hospitals due to errors." http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/28/
Drip Drip
Drip - Paxil Info Leaks Out
April 25,
2006. By Evelyn Pringle Secrecy
agreements in litigation
hide information about defective
products or a company's negligence, and sometimes go so far as to
prohibit the parties from discussing that there ever was a lawsuit.
Such is the case with Paxil and as a result, unwitting patients
continued to take the drug long after its dangers were known to
GlaxoSmithKline.
Many
lawsuits filed against Glaxo have been settled out of court, with
confidential agreements that prevent the public from knowing about the
harmful effects of the Paxil. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/paxil.html
Children
Should Not Be Over Medicated
Like many
mental health reform
advocates, I was thrown into the fire via a deeply personal life
experience.When I carefully "weaned/tapered" a child off 20mg of the
powerful antidepressant Paxil, little did I know that the personal can
be quite political. Families in this great country of ours, if not
throughout the entire world, are much safer and happier as children
live their lives again without antidepressants and psychotropic drugs. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/druggedkids.html
Prescribing
Practices BY
DANIEL B. BORENSTEIN, M.D The patients
were evaluated by
other mental health professionals or trainees, following which the
Kaiser psychiatrists were asked to prescribe psychotropic medications
without a comprehensive or any other face-to-face evaluation.
Apparently, this practice had been going on for more than 10 years and
had never caught the attention of either the licensing authorities or
the psychiatric society. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/frompresident.html
Kaiser
therapists stage one-day strike
Kaiser’s
requirement that they take on 10 new patients
a week—in addition to their regular caseload—so
overloads the
system that it takes
about two weeks for a new patient to
get an
initial appointment with a counselor, and sometimes
three
to four
weeks for a follow-up
visit. http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep98/strike.html
Health
care system plays mind games with emotionally ill, critics say Kaiser
sent her to a
psychiatrist who put her on Prozac
and suggested that she attend group therapy, neither of which, she
said,
helped her with the insomnia, anger and depression she was
suffering
from
a childhood trauma.
"It
seemed like the psychiatrist's primary job was
dispensing
Prozac," Ann said. "There was no mention of psychotherapy. I
was sent
to
a group and listened to other women's horror stories. It
was really
of no
help." http://www.nomanagedcare.org/mindgmesa.htm
The
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
- Commissioner's
Fraud Report
Written
for law
enforcement agencies, insurance
companies and
others concerned
with bringing escalating mental
health fraud
under
the law, this
report
from CCHR provides information
on criminal
and civil fraud prosecutions
in the mental
health
industry.
Understanding
the Opportunities of Integrated
Primary Care
Integrated
delivery
systems such as Kaiser Permanente currently
have an
advantage for successfully implementing IPCs
because
the financial
incentives are
more easily aligned
than is
usually the
case.
"Three
tenets are important to
recognize as being
inherent in this shift:
Healthcare design is best done
from a population
management point of
view.
Resources need to be
allocated
to fit the composite of healthcare needs
of members, viewed from a population management perspective.
June 14, 2014 - The Press
Democrat - Reporter Martin Espinoza Andy Weisskoff, who worked as a
psychotherapist at Kaiser for nearly eight years, accuses the HMO of
giving short shrift to one-on-one therapy and under-staffing the ranks
of therapists. The practice, he claims, creates long waits between
individual therapy sessions, leading to a deterioration in his
patients' mental health.
April 4, 2014 - LAWRENCEVILLE,
Ga. (CN) - An elderly man killed his wife of 40 years because of
Kaiser's poor psychiatric care, he and his brother-in-law claim in
Gwinnett County State Court. Representation by: James R.
Hodes
and Esther Panitch of The Panitch Law Group in Atlanta. http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/04/04/66789.htm March
31, 2014 - http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/03/31/66628.htm
Kaiser
illegally fails to treat serious mental illness on par with treatment
for physical illness, a class claims in a lawsuit filed last week.
Charles Dion sued Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, on behalf of himself
and other plan members with serious mental illnesses, in Alameda County
Superior Court. ......
The class claims Kaiser participates in unfair business practices, and
seeks declaratory and injunctive relief.
The class is
represented by Robert S. Gianelli and Jully C. Pae of Gianelli and
Morris, a Law Corporation, in Los Angeles, and Scott C. Glovesky in
Pasadena. http://www.gmlawyers.com/ March 17, 2014 - California State
hits Kaiser with 4 million dollar fine:
The
state of California Department of Managed Health Care said Kaiser made
patients wait at least 14 days after
an appointment before they could call to schedule another one, meaning
a patient could not receive a treatment plan that was pre-scheduled for
several individual appointments over a two- to three-month period among
other things.
Dr.
Andris Skuja, a Kaiser psychologist, offered strong words in reaction
to the news of the $4 million fine and cease-and-desist order.
June 14, 2014 - The Press
Democrat - Reporter Martin Espinoza Andy Weisskoff, who worked as a
psychotherapist at Kaiser for nearly eight years, accuses the HMO of
giving short shrift to one-on-one therapy and under-staffing the ranks
of therapists. The practice, he claims, creates long waits between
individual therapy sessions, leading to a deterioration in his
patients' mental health.
April 4, 2014 - LAWRENCEVILLE,
Ga. (CN) - An elderly man killed his wife of 40 years because of
Kaiser's poor psychiatric care, he and his brother-in-law claim in
Gwinnett County State Court. Representation by: James R.
Hodes
and Esther Panitch of The Panitch Law Group in Atlanta. http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/04/04/66789.htm March
31, 2014 - http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/03/31/66628.htm
Kaiser
illegally fails to treat serious mental illness on par with treatment
for physical illness, a class claims in a lawsuit filed last week.
Charles Dion sued Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, on behalf of himself
and other plan members with serious mental illnesses, in Alameda County
Superior Court. ......
The class claims Kaiser participates in unfair business practices, and
seeks declaratory and injunctive relief.
The class is
represented by Robert S. Gianelli and Jully C. Pae of Gianelli and
Morris, a Law Corporation, in Los Angeles, and Scott C. Glovesky in
Pasadena. http://www.gmlawyers.com/ March 17, 2014 -
Although this
very nice article is basically about the Kaiser employees that work in
the Mental Health division it does point out matters more along the
lines of false advertising, false promises and not honoring contracts
caused by Kaiser inaction.
California Class Action Case RG13697775 - denied access to mental
health services, dissuaded from pursuing
mental
health services, provided with delayed access to mental health services
and/or provided with inaccurate and confusing information
from Kaiser regarding mental health services available
Filing found here for your viewing: https://kaiserpapers.com/legalstuff/pdfs/Futterman-v-KFHP.pdf
Further information including contact info at: https://kaiserpapers.com/legalstuff/cla.html
August 9, 2013 -- Kaiser to
pay $9M to settle autism therapy suit
Kaiser
Permanente has agreed to pay up to $9 million to settle a class action
that alleged the health plan illegally refused to provide behavioral
therapy for autistic children before it was mandated by state law.
The
lawsuit was filed in Southern California in April 2009 on behalf of
Andrew Arce of Los Angeles and others like him. Andrew was 2 years old
when Kaiser denied coverage for applied behavioral analysis even though
its own doctors said it was medically necessary.
Please read the complete article written by Kathy Robertson of the
Sacramento Business Journal at: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/08/08/kaiser-to-pay-9m-to-settle-autism-suit.html
March 18, 2013 - DMHC Report -- Date
Issued To Public
File
Nov - 2011 - "Drawing on a survey of hundreds
ofKaiser’s
mental health clinicians as well as documentation from
regulatory agencies, court filings,
patients and frontline caregivers, this study finds that Kaiser
frequently fails to
comply with California
laws aimed at protecting patients’ timely access to appropriate
services. Furthermore, it finds that Kaiser’s failures are systematic and often
purposeful."
Read the NUHW Report: http://www.nuhw.org/storage/mentalhealth/CareDelayedCareDenied.pdf
mirrored here for historical purposes: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/pdfs/CareDelayedCareDenied.pdf
For
those that question the profits cited please review the IRS reports
that Kaiser files
at: http://www2.guidestar.org/
These reports are free to download and view.
Kaiser
Behavioral Health Hacks provided
the teen patient data for
TeenScreen.
Please Read:
"In
a study of a screening program implemented by Kaiser
Permanente in
Hawaii, research analyzing feedback from
over 5,000 youth showed that
computer-based screening
was very inexpensive when compared to
traditional clinical
services. A cost analysis showed a total cost of
$70 per
visit for a standard preventive visit compared to $15 per
visit
for a computer-assisted health visit (Paperny, D.M.
et. al., 1997,
1999)." See: http://tinyurl.com/23qvte
and mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/pdfs/Comprende.pdf
Daniel E. Troy, Chief Counsel
Food and Drug Administration
Amicus
Brief, September
3, 2002 ; See also: Gary
Young,
FDA legal strategy would preempt tort suits National Law
Journal
March, 2004,
vol.
128; Pg. 3 www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1076428430132
On August
6, Harris portrayed
the changes - such as label
warnings - through the prism of FDA
officials who consistently
side with industry, not drug safety. Dr.
Scott Gottlieb, for
example planted the view that the agency's advisory
committees
"are vulnerable to a growing chorus of criticism," implying
they
are not persuaded by evidence. He then planted the insidious
suggestion (which Harris dutifully reported as fact): "Now,
instead of
waiting for proof, the agency has promised to issue
public health
alerts about drug risks even when problems are
only suspected. And over
the last year, it has demanded that
pharmaceutical companies add tough
warnings for drugs as
diverse as the antidepressant Zoloft, because it
might lead a
small number of teenagers to become suicidal, and the
popular
pain pill Advil, because it might in rare cases cause heart
attacks. "
Gardiner
Harris was badly misled
by FDA officials whose
concern is clearly with business interests when
he wrote that
proof was needed. In point of fact, the Food Drug and
Cosmetics Act (21 CFR 201.57(e) ) REQUIRES warnings
when there is
reason to suspect a hazard: "the labeling shall
be revised to include a
warning as soon as there is reasonable
evidence of an association of a
serious hazard with a drug;
a causal relationship need not have been
proved."
See:http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/09/30.php
Irving
Kirsch, Alan Scoboria, Thomas J. Moore, Antidepressants
and Placebos:
Secrets, Revelations, and Unanswered Questions,
Prevention
& Treatment, Volume
5, Article 33, posted July 15, 2002
there is
now unanimous agreement
among commentators that
the mean difference between response to
antidepressant drugs
and response to inert placebo is very small. It is
so small that,
despite sample sizes involving hundreds of participants,
57%
of the trials funded by the pharmaceutical industry failed to show
a significant difference between drug and placebo. Most of these
negative data were not published and were accessible only by
gaining
access to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
documents. The small
difference between the drug response
and the placebo response has been
a "dirty little secret," known
to researchers who conduct clinical
trials, FDA reviewers, and a
small group of critics who analyzed the
published data and
reached conclusions similar to that of the authors.
It was not
known to the general public, depressed patients, or even
their
physicians. http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050033r.htm
ALLIANCE
FOR HUMAN RESEARCH
PROTECTION (AHRP)
... paid
lobbying efforts on
behalf of industry are carried out
under the pretext of advocacy in the
public interest.
The
Boston Globe reports that
"little attention has been paid
to smaller nonprofits, especially
patient groups that are largely
funded by the drug industry."
Much as doctors are on the take,
a lot of so-called patient "advocacy"
groups are pimping for
the drug and medical device industry. http://www.ahrp.org/cms/
GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK) has submitted
documents to the
FDA and
other regulatory agencies, contradicting
its
decade long denial that its
antidepressant drug,paroxetine
(Paxil / Seroxat)
increased
the risk of suicidal behavior in
the
company’s controlled clinical trials,. http://www.gsk.com/media/paroxetine_adult.htm
In a letter
to healthcare
professionals this week, GSK
warned about the
increased suicide risk stating: "There
is a
possibility of an increased risk of suicide related
behavior in young adults ages 18-29" -- whether the
drug is
prescribed for depression or for other conditions
not
associated with suicide. http://www.gsk.com/media/paroxetine/adult_hcp
letter.pdf
Despite
the
acknowledged suicide
risk, GSK attempts
to
persuade physicians (in the letter to healthcare
professionals)
to continue
to prescribe their
drug,
offering the company's
faith-based "belief" in the drug's
benefit: "GSK continues to
believe that the overall
risk-benefit of
paroxetine in the treatment
of patients
with MDD and other non-depressive disorders remains
positive…" http://www.gsk.com/media/paroxetine/adult_hcp_letter.pdf
"GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK) and FDA notified healthcare
professionals of
changes to the Clinical Worsening and
Suicide Risk subsection of the
WARNINGS section in the
prescribing Information for Paxil and Paxil CR.
These
labeling changes relate to adult patients, particularly those
who
are younger adults."
DEAR
PHARMACIST SUZY COHEN ADHD DRUGS NOT
A CURE https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/dearsuzyletter.html
By: Suzy
Cohen, a registered pharmacist, syndicated writer
for
the Tribune Media
Services
SOME
OF PSYCHIATRY’S & PSYCHOLOGY’S
RECENTLY
CONVICTED SEX CRIMINALS
PSYCHIATRISTS
& PSYCHOLOGISTS: PROFESSIONAL
RAPISTS, PERVERTS
AND PEDOPHILES PSYCHIATRISTS
WHO MUST REGISTER
AS SEX OFFENDERS http://www.psychcrime.org/rape/index.html
...more
than 100 cases of
psychotherapist sexual activity with
a patient to the State’s
Attorney for prosecution. Florida law
presumes that patients being
treated for mental or emotional
troubles are vulnerable and
specifically forbids psychotherapists
from engaging in sexual activity
with them.
Paxil
Protest Long Overdue by
Tony Zizza My
fellow
Americans,
brace yourself for the first annual Paxil Protest. Sponsored
by
the cutting edge non-profit organization, SSRI Citizen, this long
overdue protest takes place September 26th through September
28th,
2005, at 200 North 16th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This is
one of the many key sites where Paxil's manufacturer
GlaxoSmithKline is
stationed. Paxil is an extremely powerful and
dangerous antidepressant
that has created havoc for millions of
people and their families
worldwide. It's worth noting that Paxil
isn't even allowed to be given
to children under the age of 18 in
GSK's home country of Great Britain. http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0928zizza.html
GPs
under fire for Prozac prescriptions to
children
Around
40,000 children are prescribed anti-depressant medication
when they
should be offered 'talking' therapy first, a Government
watchdog has
warned.
New national guidelines tell doctors not to
prescribe pills as a
'first line' defense against depression. Instead
GPs should offer
three months of 'talking' therapy first, according to
the National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
The
recommendations come after the revelation that half of
children and
teenagers on anti-depressants receive no psychological
support. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_ id=363698&in_page_id=1774
New
Warnings Sought on Antidepressants
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published:
September 12,
2004
For anyone taking an
antidepressant please read
these
facts.
Used appropriately with a true medical reason
they can
be
be
good medicine but
prescribed inappropriately to treat
any and
everything
is not right.
They
must be used
exactly as instructed by the company that
manufactures them.
They
not
only
can harm your body creating disease but flippantly
using them
ages your
skin and other parts of the body, often
dramatically. The
latter
statement is my personal observation
on
what is visibly
happening to people. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/warnsought.html
PsychCrime
- Database
of convicted mental health practitioners
reported to CCHR International
since 1990. It is, by far, an
incomplete list and does not include all
cases reported to law
enforcement agencies or the courts.
Depression
fastest-growing diagnosis, report
says
Nearly 350,000 visits
by young
Canadians to family
physicians
last year resulted in recommendations that they
take antidepressant
drugs that
are not clinically indicated for
people under 20 and that
research suggests
may actually
increase their likelihood of suicide. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/growdiagnosis.html
Study
Advises Against Drugs for Children in Depression
Pediatricians
and family physicians should not prescribe
antidepressants for
depressed children and adolescents
because the drugs barely work and
their side effects are
often significant, Australian researchers have
concluded. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/nodopeforchildren.html
Before
you switch insurance companies make
sure you
are off any and all
anti-depressants!
-
When Amy M. left her
steady job to become a freelance
advertising copywriter,she had no idea
the antidepressant
she took to combat depression would have an
unexpected
side effect. She couldn't get health insurance.
"I
was turned down by Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Kaiser,"
said
the
35-year-old Oakland resident, who has been
taking the antidepressant
Celexa for several years.
An
area woman is suing the maker of Paxil,
an antidepressant,
in
the death of her husband in 2001. LITCHFIELD
-
In
a
lawsuit filed on Thursday
in Litchfield Superior Court,
Erin Hopey, the widow of the late Douglas
Bruce Hopey,
and administer of his estate claims SmithKline Beecham
Corporation,
Kaiser
Study Refutes Notion that young Children
are Over Prescribed Researchers analyzed the medical
and pharmacy
records of
all children
between the ages of 2 and 5 who received care
from Kaiser
Permanente Northwest physicians from January
1997 through
December 1998. Of these 38,664 children,
about one in 300
(three-tenths of 1 percent) had been
prescribed
a psychiatric medication. https://kaiserpapers.com/behavioral/dopertot.html