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Involuntary Commitment – A Psychiatrist’s Dream – A Patient’s Nightmare
Congressman Tim Murphy is the chief sponsor of a bill in the House of Representatives numbered HR 3717 inappropriately titled “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act”. This horrific piece of proposed legislation aims to help the psychiatric profession and drug...
Florida Slides toward Legal Pot and Psychiatric Commitments
Florida medical marijuana just got a boost last week when the Florida House and Senate passed its own medical marijuana bill ahead of the November 2014 ballot initiative vote in which the citizens of Florida will decide if they want medical marijuana to be legal in...
GSK’s Epileptic Seizure Drug Potiga Won’t Cure Alcoholics
A Boston University School of Medicine researcher, Clifford Knapp, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, got some press recently by claiming that Potiga, a GlaxoSmithKline drug used as an anti-convulsant to suppress partial epileptic seizures in patients, might be...
Alternative Treatments for PTSD are Safer
No one will argue that being in the military, especially during deployment is extremely stressful. During times of war, soldiers see and do things that they just can’t forget. Many come home and are not the same as when they left. Injuries, trauma and brain...
History of Schizophrenia Shows Psychiatry is Not a Science
“Is Psychiatry Scientific? “A Letter to a 21st Century Psychiatry Resident” is the title of a lengthy article by Jose de Leon, MD from The University of Kentucky Mental Health Research Center at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, KY published last September. He...
Elder Abuse and Exploitation
According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of elderly abuse cases in 2010 was almost 6 million, most of whom were women, with 77-78 being the median age of the abused. Even though seniors are particularly susceptible to...
ELDER ABUSE – BE CAREFUL OF WHOM YOU TRUST
Unfortunately, as we get older, we begin to notice changes in our body and don’t have the same confidence as we did when we were younger. So, sometimes we call upon others for help. For me, that was a big mistake when I asked my niece to take me to the hospital. You...
Jails and Psychiatric Hospitals – Both Bad for Mentally Ill
Jails and Psychiatric Hospitals – Both Bad for Mentally Ill Practically every paper around the country is reporting the story that more mentally ill people are now found in jails than in psychiatric hospitals and mental health facilities. A recent report from the...
Medical Marijuana – Bad News for Florida
Come the November election, Florida might drift down the hazy medical marijuana trail blazed by California, Washington, Colorado, the District of Columbia and 17 other states. The issue has been positioned as the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative,...
Sandy Hook Shooting Demands Thorough Investigation
It’s been about sixteen months since the tragic Sandy Hook shooting. Following the unnecessary deaths of twenty children, aged six and seven years old, plus six adults, one would think that something would have been done by now to prevent another similar incident. ...
Ft.Hood Shooting – Psychiatrists Can’t Hide Ambien Side Effects
Another shooting incident happened this week at the Army base in Ft. Hood, Texas. A US soldier named Ivan Lopez age34 shot and killed three fellow soldiers and wounded 16 others before killing himself. In early press reports officials revealed that last month Lopez...
Signs of Suicide – A Mental Health Quiz That Fails
The Signs of Suicide® Prevention Program, a supposed “nationally recognized program designed for middle and high school-age students” is being pushed nationally into many state governments. Ironically, it’s about to be introduced into Newtown High School in Newtown,...
Depressed Kids Are Not What You May Think
There is plenty of talk today about children being bullied, not fitting in socially, being assessed at school regularly and having trouble with other life problems. This is so common that children are routinely treated for stress, anxiety and depression. More and...
PCP Laced Marijuana: Creating Psychosis and Psychiatric Commitment
Marijuana laced with PCP is making a dangerous comeback in the US and the psychosis it generates in users is causing an increase in admissions to emergency rooms and psychiatric facilities. PCP (Phencyclidine) was developed in the 1950’s as a surgical anesthetic. Its...
Can Social Networking Use Reveal Mental Health Issues?
Studying social networking habits is the latest approach the mental health community is taking to explore new ways to detect early signs of mental health issues and “intervene” with their usual treatment - a psychiatric drug prescription. One such researcher is Dr....
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