Psychiatry

Nelson discusses bills as legislature winds down
Star Community Newspapers
Medicaid Fraud: SB 8 enhances the state's ability to detect and prevent Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse by establishing a unit at the Health and Human Services Commission to identify anomalies and red flags, as well as confirming the Office of ...

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Special report: Dirty medicine
Healthcare Packaging
Katherine Eban's epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans. By Katherine Eban ... His boss, Dr. Rajinder Kumar, Ranbaxy's head of research and development, had ...

Buckley receives American Psychiatric Association commendation - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert (press release)
"Dr. Buckley is a highly distinguished scientist and educator in mental health and his service to the field over the past several decades has been outstanding," Jeste said. Buckley, who chaired the MCG Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior for a ...

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Anesthesiology News
Life in a Fix: Confessions of an Addicted Physician—Part 3
Anesthesiology News
My lawyer did not understand the charge “Medicaid fraud” and kept calling it “medicated fraud,” which, considering that I was narcotized during the commission of the crime, was painfully accurate. I had to continually correct him. The attorney said ...

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Psychiatric treatment angers PM's advisers
Herald Sun
FORCED restraint of psychiatric patients is rife despite a promise to limit the practice, says a national agency that advises the prime minister on mental health issues. The widespread use of seclusion and restraint is a symptom of a poor system, says ...

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County welfare fraud unit to grow by one
Niagara Gazette
Kristen M. Neubauer who said she is not comfortable with a welfare fraud office with just one person. ... Both residents, a man accused of a non-violent felony property crime, and a woman accused of burglary under two different names, were found not ...

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Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual
lareviewofbooks
Greenberg is deeply skeptical of psychiatry's claim “that psychological suffering is best understood as medical illness.” Taylor, on the other hand, regards Freud as a fraud, disdains the notion that mental illness has any meaning, or has its roots in ...

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New Jersey Gay Activists Backpedaling on Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act
Christian Post
If passed, this legislation would take away the rights of young people with unwanted same-sex attractions (SSA) to seek counseling from licensed mental health practitioners in New Jersey to overcome homosexual feelings. The bill is being dubbed the ...

Patrick Hruby
Sports On Earth
It was early last year, and the New York University neuropsychologist had just received an email from National Institutes of Health neurologist Russ Lonser, thanking Barr and other experts for reviewing a series of brain injury research grant proposals ...

Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and ...
Jackson Free Press
An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive. .... Chicago psychiatrist ...

Study: Long-term ADHD Medications Decrease Drug Efficacy by Increasing ...
Healthline
One of the critics of the study is actually one of the most outspoken critics of ADHD in general—Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes 'Patients' Out of Normal Children and former medical adviser to an anti-psychiatry ...

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I-team: Caring for mental health in Louisiana
WBXH
In 2010, the hospital opened a mental health emergency room where St. Germain was the head nurse. "We do have an increase for mental health in our area, in the Baton Rouge area. After Katrina, a lot of that population from more south Louisiana, the New ...

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Economics and Armchair Psychology
Center for Research on Globalization
Results on the mental health of patients were scanty at best. Some contend that Freud set back the study of psychology and psychiatry “by something like fifty years or more”, and that “Freud's method is not capable of yielding objective data about ...

Medill Reports: Chicago
Insurance companies delay psych patients' hospital admittance, study shows
Medill Reports: Chicago
“Borderline” mental health patients – those that aren't deemed suicidal or homicidal - are the most likely to be sidelined with longer wait times for hospital admission in Chicago and other areas. “With these patients, the danger is not as clear cut ...

The Guardian
'Recessions can hurt, but austerity kills'
The Guardian
We're now seeing polarisation across the UK in mental-health issues." He cites, also, the dire impact on homelessness – falling in Britain until 2010 – of government cuts to social housing budgets, and the human tragedies triggered by the fitness-for ...

Dirty medicine
CNN (blog)
Indeed, the FDA -- charged with protecting the safety and health of Americans -- went even further. Despite the agency's finding of fraud and misconduct, it granted Ranbaxy lucrative rights to sell new generic drugs. In the most high-profile example, ...

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Welfare fraud unit to grow
Tonawanda News
Both residents, a man accused of a non-violent felony property crime, and a woman accused of burglary under two different names, were found not competent to stand trial and were ordered into treatment at a state-run psychiatric hospital this past fall ...

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Ladwig delivers State of the County speech - myracinecounty
My Racine County
Last year this County Board established a fraud ordinance that results in a citation for individuals found guilty of public assistance fraud. To date, 41 ... “The SAIL Program (Stabilization, Assessment, Information, and Linkage) provides 24-hour ...

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Medicare drug program lacks oversight; seniors,...
The Phoenix
An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive. .... Chicago psychiatrist ...

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Weekly Washington healthcare update
Lexology (registration)
The grants are for 51 research projects over three years, and include studies of care for kidney disease, cancers, obesity, asthma, diabetes and mental health conditions. The awards are part of PCORI's second cycle of primary research funding, which ...

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