IS yOUR Mental Health Care just a Marketing Scheme???
“Psychiatrists collect more drug company money than physicians in any other specialties. Times reporters’ findings, discovered Minnesota’s last eight presidents of the Minnesota Psychiatric Society took money from drug-makers. Senator Chuck Grassley, a well known watchdog of the pharmaceutical industry, on the floor of the Senate said, “I am going to report on the actions of one physician to explain how industry payments to medical experts can affect medical practice.” DelBello had been commissioned by AstraZeneca to do a study on the use of their antipsychotic Seroquel, when the results were positive for the drug, the company hired her to give lectures about the treatment. AstraZeneca paid DelBello $100,000 in 2003 and $80,000 in 2004 for various consulting or speaking gigs. And this $180,000 was only income from one drug company; DelBello had also worked with seven other companies. And to add injury to insult, one Doctor witch told reporters he had been convinced to prescribe antipsychotics to children in part because he had attended lectures by a researcher named DelBello. Many of his patients were children who were diagnosed with bipolar disorder, witch is a controversial diagnosis in this age group. [Anybody read Indigo Children?]
The question is: Is Dr. X prescribing a drug because he got a consulting fee or money from a particular organization that’s connected with the production of that drug? Does the public have the right to know whether the physician has a possible interest in PUSHING one drug versus the other because of some financial arrangement? “If that information’s published you’re most likely going to have people act a little more ethically????”
Grassley’s investigation of Massachusetts General Hospital found three CHILD PSYCHIATRISTS –Biederman, Wilens, and Spencer – who had made $4.2 MILLION in combined personal income from drug companies over a seven-year period, but had only disclosed a small fraction to the university as required. Something more insidious was at work than profiteering on the growth of consciousness, those psychiatrists who received the MOST money from companies that marketed antipsychotic drugs like Risperdal wrote three times as many prescriptions of these drugs for children as other doctors.
The more crucial issue was the fact that these psychiatrists were ‘double-dipping,” because they were making millions as hired guns while at the same time receiving taxpayer money from NIH (National Institute of Health) to do publically funded research. NIH has a strict conflict-of-interest policy ….which states that publically funded researchers can only make $10,000 per year, and that these researchers fully disclose these arrangements to their university. NIH does not want this money to influence how you conduct and interpret your studies.
[This blog paraphrased from Carlat’s: Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis, 2010)
How many Millionaire Psychiatrists are there?
Are they just drug reps with an MD?
Last night after reading for an hour I started to feel really high, as in feeling expanded and loopy- drugged out. The O Soma Drop dripped a couple of times and My eyes were dilated to the point I would not walk out of my apartment without my sunglasses on for fear of someone seeing their size and concluding I was taking street drugs. The sutures/seams in my skull were a bit on the hot side, so I oiled them as I do most nights. If I don’t oil them they will really, really hurt the next morning.
Any researchers want to do some real research? How about studying what the chemical composition is of these drops, dripping down my throat? You don't even have to take a blood sample????? How much TRUTH could there be in one little drop?
How many Millionaire Psychiatrists are there?
Do they experience the O Soma Drop phenomenon?
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Sincerely and Graciously,
Ashoka Aurora Ishaya
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