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Police recruit volunteers to binge on drugs-alcohol_ WSJ Tue, 29 Oct 2002 In 1998, The Washington Post reported about the accidental death of a volunteer firefighter who had been recruited by the police to be a test subject whose purpose was to get drunk: “A Lanham man who volunteered to…
Once Misdiagnosed, Writer Teaches Psychiatrists About Treatment – Psychol Today Fri, 27 Jun 2003 An article in Psychology Today is about an incredible story of survival. A teenager misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, then wrongly incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. Mindy Lewis survived for three years of being “drugged and locked away…
For the Sake of Public Safety FDA & NIH Must Be Detatched from Drug Industry Tue, 21 Dec 2004 Daily front page reports about lethal drug effects leave no doubt that we are in the midst of a major health safety and credibility crisis, largely due to a drug development…
October 10, 1997. Chronicle of Higher Education. Panel wrestles with thorny issue of protecting human research by Paulette Walker Campbell. p. 36 Psychiatric patients testify to ethical violations and examples of abuse in experiments at academic health centers. For the second time in nearly 20 years, a federal commission is…
October 29, 2001 FYI Widely disparate perspectives are presented in an article in the Maryland Daily Record re: The Court of Appeals of Maryland decision (Gimes v Kennedy Krieger Institute, Aug 16, 2001). That 6-to-1 landmark decision severely criticized the practice of exposing healthy children to risks of harm in…
MassHealth: Children overwhelmed with Psychiatric Drugs_Globe Sun, 9 Mar 2003 The Boston Globe reports that the top official for health and human services in Massachusetts plans to take action to stem the abusive “haphazard” prescribing of psychiatric drugs for children: “The use of stimulants, antidepressants, and antipsychotics among children has…