PSYCH DRUGS
William Braden, Rhode Island Psychiatrist, gets 3 years probation for improper drug prescribing
Providence Journal R.I. psychiatrist disciplined for improperly prescribing drugs By G. Wayne Miller May 29, 2018 Psychiatrist William Braden PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline has placed Dr. William Braden, a psychiatrist who practiced at Butler Hospital, on three years’ probation for improperly prescribing medications. This is the second time in five years that the Department of Health has reprimanded Braden. In the current case, the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline after an investigation also ordered Braden to “cease prescribing opioids, specifically schedule II and III opioids” with the exception of buprenorphine, used [...]
Melborne Williams, Kentucky Psychiatrist, under investigation – 12 of his patients died of overdoses.
WKYT Doctor's suspension launching review of overdose cases By Andy Cunningham July 1, 2012 Psychiatrist Melborn Williams The investigation into a Danville doctor whose medical license was suspended last week continues after authorities say 12 of his patients died of overdoses. This has promoted other law enforcement agencies to review their overdose cases, to figure out if they were also patients of Dr. Melborne Williams a licensed psychiatrist. After learning of Williams suspension, Lincoln County Coroner Farris Marcum tells 27 NEWSFIRST he started reviewing several drug overdose cases in his county, including the recent death of Crystal Hager. "To [...]
Luis Byrne, Florida Psychiatrist, duped by addicts into giving them drugs – gets one year of probation, during which he may not prescribe any narcotic drugs and a $ 1,000 fine
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) April 4, 1987 Three doctors get reprimands from state By Carol Gentry +++ Excerpt Psychiatrist Luis Byrne The Tampa psychiatrists who received reprimands were Drs. Cesar L. Ruiz and Luis O. Byrne. Ruiz was accused of submitting bills to Medicaid for patient visits he didn't make. After Medicaid caught the discrepancy, Ruiz was sent through a pretrial intervention program rather than prosecuted in court, according to DPR records. Ruiz's attorney, James Alfonso of Tampa, said Ruiz's secretary mistakenly billed for visits to St. Joseph's Hospital for 2 1/2 years after Ruiz stopped making Sunday [...]
Delaware Psych Gregory Villabona – prosecutors are seeking to revoke his license for prescribing drugs to an addict who later died by heroin overdose
The News Journal 'Egregious misconduct' could cost Dover psychiatrist Villabona his license Christina Jedra May 29, 2018 Psychiatrist Gregory VillaBona Delaware prosecutors are seeking to revoke the professional licenses of a Dover psychiatrist who they allege prescribed controlled substances to an addict who later died by heroin overdose, traded medical treatment for guns and is "unable to practice medicine safely, professionally or ethically." Gregory Villabona, whose license has been on and off probation for 15 years, could lose his licenses to practice medicine and prescribe controlled substances. On Monday, Villabona attended the first of several administrative hearings that [...]
David Drew Pinsky, CNN psychiatrist “Dr. Drew” got $275K From Drug Company
CNN Headline News host Dr. Drew Pinsky has come under fire for allegedly taking payments from pharmaceutical company Glaxo to talk up the pharmaceutical company’s anti-depressant drug, Wellbutrin, without revealing he was being paid by the company. Fox News Feds: Dr. Drew got $275K from pharmaceutical company to promote anti-depressant's sex effects, report says By Hollie McKay July 05, 2012 Psychiatry Professor Drew Pinsky The Wall Street Journal reports that Pinksy – a board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist – was included in a complaint filed by the U.S. government in federal court last October against the pharmaceutical company. [...]
Edward H. Williams, Alienist, One of the Founders of the AMA, convicted of drug charges (November 18, 1934)
Alienist* - former term for psychiatrist SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FAMED DOCTOR FACES PRISON Medical Society Founder, Alienist* Convicted in Drug Charge November 18, 1934 Los Angeles, (UPI) Psychiatrist Edward H. Williams Dr. Edward H. Williams, noted psychiatrist and one of the founders of the American Medical association, today faced a maximum sentence of five years in a federal penitentiary following his conviction on charges of violation of the Harrison narcotic act. A jury in federal court convicted the noted alienist on one of the counts contained in an indictment growing out of asserted prescriptions for drugs. Dr. F.T. Cary [...]
Walter Exon, Tulsa Wannabe Psychiatrist “I do everything a psychiatrist does” – license revoked – accused of over-prescribing drugs
newson6.com Tulsa Doctor's Medical License Revoked May 15, 2018 By Lori Fullbright Wannabe Psychiatrist Walter-Exon TULSA, Oklahoma - The state medical board has revoked the license of a Tulsa doctor. Doctor Walter Exon is accused of over-prescribing medicine and poor record keeping. Exon says the state board has left his 1,100 patients in a terrible bind. A note on the door of Dr. Exon's practice says he's no longer able to treat patients and encourages them to call the state licensing board, but the state board says the reason he's closed at all is because he's over-prescribing patients. Exon [...]
Phillip Bird, Aussie Psychiatrist, accused of wrongly drugging patients who suffered catastrophic consquences
Sunshine Coast Daily 'Drugs turned patients to monsters': Doctor faces misconduct by JESSICA GREWAL January 21, 2017 Psychiatrist Philip Bird A RESPECTED psychiatrist with an exclusive private practice in the heart of the Sunshine Coast stands accused of wrongly diagnosing and drugging patients who suffered catastrophic consequences. Amid allegations he was prescribing potentially toxic doses of the speed-like drug dex-amphetamine, widely used on hyperactive children, the Australian Medical Board is pursuing Dr Phillip Bird for alleged professional misconduct - namely favouring a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder rather than treating a patient's primary mental illness. A series of [...]
Christopher Rowland, Massachusetts Psychiatrist – sentenced to home confinement – prescribed drugs to addicts – one died of an overdose
The Boston Globe Psychiatrist gets 1-year sentence By Judy Rakowsky November 22, 1996 Psychiatrist Christopher Rowland A Jamaica Plain psychiatrist was sentenced to a year's home confinement yesterday after admitting he prescribed addictive medication to drug-dependent patients, one of whom died of an overdose of heroin and tranquilizers within days of filling his last prescription. Christopher V. Rowland, 62, pleaded guilty in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham to writing illegal prescriptions and also agreed to forfeit his medical license. But relatives of James Romano, who had asked the Board of Registration in Medicine to stop Rowland from writing him [...]
UK PSYCHIATRIST DAVID BALDWIN CATCHES HELL FOR “DANGEROUS CLAIM” OF “WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS DISAPPEARING WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF STOPPING ANTIDEPRESSANTS”
The Herald (Glasgow) Anger over 'dangerous claims' by psychiatrists By Helen McArdle March 12, 2018 Psychiatrist David Baldwin MENTAL health experts have accused leading psychiatrists of making a "potentially dangerous" claim that most patients' withdrawal symptoms have disappeared within two weeks of stopping antidepressants. A letter signed by dozens of psychiatrists, academics and patients, including in Scotland, has called on the president and the chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to issue an urgent correction. They said the goal of their complaint "is to correct a potentially dangerous misleading public statement". It comes after Professor Wendy Burn, [...]