MEDIA
Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions
New York Times By ALAN SCHWARZ February 2, 2013 Psych Charles Parker “I do feel partially responsible for what happened to this kid.” VIRGINIA BEACH — Every morning on her way to work, Kathy Fee holds her breath as she drives past the squat brick building that houses Dominion Psychiatric Associates. It was there that her son, Richard, visited a doctor and received prescriptions for Adderall, an amphetamine-based medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It was in the parking lot that she insisted to Richard that he did not have A.D.H.D., not as a child and not now as a [...]
Charles Curran, Mass. Psychiatrist, Prolific Prescriber, Says Psych Drugs “Tickle the Brain”
ProPublica Fall River doctor among top tranquilizer prescribers in US By Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones June 10, 2015 Psychiatrist Charles Curran Doctors around the nation wrote nearly 40 million prescriptions for tranquilizers such as Ativan and Xanax to Medicare patients in 2013, the first year its prescription drug program covered the medications, according to a review of federal data. Among the top prescribers in the nation is a Fall River psychiatrist, Dr. Claude Curran, who wrote more than 11,700 prescriptions for the drugs, including refills -- ranking him behind only four other doctors, all from Puerto Rico. [...]
James Sutherland Watt, Sausalito Psychiatrist, arrested after authorities found a large quantity of LSD on his yacht
Independent Press Telegram (Long Beach, California) Court Action Faces Yank Smuggler VICTORIA, BC. (UPI) November 2, 1968 A California psychiatrist, arrested after authorities found a large quantity of LSD and methedrine about his yacht, appeared in Magistrate’s Court Friday on smuggling charges. Dr. James Sutherland Watt of Sausalito entered no plea to a charge of “unlawfully importing goods into Canada.” He was released in his own recognizance until Monday. Watt was arrested Oct. 24 when he docked his Seattle-registered yacht Navita for repairs after being blown off course during a storm near Cape Flattery. A royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman [...]
Psychiatrist Robert Dragert, New Jersey, Suspended – accused of “indiscriminately” prescribing addictive drugs
Courier-Post License suspended for doctor at Medford practice By Jim Walsh November 1, 2018 Prescription Drugs Psychiatrist Robert Dragert TRENTON – A state board has suspended the license of a psychiatrist accused of "indiscriminately" prescribing addictive drugs at a Burlington County practice. Dr. Robert J. Dragert received a two-year suspension and was barred from solo practice, the state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement Thursday. He was accused of prescribing drugs “without appropriate screening and/or medical justification” while working one day a week as a private practitioner in Medford. Dragert agreed to the suspension under a consent order [...]
Perth Psychiatrist Aaron Voon
WA psychiatrist who filmed young boys urinating banned from practising for three years By Heather McNeill November 8, 2018 Perth psychiatrist Aaron Voon A prominent Perth child psychiatrist who secretly filmed young boys' genitals as they urinated in public toilets will be able to return to his profession in three years. Dr Aaron Voon, the former director of Cockburn Central's Successful Development and Therapy Centre, narrowly avoided a jail term in September 2017, over eight child pornography-related charges. A District Court of Western Australia judge heard at the time that Voon had an obsession with urination. He received a [...]
Kevin Denny – NY Psychiatrist in Hot Water for Diagnosing ADHD
Psychiatrist Kevin Denny Kevin M Denny Address: 1001 11th Street, Niagara Falls, NY 14301 License Number: 202080 License Type: MD Year of Birth: 1943 Effective Date: 09/15/2014 Action: Censure and reprimand and probation for three years. Misconduct Description: The physician asserted he could not successfully defend against at least one of the charges of negligence on more than one occasion and failing to maintain accurate patient records. License Restrictions: During the period of probation the physician may only practice medicine; when his practice is being monitored by a physician board certified in an appropriate specialty NEW YORK STATE [...]
Why have Adam Lanza’s records been sealed?
The News-Times Points toward medication as contributor to violence February 25, 2013 The News-Times recently ran an article quoting a psychologist who said the shooting by Adam Lanza was unpredictable and that some 75 percent of these mass shootings have been committed by children in school. Psychiatrist David Healy of London, England A better and more complete picture was painted by top psychiatrist Dr. David Healy of London, England, in a recent interview in New York, when Dr. Healy stated ... that psychotropic drugs are behind school massacres, and that "when 9 out of 10 cases in both the [...]
Daisy DeMaranville
Los Angeles Times D.A. DECIDES NOT TO CHARGE 4 PSYCHIATRISTS; MOONLIGHTING: PROSECUTORS ARE UNABLE TO PROVE THE STATE HOSPITAL DOCTORS WERE DOUBLE DIPPING BY WORKING AT COUNTY FACILITIES. By TINA DAUNT April 11, 1992 The Ventura County district attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges against four Camarillo State Hospital psychiatrists who were accused of moonlighting at county psychiatric clinics while they were also being paid to work at the state facility. After an 11-month investigation, Deputy Dist. Atty. James P. Cloninger determined that there was no way to prove that psychiatrists were double dipping by working at [...]
John Rosen
The Miami Herald April 3, 1983 CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIST GIVES UP HIS LICENSE ROSEN A FIGURE IN '79 BROWARD SLAYING ACCUSED OF 'BEATING DEVIL' OUT OF PATIENTS By TIM PALLESEN Dr. John Rosen, a psychiatrist living in Boca Raton, has surrendered his only medical license to avoid a public hearing into allegations that he beat and sexually abused patients from some of America's wealthiest families. The Pennsylvania Board of Medical Licensure last week ended Rosen's medical practice and a 36-year controversy into his aggressive approach to psychiatry. Although Rosen never held a Florida medical license, he has wintered since 1947 in [...]
Gary R. Donovan
The Boston Globe State panel rules on doctors' cases; NEW ENGLAND NEWS BRIEFS September 26, 1992 The state Board of Registration in Medicine has taken action on the licenses of two doctors, one of whom has been charged with sexual misconduct. A probation agreement was made with Dr. Gary R. Donovan, a psychiatrist living in Rhode Island, after it was determined that he violated controlled substance laws. The agreement will allow Donovan, who has been out of practice for three years, to practice with supervision. Dr. John Wayne Matthews, a psychiatrist now living in Seattle, had his license revoked after [...]