MEDIA
Harold Sleeper – Psychiatrist – Injected Wife with Urine
The Associated Press February 22, 1984 Jury Awards $6.5 Million to Psychiatrist's Ex-Wife Dateline: Oklahoma City A psychiatrist accused of subjecting his ex-wife to bizarre experiments, including injecting her with her own urine, has been ordered by a jury to pay her $6.5 million. Ann C. Sleeper's malpractice suit against Dr. Harold Sleeper, medical director of Willow View Hospital, a local private mental facility, alleged he injected her while treating her for a variety of physical and mental problems. Her attorneys also said Sleeper convinced his wife her severe depression, paranoia and physical problems were due to the foods she [...]
Idaho Examines Top Prescribers
Idaho Statesman Idaho’s Medicaid payments for prescription drugs questioned But the state says Medicaid records don’t prove doctors are overprescribing November 11, 2012 By AUDREY DUTTON Idaho Medicaid Dick Armstrong addresses the State Legislature U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has assumed a role as a taxpayer watchdog, says some Idaho physicians have overprescribed antipsychotic drugs and addictive narcotics such as OxyContin to Medicaid patients. “After an extensive review of prescribing habits of the serial prescribers of pain and mental health drugs in your state, I have concerns about the oversight and enforcement of Medicaid abuse [...]
Albuquerque psychiatrist Edwin Hall – “one of the worst prescribers in New Mexico”
nmpolitics.net Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care, search warrant says By Amy Linn, Searchlight New Mexico October 26, 2018 Psychiatrist Edwin Hall Unlike many doctors, Albuquerque psychiatrist Edwin Bacon Hall, 74, accepted patients on Medicaid and saw them in a timely manner. He often treated foster children, who were sent his way with the approval of their legal guardian, the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD). On at least one occasion in his office, he prescribed drugs while dressed as a clown. But what really drew attention was his habit of handing out pills. “Hall has been [...]
Wisconsin Psychiatrist Karl Strelnick accused of having sex with one patient, being negligent in the death of another and allowing yet one more patient to impregnate a fellow patient
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bice: Gov. Scott Walker criticized by Dems for not being tougher on disgraced psychiatrist By Daniel Bice October 26, 2018 ++ Excerpts ++ Gov. Scott Walker said the buck stopped with him. Back when Walker was the Milwaukee County executive, he said he was ultimately responsible for taking care of the problems at the Mental Health Complex. But Democrats are saying that didn't happen in the case of disgraced psychiatrist Karl Strelnick. During his 20 years with Milwaukee County, Strelnick was accused of having sex with one patient, being negligent in the death of another patient and [...]
Chinese Psychiatrist Yang Yongxin accused of using shock treatment on “patients” with “internet addiction”
South China Morning Post Screams from ‘Room 13’: Are China’s kids being electroshocked for internet ‘addiction’? Distressed boy heard screaming for his mother from mental hospital notorious for controversial treatment Clinic was closed down in 2016 but online video ignites fears it has started up again October 25, 2018 Psychiatrist Yang Yongxin A psychiatric hospital in eastern China is being investigated for restarting a controversial internet addiction treatment after a video in which a boy can be heard screaming for his mother went viral on Weibo. Weibo user “IADSER” claimed to have shot the video from outside the hospital [...]
Karl Strelnick
The Associated Press Woman Who Accused Therapist of Sexual Abuse Wins $$1,135,000 February 24, 1989 A woman who testified she was sexually abused by her psychiatrist has been awarded $$1,135,000 by a jury. The 42-year-old woman said Dr. Karl Strelnick had sexual contact with her repeatedly during a two-year period while she was receiving psychiatric treatment. The woman's attorney, Daniel Rottier, said she was satisfied with the Dane County Circuit Court verdict Thursday. "She feels an appropriate message was sent to the counseling community," he said. Strelnick said Friday he would not comment on the verdict. He gave up his [...]
Karuna Anand, Chief of Psychiatry, California Dept of Corrections – Busted down to mail clerk, then fired
Sacramento Bee She blew the whistle on the state prison system. She says it cost her job Dr. Karuna Anand, former chief of psychiatry at a California Department of Corrections facility in Stockton, alleges she was fired because she was a whistleblower. By José Luis Villegas Covering crime, police and courts in the Sacramento region From a $389,000 job to the mailroom. Prison psychiatrist says whistleblowing cost her job BY SAM STANTON October 25, 2018 Psychiatrist Karuna Anand Before California’s top prison psychiatrist accused his colleagues this month of providing misleading information about the medical care inmates are [...]
Greek psychiatrists implicated in racket
ekathimerini.com Racket probe points to medical certificate scam By Yiannis Souliotis A lawyer and at least two psychiatrists have been implicated in a racket that allegedly provided convicts with medical certificates that allowed them to petition for a reduced sentence, an investigation into a drug-related case has found. Evidence of the racket emerged during the investigation of 17 suspects who were arrested in April on suspicion of peddling drugs on the Athens clubbing scene. It revealed contacts between the suspects and two psychiatrists who served as expert witnesses at the Athens Court of First Instance, as well as a lawyer. [...]
Nasreen Kader – NY Drug Dealer Psychiatrist Charged with Drug Crimes
NewsDay Central Islip psychiatrist charged in prescription drug sting, state attorney general says By Candice Ruud September 23, 2014 Psychiatrist Nasreen Kader A psychiatrist from Central Islip faces multiple counts of illegally prescribing Xanax, Klonopin and Ritalin to undercover agents posing as patients wanting the drugs for "illegitimate purposes," the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The investigation into Nasreen Kader, 48, started after two families complained that she was overprescribing the drugs to their relatives, her patients. Kader is charged with 15 counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, a felony, and she faces [...]
Robert Dragert, New Jersey Psychiatrist, suspended, fined $30K – “overprescribed opioid medications with reckless abandon”
The Trentonian Princeton doctor overprescribes opioids, must pay $30K fine and serve 2-year suspension By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman October 18, 2018 Psychiatrist Robert Dragert TRENTON — Dr. Robert J. Dragert had the hallmarks of a great career: Elite certifications, upward mobility and no shortage of patients. But the good doctor turned bad, overprescribing opioid medications with reckless abandon and contributing to the national public health emergency, forcing the state to punish him. Dragert has been suspended from medical practice and ordered to pay a $30,000 civil penalty for failing to properly manage the opioid dependence of his patients. The Princeton [...]