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One Million American Children Starting Kindergarten on Psych Drugs
PsychSearch One Million American Children Starting Kindergarten on Psych Drugs Colin Taufer Imagine one million toddlers suffering psychiatric drug-caused aggression or anxiety or depression or suicide or cardiac arrest or headaches -- all before they start kindergarten. We’ve all experienced first-hand the exuberance and energy of a young child as they elbow their way through life in an effort to better understand all that is around them, to snatch up everything knowable from the world. “She, or he, is, indisputably, the most ravenous, and most successful, learning machine yet devised in the universe,” is how author Chip Walter describes the [...]
Mohamad Och, Worcester psychiatrist, sentenced
Mohamad Och PRESS RELEASE Worcester Psychiatrist Sentenced for Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Thursday, July 31, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Defendant prescribed combinations of highly addictive benzodiazepines and stimulants BOSTON – A Worcester psychiatrist was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally prescribing controlled substances. Mohamad Och, 69, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman to four years of probation and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine. In November 2023, Och was convicted following an 11-day jury trial of three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance. Och [...]
Vijay Gaikwad, Wigan Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Vijay Gaikwad itvNEWS Former Wigan psychiatrist 'abused position' to sexual assault three patients --Excerpt A psychiatrist who "abused his position of trust" to abuse three patients he was supposed to be caring for has been jailed. Former doctor, Vijay Gaikwad, inappropriately touched the women between 2019 and 2020 and telling them he needed to carry out a physical examination - when there was no medical need for him to do so... The 44-year-old, from Lowton, Wigan, denied all of the allegations but was found guilty of several counts of sexual assault at Bolton Crown Court on Friday, 25 July. He [...]
Mohd Azfar Malik, St. Louis psychiatrist, sentencing scheduled
Mohd Azfar Malik Press Release United States Reaches $501,556 Civil Settlement Resolving Allegations of False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs Tuesday, July 22, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Drake on Tuesday announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and a Missouri psychiatrist have reached a $501,556 civil settlement that will resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations. The settlement resolves allegations that from Jan. 1, 2019, through May 31, 2024, Dr. Mohd Azfar Malik falsely indicated to both Medicare and Missouri [...]
Muhammad Saeed, Tucson psychiatrist, convicted fugitive
Muhammad Saeed DEA - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Attorney General Mayes Announces Conviction of Tucson Psychiatrist for Sexual Assault, Sexual Abuse, and Fraud July 14, 2025 For Immediate Release Contact: Joshua Boyer Phone Number: 571-362-0582 TUCSON, Ariz — Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that a Pima County Superior Court has reached a guilty verdict on all counts in the trial of 57-year-old Muhammad Saeed, M.D., a former Tucson Psychiatrist, who practiced in Arizona from 2004-2020. Dr. Saeed was convicted on June 19, 2025, of one count of sexual assault, thirty counts of sexual abuse, and three counts of [...]
Marc Adida, French Psychiatrist, convicted of raping patients
Marc Adida ICI Twelve years in prison for the former psychiatrist at Sainte-Marguerite Hospital convicted of raping female patients By Damien Triomphe April 4, 2025 -- Excerpt Twelve years in prison and a permanent ban from practicing. Marc Adida, the former psychiatrist at Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille, was found guilty this Friday of rape and sexual assault against female patients. The court took into account the impairment of judgment. The trial of Marc Adida, a former psychiatrist at Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille, ended this Friday, April 4, before the Bouches-du-Rhône Criminal Court in Aix-en-Provence. The public prosecutor had requested 18 [...]
Rashmi Shashikumar, India psychiatrist, stole newborn
The Times of India Psychiatrist gets 10 yrs in jail for kidnap, sale of newborn --Excerpt Bengaluru: A city court recently held a 36-year-old psychiatrist guilty of stealing a newborn boy and selling him for Rs 14.5 lakh in 2020 and sentenced her to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. Judge CB Santosh also fined convict Rashmi Shashikumar, a resident of Nagarbhavi, Rs 1 lakh. Rashmi, who was out on bail and was present in the court when the orders were passed on Feb 19, was taken into custody and sent to Bengaluru Central prison. The case dates back to [...]
Oleh Druz, Ukraine’s top army psychiatrist, arrested
Oleh Druz The Times Ukrainian army psychiatrist held on $1m corruption charge Oleh Druz may be suspected of taking bribes from draft dodgers to declare them unfit for service By Marc Bennetts January 22, 2025 -- Excerpt The Ukrainian army’s top psychiatrist has been arrested on suspicion of corruption as Kyiv tries to crack down on officials taking bribes to issue false exemptions from military service. Oleh Druz was responsible for determining whether people were mentally fit to serve in the armed forces. He was detained during a raid by the SBU security service at one of his properties. [...]
Henri Brunner, Strasbourg psychiatrist, struck off
Google translation Henri Brunner ICI Strasbourg: Expert psychiatrist Henri Brunner struck off by the Medical Council By Sarah Saltiel-Ragot January 10, 2025 -- Excerpt The expert psychiatrist Henri Brunner was the subject of seven complaints, accused of "rushed" examinations, "humiliating" remarks, a lack of impartiality, and breaches of professional confidentiality. After initially sanctioning him, the Medical Council ultimately decided to strike him off the register. The decision by the Medical Council was highly anticipated and was made public this Friday, January 10th: Dr. Henri Brunner has finally been struck off the register. This decision comes after two previous sanctions against [...]
Psychiatry’s War Against the United States Military
PsychSearch Psychiatry’s War Against the United States Military Colin Taufer Today tens of thousands of American soldiers are stationed in the Middle East, taking the fight to our enemies so our enemies don’t bring terror to the United States. These brave fighting men and women have put themselves in harm’s way at the front lines of combat. But the greater threat to their survival is not the crazed terrorist or plotting insurgent in front of them but the sinister psychiatrist behind them. Between 2005 and 2011, according to the Department of Defense, military psychiatrists increased the number of psychoactive drug [...]
Rahim Shafa, Lexington psychiatrist, sentenced
Rahim Shafa PRESS RELEASE Lexington Doctor Sentenced for Engaging in International Money Laundering Scheme and Importing Illegal and Misbranded Drugs Tuesday, December 17, 2024 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Defendant falsified documents to obtain drugs from Hong Kong that are not FDA-approved BOSTON – A Lexington, Mass. doctor was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for an international money laundering scheme involving importing illegal, misbranded drugs. Rahim Shafa, 66, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman to three years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Shafa was [...]
Ceri Evans, Otega Trained Psychiatrist, fails in bid for secrecy
Ceri Evans Otago Daily Times High-flyer's bid for name suppression fails By Rob Kidd December 17, 2024 -- Excerpt An Otago-trained psychiatrist-to-the-stars, who failed to have a 40-year-old driving conviction quashed, has failed in his bid for secrecy. Former All White Dr Ceri Evans has forged a career as an internationally renowned high-performance consultant, plying his trade with the All Blacks, English Premier League football club Arsenal, an NBA franchise in the United States and Australian professional sport teams... On July 16, 1984, Evans was charged with careless driving and appeared in the Ashburton District Court. He denied the [...]
Hisbay Ali, Las Vegas Psychiatrist, sex with a patient
Hisbay Ali Las Vegas Review Journal Emergency action suspends license of Las Vegas psychiatrist By Mary Hynes November 4, 2024 -- Excerpt In an unusual move, a Nevada medical board immediately suspended the license of a Las Vegas psychiatrist for behavior it says risks the health and safety of the public. In October, an investigative committee of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners issued an order of summary suspension of the license of Dr. Hisbay Ali. The order states that Ali had initiated a sexual relationship with a patient and illegally prescribed a controlled substance to a second patient. [...]
Santos Eduardo Manzanares
Santos Eduardo Manzanares Las perversas manipulaciones del psiquiatra acusado de violar y manosear a sus pacientes Los ataques atribuidos a Santos Manzanares, que practicaba una terapia no convencional de “evolución sexual”, ocurrieron entre 2019 y comienzos de la pandemia. La causa en su contra está a cargo de la fiscal Mónica Cuñarro, que pidió su elevación a juicio Federico Fahsbender Por Federico Fahsbender 05 Sep, 2024 08:47 a.m. EST Guardar Santos Manzanares, el acusado Santos Manzanares, el acusado Psicoanalista y psiquiatra freudiano y lacaniano, autor de un libro sobre “líderes éticos-creativos” y creador, según él mismo, de la teoría de [...]
Colin Milliken, Irish Psychiatrist, shocked by patient mistreatment
Colin Milliken BBC Ex-Muckamore psychiatrist 'horrified' by allegations By Lyndsey Telford September 23, 2024 A former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at Muckamore Abbey Hospital was “absolutely horrified” by allegations of abuse of patients, an inquiry has heard. Dr Colin Milliken described his “shock, anger and despair” at the revelations, but said he had never been aware of any poor treatment or abuse of patients. He told a public inquiry he was “heartbroken” by the allegations, which emerged in 2017. He said some of the patients said to be affected had been under his direct care, but he could [...]
Sean Carlysle Prabhu, Windsor psychiatrist
Sean Carlysle Prabhu Windsor psychiatrist suspended, accused of sexually abusing patient By Trevor Wilhelm September 11, 2024 -- Excerpt A Windsor psychiatrist’s licence has been suspended amid accusations he sexually abused a patient then tried to sabotage the ensuing investigation, including posing as the victim in an effort to have the complaint withdrawn. Dr. Sean Carlysle Prabhu is also set to face a disciplinary tribunal following the investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. “Between approximately December 2022 and December 2023, Dr. Prabhu engaged in sexual abuse of a patient and/or disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct [...]
Santos Eduardo Manzanares
Psychiatrist accused of sexual abuse is asked to go to trial CE Noticias Financieras English September 9, 2024 Monday The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Santos Eduardo Manzanares was accused of sexually abusing three women as part of his professional practice. The prosecutor investigating the case requested the elevation to trial at the end of last month. "In all cases there was a relationship of dependence, authority or power that put the perpetrator in a privileged position with respect to the victims," says the prosecutor. Mónica Cuñarro, National Prosecutor for Criminal and Correctional Matters, head of Prosecutor's Office No. 16, considered in [...]
Raymond Rushden, WV Psychiatrist, accused
Raymond Rushden West Virginia Record Logan County woman says psychiatrist sexually harassed her By Chris Dickerson September 6, 2024 -- EXCERPT LOGAN – A Logan County woman says a doctor who was treating her for psychiatric issues sexually harassed her. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, filed her complaint in Logan Circuit Court against Dr. Raymond Rushden and Logan-Mingo Area Mental Health Inc. doing business as Mountain Laurel Integrated Healthcare. According to the complaint, the plaintiff received psychiatric care from Rushden at the Mountain Laurel facility through 2002 and part of 2023. Rushden had been treating her for several [...]
Abdollah Assad, Reno Psychiatrist, allegedly had sex with a patient
Abdollah Assad Las Vegas Review Journal Medical board complaint: Psychiatrist had sex with patient after suicide attempt By Mary Hynes August 29, 2024 -- Excerpt A Nevada medical board committee has filed a complaint against a Reno psychiatrist alleging that he had sex with a patient who had just attempted suicide instead of taking her to a hospital or calling police. The investigative committee of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners filed the complaint on Aug. 14 against Dr. Abdollah Assad, alleging that he violated the state’s Medical Practice Act. The complaint states that Assad, licensed in Nevada [...]
Johannes Scheepers
Brisbane psychiatrist charged with rape Export Citation Whitsunday News Online August 18, 2024 By Nicola McNamara A registered psychiatrist has faced court after being charged with rape in a Brisbane suburb earlier this year. Johannes Christiaan Ernst Scheepers, 70, faced Brisbane Arrest Court on Monday. The Warner resident stands charged with rape and sexual assault, both alleged to have occurred in 2024. Dr Scheepers, who was born in South Africa, has been registered as a medical practitioner in Australia since 2002, according to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. There are currently no specific conditions on his registration. At the [...]
Jason Stamper, Pikeville Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Jason Stamper PRESS RELEASE Pikeville Doctor Sentenced for Illegally Prescribing Amphetamines Monday, July 15, 2024 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Kentucky PIKEVILLE, Ky. – A Pikeville doctor, Dr. Jason Stamper, 52, was sentenced on Monday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to 32 months for illegally prescribing amphetamines. According to his plea agreement, between April 15, 2022, and September 27, 2022, law enforcement made six undercover patient visits to Stamper’s clinic. At each of those visits, Stamper prescribed Ritalin and Adderall to the undercover officer, without a legitimate medical purpose. Stamper performed no medical examinations, [...]
David Brody
Psychiatrist arrested in federal probe Marin Independent Journal (California) June 14, 2024 Friday By Cameron Macdonald A Marin County psychiatrist who is an executive at a health company was arrested Thursday on allegations he helped orchestrate a $100 million medication fraud scheme, federal authorities said. Dr. David Brody, clinical president of Done Health, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in San Francisco following his arrest in San Rafael. He pleaded not guilty to federal charges such as conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler authorized Brody [...]
David Brody, Marin County Psychiatrist, Arrested
David Brody Marin Independent Journal Marin psychiatrist arrested in federal drug fraud investigation By Cameron MacDonald June 13, 2024 -- Excerpt A Marin County psychiatrist who is an executive at a health company was arrested Thursday on allegations he helped orchestrate a $100 million medication fraud scheme, federal authorities said. Dr. David Brody, clinical president of Done Health, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in San Francisco following his arrest in San Rafael. He pleaded not guilty to federal charges such as conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice. U.S. [...]
Natalia Wilson, Drayton, Oxfordshire Psychiatrist, Struck Off
Natalia Wilson Daily Mail Female prison psychiatrist who faked four character references to get a job is struck off after attacking lawyer prosecuting her at her medical tribunal claiming he used 'discriminatory' language By Emily Jane Davies June 12, 2024 -- Excerpt A female prison psychiatrist who faked four character references in a bid to get a job has been struck off - after she accused the lawyer prosecuting her of being 'discriminatory'. Consultant doctor Natalia Wilson, 53, turned on David Birrell and suggested he was being sexist towards women after he politely asked her to stop interrupting him during [...]
Gordon Robinson
Law360 Legal News Psychiatrist Can't Ax Verdict Over ADHD Drug Death By Jonathan Capriel June 11, 2024 A Missouri Court of Appeals panel's opinion affirmed the lower court's handling of the trial and the jury instructions, which Gateway Psychiatric Group LLC and Dr. Gordon Robinson had argued contained "inconsistent alternative theories of negligence, contained more than ultimate facts, and misdirected, misled, and confused the jury." The medical practice and Robinson challenged several of the lower court's decisions, including the admission of the death certificate of the patient, referred to as K.P., and the discussion of damages for aggravating circumstances during [...]