Exposing the Monsters: PsychRights whistleblower lawsuit against psychiatrists unsealed: Monsters Named
Linda
Defendents listed
January 26, 11:22 AMHuman Rights ExaminerDeborah Dupre'
Attorney Jim Gottstein, PsychRights Director
A major Medicaid Fraud lawsuit by Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
(PsychRights®) against psychiatrists, their employers, pharmacies,
state officials, and a medical education-publishing company for their
roles in fraudulent claims to Medicaid to drug mainly disadvantaged
children and youth was unsealed, revealing a long list of defendants.
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit,
tax exempt 501(c)(3) public interest law firm whose mission is to
mount a strategic legal campaign against horrors of forced
psychiatric drugging and electroshock in the U.S. akin to what
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP mounted in the 40's and 50's on behalf
of African American civil rights.
The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic
mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet
extremely harmful drugs according to PsychRights.
"The massive psychiatric drugging of America's children, particularly
poor, disadvantaged children & youth through Medicaid and in foster
care is an unfolding public health catastrophe of massive
proportions," states attorney Jim Gottstien, PsychRights director.
Defendants
The defendants in this case are:
* Osamu H. Matsutani, M.D.
* William Hogan, Commissioner Of the Alaska Department Of Health And
Social Services
* Tammy Sandoval, Director Of The Alaska Office Of Children's,
Services
* Steve McComb, Director Of The Alaska Division Of Juvenile Justice
* William Streur, Director Of The Alaska Division Of Health Care
Services
* Juneau Youth Services, Inc.
* Providence Health & Services,
* Elizabeth Baisi, M.D.
* Ruth Dukoff, M.D.
* Charter North Star Behavioral Health System
* Kerry Ozer, M.D.
* Claudia Phillips, M.D.
* Southcentral Foundation
* Sheila Clark, M.D.
* Hugh Starks, M.D.
* Lina Judith Bautista, M.D.
* Heidi F. Lopez-Coonjohn, M.D.
* Robert D. Schults, M.D.
* Mark H. Stauffer, M.D.
* Ronald A. Martino, M.D.
* Irvin Rothrock, M.D.
* Jan Kiele, M.D.
* Alternatives Community Mental Health Services, D/B/A Denali Family
Services
* Anchorage Community Mental Health Services
* Lucy Curtis, M.D.
* Fairbanks Psychiatric And Neurologic Clinic, Pc
* Peninsula Community Health Services Of Alaska, Inc.
* Bartlett Regional Hospital Foundation, Inc.
* Thomson Reuters (Healthcare), Inc.
* Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
* Safeway, Inc.
* Fred Meyer Stores, Inc.
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani, et al., United States
District Court, District of Alaska, Case No. 3:09-cv-0080-TMB.
The lawsuit, filed on April 27, 2009 and required to be kept under
seal (secret) until now, is brought under the federal False Claims
Act, which authorizes private parties to bring fraud actions on behalf
of the Government.
These cases are also called "whistleblower suits" or "qui tam,"
actions, and those who file them are entitled to a share in the
recovery, if any.
Each offending prescription carries a minimum penalty of $5,500.
The Complaint walks through the lack of science supporting the
practice and the methods used by the pharmaceutical industry to induce
psychiatrists to improperly prescribe these drugs.
"Even though the drug companies have been using these methods to
induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the
psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts,
not drug company marketing," said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, "the
uncritical acceptance of pharmaceutical company hype represents a
massive betrayal of trust by the psychiatrists prescribing these drugs
to children and youth."
PsychRights has developed a streamlined model Qui Tam Complaint for
use around the country. (See, PsychRights Launches Campaign Against
Medicaid Fraud With Model Lawsuit, July 27, 2009)
The model Qui Tam Complaint is drafted for former foster youth to
bring the lawsuits and receive the whistleblower's share of the
recoverey, but anyone with knowledge of specific offending
prescriptions, such as parents and mental health workers, can bring
these suits.
Last fall, Mr. Gottstein gave talks at two national conferences, the
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), and
the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
(ICSPP), where he presented how to bring and conduct these cases. Mr.
Gottstein is also giving a presentation in New York City, February
2nd, following oral argument in Lilly v. Gottstein.
Mr. Gottstein indicates a number of these cases are percolating around
the country. In one that is not as far along as some others, Ted
Chabasinski, a Berkeley, California, lawyer, is seeking a former
foster youth as a client to bring such a lawsuit in the Bay Area. Any
former foster youth in the Bay Area who was given psychiatric drugs
within the last 6 years can call Mr. Chabasinski at (510) 843-6372 to
talk to him about bringing such a case.
"Foster children are singled out for psychiatric drugging because they
and their foster parents have almost no legal protections and no way
they can refuse these damaging drugs," says Mr. Chabasinski, who as a
foster child, was electroshocked at the age of six as part of an
experiment involving hundreds of foster children.
While PsychRights and Mr. Chabasinski are not bringing these cases for
the money, such cases represent a tremendous financial opportunity for
attorneys to do well by doing good.
"These are about as open and shut as cases can get," said Mr.
Gottstein.
"It is Medicaid fraud to cause or submit prescriptions to Medicaid for
reimbursement if they are not for a medically accepted indication. End
of story."
PsychRights has developed a Medically Accepted Indications Chart
showing what is allowable for common psychiatric drugs. Every other
use of these drugs in children and youth and submitted to Medicaid is
fraudulent. http://psychrights.org/Education/ModelQuiTam/PediatricPsychotropicMedicallyAcceptedIndications.pdf
PsychRights conservatively estimates that at least half of
psychotropic drug prescriptions to children and youth submitted to
Medicaid are not for medically accepted indications and therefore
fraudulent.
Photo courtesy of PsychRights
Escape_the_Cult_Now
groups (SCI, MFO, CCHR, NarCONon and 100's more
scientology garbage by scientology abusers...they seek the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
for fake rehabs, preying on the mentally ill for their $$$$$ and then making
them better off "dead than unable." It's prison time for Linda, Jan and all
they socks. No matter what how you name your fake human rights front
groups...it spells $cientology.
> http://whyaretheydead.info/
>
>
> "I hold the irresponsible management of Scientology missions to blame for
> auditing badly, incompletely, idiotically. For taking inept, vulnerable
> individuals off the street and putting them in positions of determining
> the
> psychological condition of an individual.
>
> scientology 's front groups, CCHR, MFO, SCI (many more) also participate)
> in
> the abuse of the mentally ill.
>
Also many front groups in medicine, universities, dentistry, eye care,
business, and government.
RGrannus
> PsychRights whistleblower lawsuit against psychiatrists unsealed:
> Defendents listed
>
> January 26, 11:22 AMHuman Rights ExaminerDeborah Dupre'
>
> PsychRights conservatively estimates that at least half of
> psychotropic drug prescriptions to children and youth submitted to
> Medicaid are not for medically accepted indications and therefore
> fraudulent.
Thanks for the update. This happened to a family member of mine. He
was being treated for depression but went to a peer support group
meeting at a local community clinic. The head of the clinic talked
him into going to a local hospital, where he was involuntarily
committed without even being examined by a psychiatrist (they go by
what "screeners" report). It ended up costing him about $20,000.
Investigations found that some screeners and doctors were getting
bounties from psychiatry hospitals and wards for directing patients to
them. The hospitals get paid one way or another--through insurance,
by the patient himself if not insured (and they charge the uninsured
much more), or by charity care paid by the government for impoverished
patients. The psychiatrists just approves whatever the screener
recommends since that's also in their own interest.
Here are excerpts: "U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder of Colorado
held hearings investigating the practices of psychiatric hospitals in
the United States. Her committee's summary: "Our investigation has
found that thousands of adolescents, children, and adults have been
hospitalized for psychiatric treatment they didn't need; that
hospitals hire bounty hunters to kidnap patients...that psychiatrists
are being pressured by the hospitals to increase profit; that
hospitals 'infiltrate' schools by paying kickbacks to school
counselors who deliver students; that bonuses are paid to hospital
employees, including psychiatrists, for keeping the hospital beds
filled.
"The supposed experts responsible for these "diagnoses" are usually
biased in favor of commitment because of their personal economic
concerns or their affiliation with the psychiatric "hospital" or ward
where the "patient" is or will be confined. Psychiatric "hospitals",
like all businesses, need customers. In the case of psychiatric
"hospitals" [or wards], they need patients. They not only want
patients, they need them to stay in business. ..Keeping all those
psychiatric beds filled is critical, and administrators are
aggressively ensuring that they will be. Some facilities even resort
to paying employees and others bonuses of $500 to $1,000 per
referral. An administrator at a psychiatric "hospital" told me
competition between psychiatric hospitals is "cut throat". Combine
this intense competition with America's poorly written involuntary
commitment laws and judges who refuse to impose protection from
unwarranted commitment that bona-fide due process requires, and the
result is a lot of people being deprived of liberty and suffering
psychiatric stigma unjustifiably."
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/unjustif.htm
http://reason.com/archives/2002/05/01/ill-treated
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=26154
http://psychrights.org/states/Maine/InvoluntaryCommitmentbyAliciaCurtis.htm
"Some psychiatric hospitals made a practice of admitting adolescents
in distress, using the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The federal
government finally intervened, charging the hospitals with fraud and
assessing fines of millions of dollars. Many of these children did
not have bipolar disorder at all, but were acting inappropriately
because of stresses in their families, with their friends, and at
school." --Edward Drummond, M.D., Associate Medical Director at
Seacoast Mental Health Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in _The
Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs_ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York, 2000, pages 13-14.) Dr. Drummond graduated from Tufts
University School of Medicine and was trained in psychiatry at Harvard
University."
http://www.cchr.org/take_action/report_psychiatric_abuse.html
"Vulnerable people who have sought help from psychiatrists and
psychologists have been falsely diagnosed and forced to undergo
unwanted and often harmful psychiatric methods."
While in theory, a patient is entitled to a hearing before a judge
before longer term involuntary commitment, in practice this provides
little protection.
1. In most states, you can be held for 3 days just on the
recommendation
of a "screener," who need not even be a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists
just rubber stamp the screener's recommendation.
2. You can be and many people are involuntarily committed if they are
considered a potential danger to themselves, i.e., if they've had
thoughts of suicide. But thoughts of suicide are a common symptom of
depression; indeed, it's one of the standard DSM-IV diagnostic
criteria
for clinical depression.
3. For the reasons noted above, it's in the financial interest of
both
screeners and psychiatrists to commit people.
4. It often 3 weeks or longer to get even a preliminary hearing before
a
judge, during which time the person remains committed and the bills
pile up.
5. Judges usually just follow the recommendation of the
psychiatrist/screener, who have a vested interest in commitment.
Unless
you can afford to hire your own lawyer and psychiatrist, you may stay
committed.
6. The person is often released before a hearing can be held, which
is
often weeks. That still amounts to tens of thousands of dollars in
hospital and other medical bills. If you don't have insurance, they
can
and will charge you for it.
Linda
You're welcome.
http://psychrights.org/Education/ModelQuiTam/NYCFeb2010.htm
On February 2, 2010, from 4 pm to 8 pm, after the oral argument in Jim
Gottstein's appeal of Eli Lilly v. Gottstein, Mr. Gottstein will give
a presentation on PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against
Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth at:
Community Access
2 Washington Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY, 10004
ATM, I lack the time necessary to make a thoughtful reply to your
article.
However, the 65 yo anti-trust exemptions for the gangsters in white
coats create the financial incentive for these "Assembly Line
Involuntary Commitments For Profit" which you touch upon.
(FYI, the shoddy goods and services of the gangsters in white coats
fetch peanuts in the free marketplace, hence, their forming criminal
cartels to bribe US Elected Officials to enact anti-trust exemptions
for the gangsters in white coats.)
Repeal of the 65 yo anti-trust exemptions for gangsters in white coats
will go a long way towards removing the financial incentive for these
'Assembly Line Involuntary Commitments For Profit"..you touch upon.
Escape_the_Cult_Now
Practice of Medicine and MURDER
"Linda" <indomi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jan 27, 8:08 am, RGrannus <rgran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 5:57 pm, Linda <indomitab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The defendants in this case are: LINDA and her SOCKS
>
>
The CCHR (Citizen's Commision for Human Rights-- the initials are made to
sound like another org., to confuse people, is a SCIENTOLOGY FRONT GROUP
whose mission is to destroy, by any means possible, all in the mental health
field so $cientology can take over the field and eliminate those they find
better of Dead than Unable...but first they will take all their money.
business, and government. JUST ask LINDA and her scientology front group
CCHR.