Tighter Rules Sought for Anti-Psychotic Drug Use in Illinois Nursing Homes
This story appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
CHICAGO -- Health advocates are calling for tough new rules on the use of anti-psychoti … more…
Drugmaker Paid Psychiatrist Nearly $500,000 to Promote Antipsychotic, Despite Doubts About Research
This story was co-published with the Chicago Tribune.
Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dile … more…
Dr. Reinstein: One Psychiatrist, Many Prescriptions
No psychiatrist in Illinois – or Texas, Florida and California, for that matter – has come close to Dr. Michael Reinstein in prescri … more…
In Chicago’s Nursing Homes, a Psychiatrist Delivers High-Risk Meds, Cut-Rate Care
This story was co-published with the Chicago Tribune.
Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patien … more…
A Secret E-Mail Argument Among Psychologists About Torture
Earlier this week we published a story examining the psychology profession's tortured relationship with the Bush administration's Wa … more…
Tortured Profession: Psychologists Warned of Abusive Interrogations, Then Helped Craft Them
Update: May 7, 2009 5:45 p.m.
A version of this story was also published in Salon.
Psychologists versed in the military's Surv … more…
Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There
This post has been updated.
Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden was fond of saying that when it came to handling high-value ter … more…
U.S. Medical Personnel and Interrogations: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?
This week's posting of a confidential International Committee of the Red Cross report (PDF) about the treatment of 14 "high value det … more…
April 08, 2009
Army Psychologist Cites Pressure to Avoid PTSD Diagnoses Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin, Salon, April 08, 2009
April 07, 2009
Red Cross Report Outlines Medical Workers’ Role in Torture Scott Shane, New York Times, April 07, 2009
Senator Probes Financing of Mental Health Advocacy Group Nicole Gaouette, Bloomberg, April 07, 2009
Repeated Drug Errors Found at NJ Hospital Jean Mikle, Asbury Park Press, April 07, 2009
April 03, 2009
Industry-Tied Psychiatrists Wrote Clinical Guidelines Carey Goldberg, Boston Globe, April 03, 2009
March 20, 2009
Harvard Doc Told Drugmaker Studies Would Benefit It Gardiner Harris, New York Times, March 20, 2009
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