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Does Rehab Work as a Treatment for Alcoholism and Other Addictions? Singer Amy Winehouse's fame and infamy have now been forever linked to one word: rehab. She is only one of many recent high-profile cases in which attempts at rehabilitation from substance abuse failed. Amidst strange public outbursts earlier this year, actor Charlie Sheen asserted that it was not rehab, but rather he, himself, that had been his secret weapon against abusing cocaine and booze.
And celebrities are not the only ones with untreated substance abuse problems. More than 20 million Americans ages 12 and older needed—but were not receiving—treatment as of 2007, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The cause of the 27-year-old singer's July 23 death is still unknown. Initial autopsy results were inconclusive, and toxicology tests will likely take at least two weeks. But the Grammy Award–winner had a recent history replete with physical health problems, psychological difficulties, and drug and alcohol abuse. Theresa Brown (nurse essays) The Payson Roundup / Doctor indicted by Gila grand jury for theft. Flacking for Big Pharma: an article by Harriet Washington | The American Scholar. Article - Summer 2011 Print Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research By Harriet Washington “Drug Makers Cut Out Goodies for Doctors” and “Drugmakers Pulling Plug on Free Pens, Mugs & Pads” read headlines in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Health Blog at the end of 2008 after, in a very public act of contrition, 38 members of the pharmaceutical industry vowed to cease bestowing on prescribing physicians goodies such as pens, mugs, and other tchotchkes branded with their names.
How can this be? And yet, “All journals are bought—or at least cleverly used—by the pharmaceutical industry,” says Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, who now sits on the board of Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit open-access group publishing scientific journals that eschew corporate financing and are freely available online to the public. Comparing their drug to a placebo. DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power, Summary of the Critique of the DSM, offered by Zur Institute for Psychologists, MFTs, SWs, Nurses and Counselors.
Introduction Because most undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses relatively uncritically present the DSM as an objective scientific document, this summary focuses exclusively on the critical view. It neither provides a complete analysis of psychiatric diagnosis nor denies that the DSM, if used cautiously and appropriately, can be useful, nor does it advocate against psychiatric diagnostic.
The primary goal of this web page is to promote critical thinking in psychology and psychiatry by presenting a controversial critique of psychiatric diagnosis. The following summary was inspired by the work of both Allen Frances, M.D., chair of the DSM-IV task force, Dr. The DSM has undergone a sociopolitical, economically driven evolution since its inception in 1952 when it emerged as a diagnostic tool for physicians who framed it in the medical model.
Overview of Critique of the DSM-5 This is the saddest moment in my 45-year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. When Speaking In Filipino Becomes A Crime - THE FIL-AM PERSPECTIVE. By Gel Santos Relos "Balitang America" reported on the case of four Filipino nurses who were fired from their jobs at a Baltimore hospital for allegedly speaking Tagalog during their lunch break. They insisted their rights were violated after Bon Secours Hospital terminated them. The Bon Secours Hospital imposed its English-only language rule last November, which covered only the emergency department, where the Filipino nurses worked. Some hospitals impose this rule to protect patients. However, these Kababayans said they did not get any warning and felt they had been singled out. One of them said the termination was a bigger surprise because she worked at the human resources department as a secretary who is not at all involved with patient care.
Migrant Heritage Commission Executive Director Atty. These nurses believe this sets a dangerous precedent for all foreign health care staff in US hospitals. This case is a classic example of one of the struggles faced by Filipinos in America. Nurse Power!(TM) the Power, Passion and Pride of Nursing by Donna Cardillo. When Being Good Means Looking Bad : AJN The American Journal of Nursing. News Desk: Cowboys and Pit Crews. This afternoon, Atul Gawande delivered this year’s commencement address at Harvard Medical School. In his book “The Youngest Science,” the great physician-writer Lewis Thomas described his internship at Boston City Hospital in pre-penicillin 1937. Hospital work, he observed, was mainly custodial.
“If being in a hospital bed made a difference,” he said, “it was mostly the difference produced by warmth, shelter, and food, and attentive, friendly care, and the matchless skill of the nurses in providing these things. Whether you survived or not depended on the natural history of the disease itself. Medicine made little or no difference.” That didn’t stop the interns from being, as he put it, “frantically busy.” The distance medicine has travelled in the couple of generations since is almost unfathomable for us today. People worldwide want and deserve the benefits of your capabilities. The rapid growth in medicine’s capacities is not just a difference in degree but a difference in kind.