Not Just The Va Experiments With Mental Illness

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Columbia University has quietly suspended research at a nationally prominent brain-imaging center and reassigned its top managers after federal investigators found that it had routinely injected mental patients with drugs that contained potentially dangerous impurities.

http://www.msnbc.msn..._new_york_times

"There could be a patient safety issue, for one," said Dr. Barry Siegel, chairman of the radioactive drug research committee at Washington University in St. Louis. "And there could be a scientific validity issue. If you're exposing people to radiation and getting garbage data, then that becomes an ethical problem."

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>>Not Just The Va Experiments With Mental Illness

i just chime in here...i have often wondered how much the VA actually "experiments" with/on patients regarding MH issues versus actually trying to correctly diagnose them and treat them.

just seems to me the VA has a love affair with MH issues for all things, versus other viable diagnosis.

maybe its just me, but i have often wondered that via my own experience with the VA