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By Ann Tracy on February 21, 2010
OREM, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Police say a Utah
County man drugged a woman he met at a bar and raped her.
Police say on
Friday February 12, Orem officers responded to a report of a rape that
had been reported from the night before.
Police say the victim
is a 24-year-old woman from southwest Orem.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abc4, Agonists, Alleged Victim, antidepressants, Antipsychotic Medication, Atypical Antipsychotics, Bipolar, County Man, Dr. Tracy, Drugawareness, Jason Christensen, Man Woman, Old Woman, Orem Utah, Provo Police, seroquel, Serotonin Receptors, Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Snri Antidepressants, Story Man, Utah County |
By Ann Tracy on February 4, 2010
Pay for the blue pill that works, not the red one that
doesn’t. That’s the president’s simple prescription for improving American
health care, one that relies on government panels and committees to set
guidelines for doctors and patients alike.
At least, that’s the
theory.
The theory met messy reality last week when the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force recommended that women in their 40s shouldn’t get
mammograms. But the secretary of health and human services — who, incidentally,
oversees this panel — thinks women probably should. And the American Cancer
Society believes that they definitely should; major private insurance companies,
for the record, will continue to fund the tests.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged American Health Care, Antidepressant, antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Patients, Contributor, discontinuation, Dr David Gratzer, Dr. Tracy, Government Panels, Initial Fears, Placebo, Prozac, Simple Truth, Ssri Antidepressants, SSRIs, Theor, Third Person, Truth Of The Matter |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
As soon as Arylane Ala walked into her house that day
in 2007, she saw blood a red pool stretching from the coffee table to the
fireplace. Then she saw her youngest son face down on the floor, an antique
rifle by his side.
She didn’t approach his body, she said: “I didn’t
want to see his face … his expression.”
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Ala, anti-depressant, antidepressants, Binges, Bipolar, Coffee Table, Courier Journal, Emergency Protective Order, Fiancee, Fort Knox, Helicopters, iraq, lithium, Military Veterans, Nursing School, Nutritional Supplements, September 13, Soldier, SSRI, SUICIDE, Ten Broeck, Ungar, Workouts |
By Ann Tracy on October 8, 2009
As soon as Arylane Ala walked into her house that day
in 2007, she saw blood a red pool stretching from the coffee table to the
fireplace. Then she saw her youngest son face down on the floor, an antique
rifle by his side.
She didn’t approach his body, she said: “I didn’t
want to see his face … his expression.”
Four tumultuous years after
serving in the Middle East with the Kentucky Air National Guard, 25-year-old
Bryan Ala of Louisville took his life part of a rising number of military
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Ala, anti-depressant, antidepressants, Binges, Bipolar, Coffee Table, Courier Journal, Emergency Protective Order, Fiancee, Fort Knox, Helicopters, iraq, lithium, Military Veterans, Nursing School, Nutritional Supplements, September 13, SSRI, SUICIDE, Ten Broeck, Ungar, Workouts |
By Ann Tracy on September 20, 2009
My first psychiatric diagnosis was major depression, and my first psychiatric medication was Prozac. It was prescribed by my GP, not by a psychiatrist. I had a one-week follow-up visit, and then I was turned loose. It takes hindsight to see that what I thought was “normal” behavior in response to Prozac was in fact at least mild hypomania. Someone even called me “the poster child for Prozac.” This was in 1994, and I wasn’t diagnosed with bipolar disorder until 1999, after another antidepressant did a similar thing.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Abrupt Withdrawal, Anti-depressants, antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar Depression, Cause Of Bipolar Disorder, Continuous Series, Depressant, Diagnosis Of Bipolar Disorder, Dr. Tracy, Drugawareness, Hindsight, Hypomania, major depression, Poster Child, Prozac, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Psychiatric Medication, Seizures, Stimulant, Woman |
By Ann Tracy on August 17, 2009
Paragraphs four & five read: ” He said: ‘He was a very lovely chap, but had a problem with bipolar disorder. He had hit a low and decided it was enough.” “‘He’d been ok for years, but recently he’d had a turn for the worse. I think something may have gone wrong with his medication [...]
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Amp, Aristocrat, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Black Hole, Chap, Clue, Death Victim, Downward Spiral, Exeter, Lifeless Body, Maida Hill, Manic Depression, Marquess Of Queensberry, Milo, Misery, News Story, Paragraphs, Paramedics, Tower Block |
By Ann Tracy on August 3, 2009
Chemically inducing Bipolar Disorder to create a whole new customer base for the new and high priced atypical antipsychotics is not the least bit difficult when you start patients out on stimulant medications, like Ritalin and antidepressants. That is especially true when given to a young patient with yet growing and developing, and therefore more vulnerable, brain!
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged abilify, ADHD, antidepressants, Bipolar, Depakote, Depression, diagnose, disorder, geodon, lamictal, misdiagnose, Paxil, risperdal, seroquel, topamax, zyprexa |
By Ann Tracy on August 3, 2009
“Anti-depressants didn’t help the manic side of Munn’s bipolar disorder. At times his thoughts raced. He didn’t sleep. He had grandiose ideas like how to fix the entire mental health system in the state of Montana.”
“And he believed he could do anything he wanted.”
“’I felt rules didn’t apply to me. That would be grandiosity,’ he said. ‘But they do. And that’s accepting that you have a mental illness’.”
Posted in Legal Cases, Recent Cases Blog | Tagged abilify, ADHD, antidepressants, Bipolar, Depakote, Depression, diagnose, disorder, geodon, lamictal, mania, misdiagnose, Paxil, psychosis, risperdal, RITALIN, seroquel, topamax, zyprexa |
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