Karen Dineen Wagner: TMAP: NARSAD

In Sept the WSJ Health blog had:

Sen Grassley Blasts Psychiatrist For Failure To Disclose Industry Funding

Sen Grassley's detractors have tasked him with grandstanding. Dr Wagner isn't part of the Millionaire Club. She weighs in at a bantam $150,000.

Dr Wagner was part of TMAP, (AHRP) and its health wrecking, national economy busting, chutes and ladders.

"Dr. Wagner served on the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) panel whose treatment recommendations are not borne out by the scientific evidence. TMAP was financed by the manufacturers of psychotropic drugs - in states that have adopted TMAP as their guideline, its list of recommended drugs is mandated by state mental health agencies. [5]

Dr. Wagner were hired by the state of Texas to make recommendations to the state mental health department for the treatment of depressed children. They recommended using the very drugs they knew to have serious risks without a demonstrable benefit greater than a sugar pill for children-as first line treatment in state funded facilities. Both Dr. Emslie's and Dr. Wagner's TMAP recommendations are not based on scientific evidence - but rather the consensus of the panel who was financed by psychotropic drug manufacturers."

Allan Jones Full Whistleblower Report

psychrights.org/last item. If you've BTDT, ..... look again/pg 11

"These drug makers all manufacture TMAP depression medications, including Paxil, Prozac, Remeron, Wellbutron and Effexor.

The panel also included Dr Karen Dineen Wagner. In the Aug. 27 Journal of the American Medical Association, Wagner reported on a Pfizer-funded study conducted by Wagner and colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Wagner reported that the Pfizer SSRI Zoloft was safe, effective and well tolerated in children.

Increadibly, this claim was made in the wake of UK bans on the use of Paxil and Effexor (SSRI’s) in children, when both the FDA and the British Committee on Safety in Medicines announced that they were re-examining all SSRI clinical trial data.

An article by Fred Gardner in Drugnews, published on September 3, 2003 critiques the report and offers the following information about Dr.Wagner:

"Dr Wagner has received research support from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Glaxo Smith Kline, Organon, Pfizer, and Wyeth-Ayerst; has served as a National Institute of Mental Health consultant to Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cyberonics, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Glaxo Smith Kline, Novartis, Otsuka, Janssen, Pfizer,and UCB Pharma; and has participated in speaker's bureaus for Abbott, Eli Lilly, Glaxo Smith Kline, Forest Laboratories, Pfizer, and Novartis.”

The article states:
“What we have here is a case study in how pharmaceutical companies respond to warnings that their products cause harm. Earlier this summer British health authorities advised against treating children and teenagers with Paxil because it triggers suicidal thinking and actual suicide attempts. Zoloft (which is Pfizer's name for a chemical called "sertraline") affects the same receptor system, and is evidently just as dangerous.”

BaumHedlund Law: 2005. In 2002 the BBC covered mounting UK awareness of increased suicide risk from SSRIs.

"The broadcaster received unprecedented response: over 65,000 telephone calls and 1,500 e-mails, largely from SSRI users who had suffered adverse reactions to the drugs."

Check psychsearch.net's listing of Lawsuits which TMAP with its State mandated 1st line Antipsychotics 'Treatments' have resulted in.

Now: does Anyone, ..... Still want to believe that Senator Grassley's interest in Dr Wagner is mere "grandstanding"?

Karen Dineen Wagner, NARSAD Scientific Council: where 300/60 = 1 in 4 (backstory 2007 Annual Report/pg 4/lower right)

NARSAD can hand out over $11 Million a year, for 22 years, to tag and bag "diseased" 1st Amendment Violators, ..... but they can't afford $2.99 for calculator batteries.

Correction:

That report has 1 in Every 4 Adults as having a 'Diagnosable Mental Illness'. Their calculator batteries are fine. It's the batteries in their Moral calculator which are extruding flowers of chemical corruption.