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\"The<\/a>If you don’t know about the Dan Markingson<\/font> Case, it’s worth looking into. The icon on the left sidebar takes you to a petition to the Governor of Minnesota requesting an complete investigation. Carl Elliott has pressed for an investigation with little success and has now set up a petition to the Minnesota Governor asking for a full accounting. Take a look and sign it if this case looks as bad to you as it does to me [it will]. [Note: I had to use the Internet Explorer to sign it]. Here’s what I wrote when I first read about the case three years ago. The references mentioned in the Brody piece have the whole story:<\/div>\n
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This post is about a tragic and outrageous story. It’s about a young man who had a Schizophrenic Break after college. He was involuntarily hospitalized after becoming homicidal. He ended up voluntarily enrolling in a drug study comparing three atypical antipsychotics [even though he had been declared legally incompetent]. His condition deteriorated, but the medicine remained unchanged. In spite of desperate warnings to his doctors by his mother, he finally committed suicide. There are few things more ominous than such a psychotic episode in the life of a young adult. In spite of the toxicity of the drugs used to treat this condition, it is something of a modern miracle that such an illness can be treated. But it requires careful monitoring, often changing drugs or dosage depending on the response. To simply place a person on an arbitrary dose of a randomly assigned drug would be unheard of in a rational clinical setting. And to enroll a person as flagrantly psychotic and dangerous as this young man in such a study is simply folly [any Psychiatry Resident could tell you that after a month working on the wards]. Dr. Bernard Carroll, who alerted me to this article, labels irresponsible studies like this one experimercials<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, to highlight the fact that they’re not driven by a scientific quest, but rather by a marketing strategy.
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