{"id":45445,"date":"2014-04-09T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=45445"},"modified":"2014-04-09T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T04:36:17","slug":"if-youve-got-a-spare-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/if-youve-got-a-spare-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"if you’ve got a spare minute…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A message from Carl Elliott:<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

In early December, we delivered a petition signed by over 3,500 of you to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, calling for an investigation of the death of Dan Markingson in a University of Minnesota psychiatric research study. That same week, the Faculty Senate at the university also overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for an investigation.<\/p>\n

Yet four months later, we still have seen no results. The president of the university, Eric Kaler, has indicated publicly that any review he commissions will not include an investigation of Dan Markingson’s death. Governor Dayton has not even acknowledged our petition. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, evidence is accumulating that Dan Markingson was not the only patient who died or was seriously injured in psychiatric research studies at the university. Two investigative news reports have appeared with evidence of misconduct involving other patients. A confidential letter has emerged indicating that the Institutional Review Board was aware of ethical problems with psychiatric research at the University in 2009, and that it was concerned enough to request an external investigation. And for over six months, the university has stonewalled our open records requests for reports of deaths and serious injuries in psychiatric research studies. <\/p>\n

You can find more information about these issues at:<\/div>\n
www.danmarkingson.com<\/a><\/div>\n
So we need your help. We are organizing a series of actions beginning this week with a call-in campaign to Governor Mark Dayton and University of Minnesota Board of Regents Chairman Richard Beeson. We are asking you to make a phone call as soon as possible to the offices of Dayton and Beeson and leave a message asking for action. Here are phone numbers [and if you need it, a suggested script for your call.]<\/div>\n

Please make your voice heard. And let us know that you called by leaving a comment at www.danmarkingson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Carl Elliott<\/p>\n

Richard Beeson
Office of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents
Phone: 612-625-6300<\/p>\n

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Gov. Mark Dayton <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Phone 651-201-3437
Toll Free: 800-657-3717<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
[see also the academy itself…<\/a>]. I’ve mused at times about why my radar lands on certain cases in the sea of stories about the misbehavior in psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. Paxil Study 329<\/font><\/strong>; The TMAP related cases<\/font><\/strong>; and this Dan Markingson case<\/font><\/strong> are always on my front burner. Each is a travesty that involves both psychiatrists who ought to know better, pharmaceutical companies manipulating things they ought to keep there noses clear of, and great big cover-up operations that need to see the light of day. But the Dan Markingson case<\/font><\/strong> is on top of the list, though it’s not the one I talk about the most, because it has a champion of its own that I could never equal for patience and single-mindedness, Carl Elliot.<\/div>\n

Dan Markingson died by his own hand, a victim of an illness that dates to antiquity. He became a part of a study he should never have been enrolled in – a study that had no medical indication but was rather an experimercial. He was put on a maintenance<\/em> dose of a blinded medication that wasn’t working. He languished in a treatment facility that did not adjust his treatment to his illness for six months as part of a legal double bind. And not long after hearing that his commitment was to be extended, he killed himself in a bizarre way – consistent with his untreated illness. All of that in a Trial that shouldn’t have been. <\/p>\n

The kind of paranoid psychosis Dan had is a big time illness – it can be a lethal illness. Dan’s lethality was there the day he was admitted. He could have succumbed with the best of treatment, but we’ll never know because he didn’t get it. This may even be a case where, in spite of the dominant view of these medications, he may well have been grossly undermedicated, at least early on. But we don’t know that either. All we know is that he was adjudicated to a treatment he never received. Rather, he became a pawn in a marketing chess game. <\/p>\n

Carl Elliot, Mary Weiss, and Mike Howard have been able to engage the Minnesota faculty and much of the mental health community in keeping this case on the front burner only to be repeatedly blocked by the very people who should be supporting their efforts. If you’ve got a spare minute tomorrow, leave a message or two to support Carl, Mary, and Mike in trying to make this thing go the right way… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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