Sigmund Who? Psychiatrists Writing More Scrips
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From: rpautrey2 on 10 Aug 2008 14:09 Sigmund Who? Psychiatrists Writing More Scrips By Ed Silverman // August 5th, 2008 // 7:56 am Roll over, Freud, and tell Woody Allen the news. Today’s psychiatrists are writing more prescriptions in favor of good, old-fashioned psychotherapy. And this shift from the couch to the prescription pad apparently reflects financial incentives from managed care and a greater number of available meds, according to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The researchers analyzed data from national surveys of office-based psychiatrist visits from 1996 through 2005, and found a significant drop in the number of office-based psychiatrists providing psychotherapy. Just 29 percent of office-based visits to psychiatrists involved psychotherapy in 2004 and 2005, down from 44 percent in 1996 and 1997. The decline coincided with changes in reimbursement, increases in managed care, and growth in the prescription of medications. Visits provided under managed care tended not to include psychotherapy, according to the study, even though various forms of psychotherapy, either alone or in combination with medications, are recommended to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses. “Psychiatrists get more for three, 15-minute medication management visits than for one 45-minute psychotherapy visit,” Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and one of the researchers, tells Reuters. But there is hope for a well-heeled few. “If you have some hard feelings about your childhood and you live in New York and have a lot of money, you can still find psychiatrists who provide long- term psychotherapy.” © 2007- 2008 Newark Morning Ledger Co. All Rights Reserved. http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/08/sigmund-who-psychiatrists-writing-more-scrips/
From: news.chi.sbcglobal.net on 10 Aug 2008 16:59
The more scrips written, , the more scrips needed, an ever revolving cycle that will lead us all to hell. They are damaging, harmful, and inhumane. They send body and mind damage to a friend of the immoral script receiver. The lesson of Columbine High goes unnoticed that the killers and some students were friendly in marajuana group use. Marijuana and anti-depressants alter the mind of the user, and the upsetting images can send the users into unheard of frenzy of feelings that cannot be understood or coped with. Thank our Health care system of the easy buck that is so tiltillating to the psychiatrist, that there is no prospect of any meaningful therapy. Sadder yet, is in the light of this situation the psychiatrist that does offer talk therapy along with anti-depressant leaves him/herself vulnerable to being liked and thought of, causing illness to the psychiatrist in the form of crohns and risks a shorter life due to his generosity of wisdom, if he has any. That is why ALL anti-depressants should be banned along with marijuana, another popular killer. If there is pain, what is wrong with pain medication, like oxycontin which cannot transmit any damage. Get the facts straight and everyone benefits. Never mind the addiction aspect, they are already addicted to the wrong medications that wlll kill others. The pain factor of such volume will also decrease with the banning of anti-depressants. Curious to know if there is a country that is not addicted to medical stimulants. It seems like this is the biggest industry for the world. Easy buck and to hell with everybody. Better to put them on social assistance than let them continue to deal in drugs. Gail Michael "rpautrey2" <rpautrey2(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:27a99ca5-239c-47a5-93cb-33a370539f10(a)k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com... Sigmund Who? Psychiatrists Writing More Scrips By Ed Silverman // August 5th, 2008 // 7:56 am Roll over, Freud, and tell Woody Allen the news. Today�s psychiatrists are writing more prescriptions in favor of good, old-fashioned psychotherapy. And this shift from the couch to the prescription pad apparently reflects financial incentives from managed care and a greater number of available meds, according to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The researchers analyzed data from national surveys of office-based psychiatrist visits from 1996 through 2005, and found a significant drop in the number of office-based psychiatrists providing psychotherapy. Just 29 percent of office-based visits to psychiatrists involved psychotherapy in 2004 and 2005, down from 44 percent in 1996 and 1997. The decline coincided with changes in reimbursement, increases in managed care, and growth in the prescription of medications. Visits provided under managed care tended not to include psychotherapy, according to the study, even though various forms of psychotherapy, either alone or in combination with medications, are recommended to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses. �Psychiatrists get more for three, 15-minute medication management visits than for one 45-minute psychotherapy visit,� Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and one of the researchers, tells Reuters. But there is hope for a well-heeled few. �If you have some hard feelings about your childhood and you live in New York and have a lot of money, you can still find psychiatrists who provide long- term psychotherapy.� � 2007- 2008 Newark Morning Ledger Co. All Rights Reserved. http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/08/sigmund-who-psychiatrists-writing-more-scrips/ |