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- " Serious incidents of aggression and violence beyond the control of the Code Grey team.( i.e. hospital patient security staff)
- Armed (with a weapon or using an object as a weapon) or unarmed person threatening serious injury to self or others.
- Person armed with a prohibited weapon/s, controlled weapons or dangerous articles who will not voluntary surrender their weapons...
- Hostage Situation
- Hostile Intruders
- Illegal occupancy."
Being privy to three "Code Blacks"... this is what was witnessed. Rapid Response Team at one, Dog Squad at another along with your highway patrolman, police on the local beat and leading constables and Sergeant... How would you respond to such a call " CODE BLACK?"
Whose MAD here the policy makers or the MAD patient? Equating a psychiatric patient as a possible "Hostage situation? Hostile Intruder? Armed with a weapon?Serious incidents of aggression?" Do we really need a CODE BLACK for a Psychiatric Ward? What if the code black was initiated for you; you who entered hospital to seek assistance with your delirium or psychosis?
Whats happened to humanity or is this just another facet of mans inhumanity to man for the sake of humanity? Australia is signatory to the Helsinki Declaration.. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and then there is the Hippocratic... FIRST DO NO HARM.
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Clozapine
A study purporting to analyze mortality rates of 66, 881 schizophrenia patients in Finland (1973 to 2005) was published in the prestigious journal, The Lancet. [Abstract below]
The study has received much media attention because the authors claim—contrary to well documented previous reports about spiraling mortality rates among schizophrenia patients treated between the 1970s and 2000 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]—that the use of the second generation anti-psychotic drugs in Finland was associated with lower mortality rate compared to no drug treatment.
What’s more, the authors claim that Clozaril (clozapine) among all anti psychotics was associated with the lowest number of deaths, and its restricted use should therefore be reassessed for use a first-line treatment. Unless the overall treatment and services provided to schizophrenia patients in Finland is unique and especially protective—which the authors do not suggest—their claimed findings are belied by a consistent body of evidence.
To whit, an eight year study of FDA Med-watch adverse drug reports (between 1998 to 2005) found that Clozapine was linked to 3,277 deaths, making it the third most dangerous prescribed drug in the U.S. Clozapine was also linked to over 4,300 adverse drug events that led to disability or required serious medical intervention. [7]
A critical analysis by psychiatrist, Grace Jackson, MD (below), identifies fatal flaws in the study design and numerous methodological artifacts that introduced bias which minimized the detection of drug-related mortality.
1. To begin with, the claim that “no drug use” resulted in the HIGHEST mortality was misleading inasmuch as the non-drug users were, in fact, NO “anti psychotic naive” patients. The patients assigned to the “No Drug Use” group were simply those individuals who did not use anti-psychotics as outpatients between 1996 and 2006.
Free Garth.
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