But, I’m Not Important! asked:


http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/72700.html
The News Tribune Drugs might breed violence attacks on staff rise at Western State Hospital M. ALEXANDER OTTO
May 28th, 2007

Violence has been a growing problem at Western State Hospital for years. If present trends continue, one in four of the Lakewood mental hospital’s more than 1,700 workers can expect to be assaulted by a patient in 2007, according to the state Department of Labor and Industries.

For years, hospital administrators have blamed the violence on familiarcauses: not enough staff members, not enough money and increased societal violence that leads to the admission of more-violent patients. But they don’t have the data to back up those assertions.

A News Tribune analysis of drug-prescribing trends at Western since 1999 finds another possible factor: Western is giving more patients psychiatric drugs with side effects that can include extreme agitation and aggression.
The drugs include newer antidepressants and newer anti-psychotics dubbed atypical anti-psychotics.

The newer drugs, which are expensive compared with older, generic
alternatives, have been heavily promoted at the hospital by the
pharmaceutical companies that make them. Sales representatives for those companies have logged about 1,200 visits to Western since late 2003,
when administrators began tracking their activity.

Concerned about their influence on prescribing patterns, the hospital
in March banned all drug company representatives from visiting the campus to meet with doctors.
The link between changes in drug use at Western and recent increases in
violence “is very plausible,” said Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, a Harvard-trained
psychiatrist and an expert on the side effects of anti-psychotic drugs who
is on the faculty at Eastern University, outside Philadelphia.

“There is a significant relationship between restlessness and agitation
induced by medicine and the propensity for violence,” Kruszewski said.

Those assumptions, which have dominated internal and state agency
violencestudies at Western for more than a decade, do not hold up under
analysis. Since 1999, the staffing ratio of ward workers to patients has improved from 1.18 workers for every patient to 1.34 workers per patient in 2006.

Funding has increased about 50 percent overall - going from $106
million in 1999 to $156 million in 2007 - and has kept pace with medical
inflation.
Hospital administrators don’t offerstatistical evidence that society has
become more violent, leading to a more violent patient population. Meanwhile, violent crime in the areas from which Western draws its patients
has dropped significantly, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics.

What does correspond with the increase in violence is the roughly 35
percent increase since 1999 in the use of drugs that a hospital pharmacy handbook and drug experts say are more likely than similar medications to induce agitation and aggression, The News Tribune analysis indicates. By the end of 2006, there was roughly one order for these drugs for every patient at
Western.

NEW DRUGS, MORE DRUGS

Drug therapy has been the mainstay of psychiatric treatment for decades, and
it long has been known that while some medications can make patients drowsy,
others can cause extreme agitation and a tendency to lash out. This restlessness can be physical, mental or both,
This is not all this article says, but perhaps one may want to start paying attention to what is really going on?

HILLERMAN

Kathy M asked:


anyone know how to get an electric heater to stay on without the automactic timer keeps turning it off? It just has a turn dial on it with smaller to bigger dots on it to decrease and increase heat. I bought the heater from a garage sale. It heats good but I want to turn off the automactic timer so it can stay on and the heater only have 1 button and thats the decrease and increase dial. Its cold here today where I live! brrrrrr!

UONG

mithraelite asked:


I lost my job about 2 months ago and have been looking for a new one ever since with no luck. My first child was born today and I willing to do anything. Would anyone be interested in hiring me? I have worked in security and customer service. I can use a computer pretty well and I’m studying to become a computer programmer. I would really appreciate any form of help. I’m down to my last idea.

ODONNELL

Louise G asked:


i’m seriously having a hard time!!!

i can’t find the songs Forever and I Will Sing ……

Lakewood version is sooper hard to find!

please help me…

WYZARD

S J asked:


Are there any churchs in Georgia, specifically around Atlanta, that preach the same thing as Joel Osteen…Is this a certain type of religion to look up? How do we find a church to attend that are similar to his philosophy?

OSIER

cleopatrais42 asked:


on may 30th brother was arrested and booked into jail.
he did not pay june rent as he is in jail.
he asked a friend to stay at his apt to keep it secure.
in mid june the landlord showed up, kicked out the person staying there and changed the locks. she knows brother is in jail.
july still in jail she allows his ex girlfriend and some guy to come into apt and remove some of the belongings. she begins clean up process removing possessions and getting apt ready to rent.
we live next door. she asked to put brothers belongings (what is left) a chair, kitchen items, a footon mattress, his clothes, an organ, arcade game and misc junk into our storage for him. otherwise she is going to put it out in the street. so we put it into our storage. on july 27.
today july 29th brother gets out of jail comes home to find his stuff is gone and someone is moving into his apt.
he was never served eviction paperwork. it has not been filed in the court. what are his rights? Lakewood washington

BLACKERBY