Nursing Homes Are Forcing Tax Payer Funded Antipsychotics To Patients Who Refuse Them
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Nursing Homes Are Forcing Tax Payer Funded Antipsychotics To Patients Who Refuse Them
“Drug’s manufacturer for giving lucrative kickbacks to nursing homes that prescribed it to sedate residents”
If patients refused the medication, they hide the drug in their drink. Proven at multiple locations by laboratory testing
“Complaining. She called her family and even the state. When the nursing home caught wind of that, May says, a strange new blue and white pill began showing up with her meals.
And I said, woah. Wait a minute. I said, what are these for? And she said she says, you’re not taking you’re refusing to take these? I said, I don’t know what they’re for.
Yeah. I’m gonna refuse to take them.
She then suspected staff was hiding the drug in her lemonade. She gave it and the pills to me and asked I go find out what they are. We sent May’s lemonade to a lab for testing. May was right. The drink contained an anticonvulsant with sedative effects, the same drug she had refused to take.
The feds recently busted the drug’s manufacturer for giving lucrative kickbacks to nursing homes that prescribed it to sedate residents, see the little beads flying around?
They’re still trying to illegally drug me.
Days later and still refusing to take the drug, the nursing home has May removed, citing increased agitation as the reason why. May’s nursing home would not answer our questions, but did tell us each resident is treated individually and staff follows orders of the treating physicians. It’s now September.
May is in a new bed in a new nursing home. But once again, she’s given a strange new pill.
See that white one there? It’s Risperdal, an antipsychotic.
I said, what is this for? And she says, for your schizophrenia. I said, schizophrenia. I says, all of a sudden, I’ve got another diagnosis? That’s inappropriate. That’s completely inappropriate.
Inappropriate and dangerous, says doctor Daniel Pearson. He spent a decade as a psychiatrist in nursing homes before becoming head of psychiatry at Methodist Hospital and says antipsychotics come with serious risks. That’s exactly why the feds say they should only be used if you have one of 3 mental illnesses. The most common being schizophrenia.
If you’re using it just to keep people quiet, that’s putting them at risk of, uh, increased risk of cardiac death, increased increased risk of falling, you know, breaking a hip.
About 6 years ago, the feds noticed taxpayers were spending more on antipsychotics”
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Nursing homes are evil. I used to bring my mom vitamin C and D and if they found it they would confiscate it.
Kill them off quick so they can turn the rooms over.
-SB
Trio Accused of Buying High-Powered Rifle For Mexican Drug Cartel at North Texas Gun Store
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Three men, including two Californians, are in federal custody charged with using cash to buy a military-style rifle. Authorities say a Mexican cartel was the true buyer.
The newest site for gun traffickers to buy high-powered rifles is a store off the Sam Rayburn Tollway in The Colony, police say. It’s a building that could be mistaken for a medical clinic, and it sits between a furniture store and a burger and beer joint. RifleGear is in the middle of Dallas-Fort Worth suburbia.
In January, three men walked into the gun store carrying thousands of dollars in cash. They were trying to buy weapons with enough firepower to invade a small city, according to federal court documents.
One of the men, Ghaith Alagele, 39, flew to DFW International Airport from his home near Riverside, Calif, to oversee the purchases, federal agents said. He was accompanied by a Dallas acquaintance, Mustafa Shaker, 35. A third man, Oliver Vielman-Solis, was allegedly planning to transport the weapons to Arizona. A confidential informant also was there.
Alagele and Shaker, who spoke Arabic to each other, wanted to buy at least four M249S assault rifles. The semiautomatic weapon, a civilian version of the military M249 SAW light machine gun, is belt fed and can fire rounds as fast as the user can pull the trigger. Stringing belts of ammo together, with the ability to swap out overheated barrels, allows users to fire continuously until they run out of ammo.
Undercover agents monitored the transaction. When the men left, the agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nabbed them. They were arrested on charges of making a firearms straw purchase — essentially illegally buying guns on behalf of someone else. It’s a tactic commonly used by Mexican drug cartels to subvert background check laws and buy guns in smaller quantities to avoid suspicion from law enforcement.
Agents searched Shaker’s tow truck parked near the gun store and found $66,700 in cash wrapped in a raincoat in the back seat, court records show.
The rifle is increasingly popular in Mexico’s drug cartel wars that lead to clashes with Mexican police and military forces. The North Texas case is notable because it represents an escalation in the firepower that cartels are seeking to buy in Texas gun stores. U.S. residents are increasingly buying high-powered assault rifles for Mexican gangsters — a trend ATF recently warned gun sellers about. U.S. authorities have stepped up enforcement near the Mexican border and reported a significant increase last year in the seizure of firearms attempted to be smuggled into Mexico.
The enforcement is pushing illicit arms dealers into North Texas, ATF said.
The men, two Iraqi immigrants and a Guatemalan, are in custody awaiting trial on charges of straw purchasing of firearms, and conspiracy to acquire a firearm from a licensed dealer by false or fictitious statement.
Straw purchases are common. The Justice Department doesn’t publish statistics on the crime, but The Washington Post has reported DOJ pursued about 300 such cases in 2019 and 2020.
Last year, a federal law took effect criminalizing straw purchases. Previously, it was a paper offense — essentially lying on a form.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in June 2022 created the federal straw purchasing criminal offense, carrying a penalty of up to 15 years in prison......
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With Muslim names the defendants could be planning terrorism instead of selling to cartels or using cartels as intermediaries to get them to terrorist groups. But say it’s a straw man purchase for the cartels, the latest boogieman for the DEA/DOJ/ATF, to deflect from what is happening here and to avoid asking if islamic terrorism was on the menu.
It is high time that we rid ourselves (as a start) of 2 National recognition periods.
1) National doctors day
2) National nurses week
The standards for these 2 professions has fallen to septic tank levels and large numbers of them have participated in directly or stood by silently in mass murder and bodily harm.
I’m sure we can still find good ones, but the professions in the aggregate hardy deserve a day or week of accolades and back patting…