Posted on 01/15/2016 10:23:03 PM PST by BeadCounter
JONESBORO, GA (CBS46) -
A psychiatrist was arrested after 36 of his patients died, 12 of whom passed away due to overdose on prescription medication.
Doctor Narendra Nagareddy's office in Jonesorbo, just south of Atlanta, was raided by DEA agents Thursday.
Dr. Nagareddy is accused of violating Georgia's Controlled Substance Act.
"The search warrant [alleges] 36 of his patients have died, 12 of whom were autopsied with cause of death being overdose on prescription medication," said the Clayton County District Attorney.
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That is one scary looking dude. Not sure uf I would ever voluntarily see him
Got this on my iPods.
Lots of fun to crank up on the bike.
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7jnh2oVO4
As a healthcare provider...I urge caution
http://www.pharmacist.com/refusing-prescription-and-defaming-prescriber
I have to say... For a second, that made me frown... Bummer. It did make me think... Were we so short on Latino talent back then? Obviously, he might have just been more talented than all the others who tried the part.
This is a psych? only 36?
Yep that’s the answer to the question... what do you say when the Fed’s knock on your door?
When they bust down your door you say... Hey man don’t touch that, that’s Dave’s stuff!
Benzodiazepines include Valium and Xanax.
According to pharmacologists, Xanax may be the most addictive drug ever.
Makes psychiatry and psychiatrists look BAD.
Hope they have a sense of humor.
o_O
No it is abused by MORONS wanting to use Xanax and heavy alcohol to increase the drugs effects. For patients such as myself who have successfully taken it long term {decades} at a correct low dosage consistent in the bloodstream it works. It's recreational use got it an undeserved bad name.
I saw what the so called safer non addictive antidepressants can do to a person in a worse case scenario short of death which they can also do. It was like LSD to the person. Six doctors including two shrinks could not figure out why the person was hallucinating especially with no prior history of any mental disorders which result in it. I looked up the two medications Dyseryl aka Trazodone & Zoloft which are prescribed like candy and saw the Serotonin Syndrome warning. I tried to show that to a doctor involved in the treatment and was told it was rubbish. Funny thing was his pharmacology professor wrote it. I put my foot down and she got the help needed. BTW had she not been on a low level of Xanax before this she likely would have died. When Ativan was given as a counteracting treatment and the other two stopped she returned to normal in about 24 hours with some bleeding in the brain and partial amnesia as an end result. It was my wife whom up until her recent death from COPD and quadriplegia complications was a 30 year user of prescribed Xanax.
Xanax though is all to often prescribed incorrectly as it was with me at first. I started out on 2 mg twice a day. For a 6-8 hour period it worked well for six more hours it didn't until the next dose was taken. In the mean time they were telling me to take antidepressants. I was getting much worse. Finally one doctor who had seen my disorders before fixed the meds right. No more antidepressants we prescribed as they were over taxing my highly damaged sensory processing system which included my Inner Ears. I was starting to have the symptoms my wife would later have from them. He then said take .5mg of Xanax 4 times a day. Dang what an improvement. It worked. No more works part of the time it worked all the time. .5 mg was a fourth of the strength I had been taking to start with. My medical records now have No Antidepressants written on them.
There is dependency on the drug yes. Without it I can not function due to auditory and to a lesser extent optical sensory processing damage involving my Inner Ear and the portion of the brain that processes the sensory impulses from the Inner Ears. Xanax tones down incoming sensory bombardments both auditory and optical which was triggering my panic attacks and upper torso seizures. Not a cure but sure helps control it. I've safely stepped up the strength many times when a temporary situation warranted to do things like shopping etc. It works. Most Xanax problems are by recreational usage mixing it with alcohol. The rest are likely incorrect dosages as I described.
Inner Ear aka Vestibular Damage is a leading cause of Anxiety Disorders but you want find that on mental health publications but you will find it on Vestibular Research publications. For those patients antidepressants can be as I described deadly. But no Hollywood Stars are effected so it's a non media story. I learned by experience and doing the look ups.
I didn’t know that. Funny...
LOL
thank you for the information about vestibular damage, and for sharing your story.
The patients I see who take benzodiazepines nearly always have more difficulties than those who take anti-depressants alone, but I have come to see that many of them have conditions more difficult to treat in the first place, and as you point out, some patients cannot tolerate anti-depressants, and others have conditions that will respond better to benzodiazepines.
I have one relative who became addicted to Xanax and Ambien; his ability to function decreased which increased his depression and anxiety, and he was hospitalized in a delerium state.
For another relative, Klonopin was a God-send and a life-saver that kept him OUT of the hospital, and he was eventually able to taper off.
First thing quads loose besides muscle use is their Inner Ear function. It must be regained. Thus the tilt tables seen in rehab units. She was put on Xanax at first about 30 years ago for an anxiety issue that would simulate a heart attack. This went on several days in the hospital. The EKG said heart attack the bloodwork said no. Finally a Cardiologist, Rehab Doc, GP, Neurologist, and Psychiatrist, were watching her doing a test and noticed when she was stressed a valve would stick closed. They talked it over and prescribed Xanax and some heart medications and it worked.
The antidepressants came about 13 years later when she needed to have an almost emergency full mouth extraction of her bad teeth.
She had been on the antidepressants three to six months when the Serotonin related issue surfaced in a matter of hours. She was agitated for no reason and I called her Shrink. I took her to the office and in 5 minutes time he said well let's double the Zoloft see you in a month. By the time we got home she said "I see the devil". I took her to our usual medical hospital which also had a pysch unit. The ER attending looked at her for a second or two and said transfer to a mental facility. I said hey wait I dont think that's it check her bloodwork and do an MRI on her brain her history warrants this. He said NO I'm calling the state to get her out of her. I left the room to call family. When I came back she was moved to another room, curtains closed, a guard outside her door, no one in the room, in her motorized wheelchair I had disabled her controls on and she was unconscious and non responsive.
I yelled get the doctor in her NOW! He walks back in and I said help ner no kind of mental disorder causes this. He said I'm transferring her to a mental facility I yelled "You're a stupid ****" mental doesn't do this. Me and my dad took her out of there and took her to a level one facility. The ER attending reacted fast and in a few minutes had her awake but still in a psychotic state. He asked me what had happened and I told all of it. He then says I'm calling the state & transferring her to a mental facility. I said what about bloodwork? He said no need. I said what about a MRI scan on her brain. He said why? I said Stroke she's a heart patient. He said So?
The state arrived and I told them what had happened. This was a Mobile Crisis Team. I said with her history no one has checked for physical causes and this onset was sudden. NO prior history of this happening. I expressed more concerns and they denied them the transfer. It got worse treatment wise.
She was admitted to the hospital. She had to be restrained to the bed due to thrashing. In the mean time her muscles were rigid BP and pulse up and hallucinating. Now this next part should have told them it was medication. The discontinued all meds but her .25mg Xanax. Within 36 hours her whole behavior both mental and physical was normal. In walks a Shrink who never had seen her, ask 5 minutes of questions and says Yeah I agree lets up her Zoloft. All that day, night, and next morning she was fine. I was there. I went home about 11:30 am. In walks nurse with her Zoloft. Our daughters were there and saw what happened. Within an hour she relapsed. Every symptom returned. The next morning after a rough night I went home but stopped off in the chapel a few minutes.
I got home and went on line and typed in Zoloft +Tradodone +Adverse reaction. It was like a Vegas Jackpot of info. I read credible sources including the university pharmacology professors article on Serotonin Syndrome written by that hospitals professor. I called my dad who was in my wifes room and said I think I have the answer don't let them give her any meds none whatsoever I'm on my way back right now.
I went to the floor supervisor a RN and said I have every reason to believe my wife is having an adverse medication reaction to antidepressaants and the doctor needs to see this now. She said Oh we're not allowed to bother the doctors he will be here in the morning. I said OK then these are my orders as her husband you will obey no medications without my approval None! Only Ativan or Xanax can be given her and nothing else. Next morning their House Doctor comes in and he was mad. He said why did you override my orders for. I said please just read this article it explains it. He saw the title and didn't read it and said Pure Rubbish! I said Ok Doc who wrote it then do you know him? He glanced at the mane then he read it and walked out. That night she again was back to herself for the most part but had no recollection of what had happened. N
Next morning House Doc walks in and sees her normal and then decides it's MRI and blood work time. She had a new bleeder and an old one on her brain. The old one from Transverse Myelitis at quadriplegia onset and one from the Serotonin Syndrome. Sh was left with partial amnesia. When our regular Internal Medicine Doc saw her {the hospitals kept her out of the loop entirely} she said "Oh My God what did they do to you"? Had they called her she could have told them it wasn't mental. Xanax and Ativan likely saved her life. An even more Ironic ppart of this is right before the Serotonin Syndrome hit the Oral Surgeon who was going to put her in a hospital and remove all her teeth ordered a chemical treadmill. This was a few days before the Serotonin reaction hit. After she got out of the hospital from the Serotonin Syndrome we went to see the Cardiologist that did her treadmill. He said you do not need heart medications because you do not have a heart problem serious enough to warrant it. The Xanax controlled it. He also said I do see an abnormality that is not part of your original problem and with what you just experience I attribute it to early onset of your adverse reaction. She was freed of 17 years taking Cardizem and Persentine {sp}.
I've had more bad experiences with antidepressants. Why don't Shrinks warn male patients about Paxil? Dysreflexia {Shock} from bladder blockage can be fatal fairly fast. It happened to me. I realized what was happening to me because of him caregiver training for my wife and went to the ER just barely in time. Doc in ER said you're our fourth one this week thanks to Paxil. I had a Folley two weeks thanks to it.
In an age of specialized medicine the basics have been forgotten the old family Docs knew because they had seen it. Inner Ear Disorders run in my family on my dads side. I was the worse case my cousins the next two worse cases. One was driving an 18 wheeler when his hit him. He had to be rushed to the hospital.
No doubt Benzo have risk but it is insane and very misleading to ignore the very serious issues antidepressants can cause as well. Antidepressants do not have the bad stigma attached to them because everyone takes them and it is accepted. I do wonder how many have died from Serotonin Syndrome and it was labeled as suicide or even homicides have been committed due to a psychotic mental illness they didn't have, heart attacks, stroke, etc? I doubt half the Shrinks even today can tell you what Serotonin Syndrome is and it's symptoms. When I say homicides caused by this I do not say this in a tinfoil conspiracy manner. I say it seeing for myself that the persons hallucinations are their reality. A 4'10" tall white quad thought she was Della Reese and an angel. Mental health is stuck back in 1950's medical journals.
My Internal Medicine Doc writes my Xanax prescription and he wrote my wifes as well. He knows I'm not a recreational user or addict. I have an injury I received to my back from 1977 on my ship and have Sciatic Nerve episodes that can put me on the floor & then lay me up a week. Last time it hit he wrote me a script for Hydocodone and a muscle relaxer. I took them two days {four pills total} and I was so blocked up I could take the pain and immobility more than the pills. I surrendered the meds to him next time I saw him LOL.
These Xanax Boogieman articles do harm to the legitimate needs patients much in the same manner the same type stories on painkillers do for patients who have severe nerve damage from things a decade or two earlier they would not have survived but increased technology saved their life. The doctors are backed into a corner being second guessed by law enforcement reading their databases, boards, lawyers, media, you name it. Sure yes indeed there are some very bad doctors out there. They are a minority and the majority is being punished. This doctor in the article is an exception and not the rule in most cases. He obviously did wrong going out of his field then punish him and not everyone else is what I'm saying.
Oh yeah, my relative abused the Ambien. He’d used up all his Xanax and figured out that half an Ambien would act like a tranquilizer. Only he ended up taking about 45 mg Ambien in 24 hours (night dose for men is 10 mg) and became paranoid and delusional. But even the 10 mg causes amnesia, somnambulism and bizarre behavior in some people.
I thank you for your vivid description of serotonin symptom - something I hope never to see, but to recognize if I do.
500 mG Thorazine, Nurse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZBRzCP2UQ
The articles did not mention what drug he prescribed or where he went to medical school. However, he was board certified.
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