Aside from those who promote and use legal drugs that rob the brain, other brain robbers are the doctors and government agencies and insurance companies that refuse to properly diagnose and treat brain injury.
I have found much evidence that supports the need to certainly at least properly rule out brain damage (with neuropsychological testing) BEFORE treating symptoms with drugs.
Below is some of the evidence and sources I’ve found, in addition to verbal confirmation I’ve gotten from sources like Brain Injury Associations.
Patients who have had a TBI are more vulnerable to adverse effects of medication and are less likely to show evidence of benefit. Symptoms will often improve spontaneously. Furthermore, there may not be an indication for the symptom that the drug is being used for. It is prudent to continue drug treatment of behavioral, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms after TBI only if there is good evidence that the patient is benefiting.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/trauma-and-violence/content/article/10168/1534138
Many drugs given to brain injured persons have undesirable cognitive side effects and cause more harm than good. Certain antiseizure medications cause attention and memory problems, and choice of medication often does not reflect this awareness. Minor tranquilizers (such as Valium) which may calm anxious or tense persons without brain damage, may cause memory problems, poor judgment, and emotional control problems in head injured persons. Major tranquilizers, which organize psychotic thinking and calms agitated behavior in schizophrenics, can have the opposite effect after brain damage. The dampening of the neurotransmitter systems (which helps the schizophrenic) after brain injury decreases cortical functioning, worsens cognitive deficits, leads to more confusion and disorganization, and thus poorer thinking and increased agitation.
http://www.getrealresults.com/tenmyths.html
DEBUNKING TEN MYTHS OF “RECOVERY”
~from CH2 “The Nature of Head Injury” by Thomas Kay, Ph.D. and Muriel Lezak, Ph.D., the book is entitled “Traumatic Brain Injury and Vocational Rehabilitation”, Published by The Research and Training Center, University of Wisconsin-Stout.
http://gordonjohnson.com/
http://www.brainindex.com/
The lawyer on the sites above seems very knowledgeable and he also seems to truly care about helping. His short videos certainly debunk the myths Dare County Department of Social Services and its lawyers, including my daughter’s so-called advocate attorney, clung to as they worked hard to deny her diagnoses of brain damage and deny her civil rights.
They continue to deny her civil rights and her right to proper diagnosis and treatment, based on pure lies. And they are getting away with it just as some dentists are getting away with poisoning patients with high doses of Halcion.
In nearly 85 percent of the patients that I see, the CT Scan or MRI (these are very expensive machines that take a picture of the brain) results are “negative”—in other words, normal. People can have significant head injuries and still not have a positive finding on these tests.
Neuropsychological testing is probably one of the best vehicles for diagnosing head injury. It’s between 90 and 95 percent correct in accurately diagnosing someone who has a head injury. Right now, it is the best technique available. But not everyone has access to a neuropsychologist.
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SURVIVAL GUIDE
By Dr. Glen Johnson, Clinical Neuropsychologist
5123 North Royal Drive || Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: 231-929-7358 || Email: debglen@yahoo.com
Website http://www.tbiguide.com/
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