USA: $10 million lawsuit against state hospital for overmedicating, mistreating patient
Posted by ddani on 7 November, 2011
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statesmanjournal.com on November 02, 2011 reported that a $10 million lawsuit filed against the Oregon State Hospital claims that a mental patient suffered two heart attacks because he was overmedicated and mistreated at the Salem psychiatric facility. The Marion County civil suit alleges that OSH patient Joshua Jaschke, now 32, was prescribed doses of the drug Adderall, along with other medications, which caused him "to feel sick and suffer pain and heart attacks and permanent damage to his heart." Jaschke suffered two heart attacks during a one-week period in November 2009 because of negligent care, according to the suit.
The original article can be found at statesmanjournal.com.


