Op-ed: The Problem With Psych Meds and LGBT People

[stephaniec]

Op-ed: The Problem With Psych Meds and LGBT People

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/12/op-ed-problem-psych-meds-and-lgbt-people

The Advocate/BY Ally Nugent August 12 2015 5:00 AM ET

"I recently read The Advocate's article about Jesse Jacobs, a young gay man in Texas who was denied his dose of Xanax and presumably died as a result of the jail staff's negligence in stopping the medication. As a gay cis woman who has lost 34 months of my life to a benzodiazepine, I want the world to know that Jesse Jacobs is not the first and will not be the last LGBTQ person to die or suffer due to institutional negligence and rapid cessation of a prescribed medication."

[Allison Wunderland]

Yeah, I was arrested in the VA because I was having a blood-sugar related meds reaction. Denied "standard of care" by VA and held in "suicide watch" in a MALE facility with only suicide vest for clothing, cold, medically stressed, and sexually threaten by being held as "male" --

No one ever took my blood sugar reading. No one ever asked me what was going on.

I won my Federal Tort Claim -- because I'm not naive with regard to the law and what is required in the provision of "standard of medical care."