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Eating Disorders in the US: 6 Numbers to Know; Former Physician Who Prescribed Fatal "Holy Trinity" to Teenager gets 30 Months Prison · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news brief for April 12th.
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  First data from the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and
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  Associated Disorders shows eating disorders are the second deadliest mental
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  illness.
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  Opioid addiction is the most deadly common eating disorders include
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  binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa.
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  The organization says,
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  approximately 9% of Americans will experience an eating disorder in their
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  lifetime.
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  Eating disorders also affect at least 9% of the world population.
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  Less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as
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  underweight.
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  There are over 10,000 deaths related to eating disorders every year.
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  Approximately 26% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide.
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  Annual economic cost associated with eating disorders is
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  64.7 billion. Second,
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  according to US News and World Reports,
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  best Medical Schools list for 2023.
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  The cost to attend the Top break school for psychiatry is over 60% more
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  than the average cost of attending a private university in the us. Last year,
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  the average annual cost for private college tuition was just under $40,000.
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  The average for public schools depends on instate or out of state.
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  Instate is roughly $10,000 and outstate is around $22,000.
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  However, students at Harvard University in Boston,
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  the top psychiatry program in the country pay over $66,000.
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  Columbia University, New York City,
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  is ranked second for best psychiatry programs.
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  Students pay pages under $67,000 per year.
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  New York University Grossman in New York City is tied for nine students there do
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  not pay tuition since 2021.
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  NYU Grossman School of Medicine provides full tuition scholarships to students
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  in its medical program. Third,
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  the former physician who prescribed the fatal Holy Trinity to a teenager
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  receives 30 months in prison.
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  75 year old former California physician Thomas Keller,
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  illegally prescribed schedule two and four controlled substances.
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  This led to the overdose death of a 17 year old patient.
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  Mr. Keller was indicted in September, 2018.
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  He repeatedly prescribed high dosage levels of oxycodone,
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  carisoprodol, and diazepam.
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  This combination is known colloquially as the Holy Trinity.
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  The patient was struggling with mental health issues and died of an overdose of
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  Oxy and other drugs. The Justice Department says, Mr.
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  Keller first prescribed Oxy to the patient in December, 2016,
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  and a month later, he distributed diazepam to her.
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  Then another month later, he distributed more oxy to her.
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  In July, 2017, he distributed carisoprodol a muscle relaxer.
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  The patient fatally overdosed. Two weeks later, in a different case, Mr.
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  Keller was arrested three years ago for second degree murder charges.
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  After four of his patients died by overdoses,
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  he was found not guilty in two of the deaths,
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  and the jury was hung and five other counts. Mr.
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  Keller also previously served six months in jail for sexual misconduct with
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  patients in 1989.
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  He surrendered his medical license in 2019.
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