Three Bay Area military veterans struggling with serious mental health issues have filed a federal lawsuit accusing their former Veterans Affairs psychiatrist of serious ethical and legal lapses.
But soon, both veterans say Dr. Sakman’s treatment practices turned bizarre.
“She really pushed her feelings and thoughts onto me to where I learned not to trust myself anymore,” Dodge said.Dr. Sakman, the lawsuit alleges, told Park he wasn’t an alcoholic and pushed him to drink when she took him to lunch at a local sushi restaurant. Park said the therapist told him it was part of his “exposure therapy.”
In Park’s case, the lawsuit alleges the therapist went even further than sexual abuse, giving him hallucinogenic drugs while she took the same drugs herself.According to the lawsuit and Park’s account of the event, Dr. Sakman slipped the potent psychedelic drug Ayahuasca into his tea one night when he was at her house.
Although there are ongoing studies about the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs – some of which show great promise, according to researchers – it’s currently illegal for therapists to prescribe them to patients. Dr. Sakman’s attorney declined an interview request on her behalf. The VA also turned down an interview request from NBC Bay Area, but sent a statement saying:
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