Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida (CCHR Florida)

Please urge the below House Representatives to schedule and vote YES on the Gabriel Myers Bill – House Bill 1567

(Senator Storms lets you know what you can say to the legislators, to get this bill moving, in bold, below)

Senator Ronda Storms was interviewed on radio, Sunday night,regarding this bill and the subject of psychotropic drugs.  Below, is some of what she has to say to you, the public.  Please read and call the 3 legislators whose names and phone numbers are at the bottom of this email. Do not hesitate to stand up and be the champions for Florida’s children.  It is a beginning for human rights advocates all over the country.

Regarding psychotropic drugs and Florida’s children:

“…You have to do honor to these children and to these babies who have had terrible lives and who had terrible things happen to them. But the way that I honor their little lives is by making sure that I do all that I can that no other child has to endure that…and that we improve the system for their sake.”  (more…)

 Please urge the below House Representatives on the Health Care Services Policy Committee to schedule the Gabriel Myers Bill – House Bill 1567 and vote YES.

Senator Ronda Storm

State Sen. Ronda Storms objects to “chemical straitjackets.”

 
Comments can be made here:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/in-wake-of-childs-suicide-legislature-moves-to-limit-foster-cares-reliance/1080996

St. Petersburg Times
In wake of child’s suicide, Legislature moves to limit foster care’s reliance on psychiatric drugs
 

By Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer 
Friday, March 19, 2010  

TALLAHASSEE – A year after a 7-year-old boy heavily medicated on powerful psychiatric drugs hanged himself in his Margate foster home, lawmakers are pushing to reform state medical requirements for foster children. (more…)

Congratulations!  Today, the Florida Senate’s Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee voted unanimously to approve the Gabriel Myers Bill, Senate Bill 2718. It still needs to go through 2 other Senate Committees.   

Gabriel Myers

On the Florida House side, the first committee needs to schedule it for a vote.

Please urge the House Representatives on the Health Care Services Policy Committee to schedule and vote YES on the Gabriel Myers Bill – House Bill 1567.

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Lots of comments are being made here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20000546-504083.html (more…)

Two important messages, below

Miami Herald
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatrist gets warning from FDA
The psychiatrist who treated the Broward foster child who killed himself last year is now in hot water with the FDA.
 

(full article below)

Gabriel Myers

Please urge your senators to vote yes on the Gabriel Myers Bill – Senate Bill 2718. 

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Comments on the below article can be made here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/16/1531156/psychiatrist-gets-warning-from.html

Miami Herald

MENTAL HEALTH

Psychiatrist gets warning from FDA

The psychiatrist who treated the Broward foster child who killed himself last year is now in hot water with the FDA. (more…)

ACTION ALERT: CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS WITHIN YOUR DISTRICT 

STOP THE MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING PROGRAMS IN THE FEDERAL HEALTH  CARE BILL

The New York Times

Millions Spent to Sway Democrats on Health Care

Published: March 14, 2010

“…pharmaceutical companies made a $12 million investment for a final advertising push” to the mental health care bill. 

“Several on-the-fence Democrats said they were scrambling to sort out their constituents’ views as the outside noise grows deafening. (more…)

Be A Champion for Florida’s Children

  Candlelight Vigil

 April 16th, 7pm-8:30pm

 At the bridge from Clearwater to Clearwater Beach

 (city parking near the courthouse) 

In Memory of Gabriel Myers and the Right to Informed Consent

Gabriel Myers

Hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Young and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida.

We need 200 champions, minimally.

 Call to confirm-727-442-8820 or email laurie@cchrflorida.org

 Go to www.cchrflorida.org/vigil to get more information.

Please Call 727-442-8820 or email Laurie@cchrflorida.org to confirm your attendance and also your friends and co-workers.

CCHR Florida has just implemented a new webpage that allows you to give a gift to one of your customers, your friends or your loved ones.

 For companies that acknowledge their customer’s birthday, anniversary or any other occassion, you can donate any amount in the customer’s name and recieve a custom certificate that you can hand to them with your well wishes.

For an individual you can make a one time donation, of any amount, in your friend’s name and they will receive an email letting them know that you have just given a donation in their name. (more…)

Comments on the below article can be made here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/02/1507445/regulations-sought-for-foster.html

Miami Herald
FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Regulations sought for foster kids prescribed psychiatric drugs
March 2, 2010

In the wake of a Broward child’s death, state lawmakers will consider a bill designed to make it harder for child welfare workers to use mental health drugs to control foster kids.

BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER

Florida lawmakers will once again consider a measure to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs among foster children in the wake of last year’s death of a 7-year-old Broward boy who was on a cocktail of mood-altering drugs. (more…)

The DSM V, fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is being worked on by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for release in 2013.  Again, they continue to sit around making up things as they go.  This must stop!  We need your support!

Comments from Dr. Dan Edmunds, psychologist, on the fraud of psychiatry’s bible (DSM V)

“The current revision process of the American Psychiatric Association regarding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is lacking in any objective science. It appears that the creation of new ‘disorders’ and the re-classification of some existent disorders are fueled by political machinations and not by any true desire to aid distressed persons. It is (more…)