Follow Us
Follow Our Youth Group
Categories
- Abilify
- ADD
- ADHD
- Alternatives
- Anti-Seizure Medications
- Antidepressants
- Antipsychotics
- Benzodiazepines
- Big Pharma
- Books/DVDs
- Buy Stuff
- Buy Stuff From CCHR
- Celebrities
- Children
- Contests
- Department of Children and Families
- Depression
- Diabled Persons
- Disorders
- Drug Warnings
- Drugs in Florida
- Drugs in our Schools
- DSM
- Elderly
- Electro Convulsive Therapy
- Events
- Florida Patient's Bill of Rights
- Foster Care
- Health Care
- Health Care Fraud
- Informed Consent
- Involuntary Commitment
- Legislation
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Memberships – Donations
- Mental Health Care
- Mental Health Human Rights
- Mental Health Screening
- Mental Illness
- Military
- Mother's Act
- News
- Over Prescribing Meds
- Parents Rights
- Paxil
- Pregnancy
- Prescription Drugs
- Professional Opinions
- Prozac
- Psychiatric Abuse
- Psychiatrists / Psychologists
- Psychiatry
- Psychostimulants
- Psychotropic Drugs
- Risperdal
- Ritalin
- Schools
- Social Security
- SSI (Supplemental Social Security)
- Street Drugs
- Success Stories
- Suicide Prevention
- Take Action
- Teens
- The Baker Act
- Thorazine
- Uncategorized
- Veterans
- Video
- Vidoes
- Volunteer
- What is CCHR Florida?
- Youth Group
- Zyprexa
ADHD
Alternatives
Children
Detoxification
FDA Reporting System
Health
Tag Archives: DCF
Florida Tightening Psychiatric Drug Rules
Daytona Beach News Journal DCF tightening medicine rules By DEBORAH CIRCELLI May 14, 2010 DAYTONA BEACH – A bill that would have ensured tighter controls on administering psychotropic drugs to foster children failed to pass this legislative session, but … Continue reading
Florida foster kids slower to get medications now
Comments can be made here: http://tinyurl.com/yk2zg3c (short registration required) Florida Times Union Florida foster kids slower to get medications now The new rules come after a 7-year-old boy hanged himself in April. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 By Brandon Larrabee … Continue reading
Alarmed Lawmakers Pledge to Take Action On Psychiatric Drugs On Foster Care
You can thank the Florida Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee for taking action by writing the Chairman of the Commitee, Senator Ronda Storms: storms.ronda.web@flsenate.gov and ccing the other Senators on this committee: wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov justice.charlie.web@flsenate.gov hill.tony.web@flsenate.gov garcia.rudy.web@flsenate.gov portilla.alex.web@flsenate.gov … Continue reading
Gov. Charlie Crist urged to stop 'chemical restraint' of foster kids
Gov. Charlie Crist urged to stop ‘chemical restraint’ of foster kids http://ping.fm/7ho8j A pair of adoptive parents are urging Gov. Charlie Crist and lawmakers to stop the `chemical restraint’ of children in state care. BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau … Continue reading
Don't bend the law when giving foster kids drugs
The Department of Children & Families’ (DCF) study about the lackadaisical use of medication for children shows the agency is taking seriously its mission to protect kids. It should follow through with hefty sanctions for those who ignored the law. … Continue reading
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem
Sun Sentinel Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem July 1, 2009 By: Howard M. Talenfeld and Maria E. Abate The use of dangerous prescription medications for children and adults in residential and group home … Continue reading