by CCHR Florida | Sep 10, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Nicky Baker, Songwriter and international vocalist, performs her new song, “Just a Boy”! Many families are unaware that the mental health diagnoses of depression, ADHD, and the-like, have no medical test to evidence that they exist. Let’s help educate families...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 25, 2012 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Some synthetic weed is being manufactured here in the United States, potentially netting millions of dollars for these “entrepreneurs.” Earlier this month authorities in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana arrested seven who were allegedly part of a large synthetic weed...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Check up on DJJ doctors The Palm Beach Post June 27, 2011 Anyone with an Internet connection can go online and see that Dr. Gold Smith Dorval is on probation with the Florida Board of Medicine and that his medical license was suspended because he stole money from...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
For ages psychiatry was associated with Freud and all your problems were thought to be rooted in your childhood or from your mother. Psychiatric drugs came on the scene in the 1950’s and psychiatrists shifted away from talk therapy to focusing on the brain with drugs...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 1, 2011 | Mental Illness
A half a decade ago, mental illness was relatively rare, found mostly in mental institutions or out-patient clinics, not in the mainstream. A radically different scene exists today. Millions of school children, previously considered bored or unruly, are now considered...
by CCHR Florida | May 26, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Juvenile delinquency is a troubling phenomenon, made all the more challenging by the current trend to treat at risk kids with dangerous antipsychotic drugs. In an article by John Kelly written for YouthToday , this alarming information was reported, “A...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 28, 2011 | Elderly, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
A recent article from The American Lawyer Academy discusses the continued unethical and dangerous use of psychotropic drugs on seniors. Rather than providing seniors with the care and compassion one would expect, such “care” often takes the form of strong psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 28, 2010 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs
Did you know that drug companies make 14.6 BILLION dollars annually on just antipsychotics alone? That’s more than any other class of drug. It didn’t used to be that way. Antipsychotics used to be prescribed only for the severely “mentally ill” but now according to...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 16, 2009 | Children and Teens
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. Miami...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 9, 2009 | Disabled Persons
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 facilities...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 7, 2009 | Children and Teens
Florida Times Union More parents, courts approve medication; some fear they aren’t informed decisions. By Brandon Larrabee Story updated at 12:24 PM on Monday, Jul. 6, 2009 TALLAHASSEE – As a task force examining the use of psychiatric drugs by foster...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 7, 2009 | Children and Teens
Miami Herald 07.07.09 A new state study found that child-welfare doctors and case workers aren’t following the rules when it comes to the drugging of 6- and 7-year-olds in state care. BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE —...