by CCHR Florida | Jan 4, 2012 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Child psychiatry in the state of Florida has an unpleasant history. Juvenile delinquents and foster children alike have been the victim of misdiagnosis and over prescription by child psychiatrists with sometimes shady pasts. Dr. Dorval, a child psychiatrist hired to...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 27, 2011 | Children and Teens, Fraud
by CCHR Florida | Dec 23, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The latest methods of and new definition for “psychiatry”, have changed. The “modern” bio-chemical psychiatrists rely on seeing patients for a mere ten minutes or so, deciding which meds to prescribe, and sending them on their way. this leaves the patient, searching...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 20, 2011 | Children and Teens, Rights
When a mother in Michigan noticed that the pills being prescribed to her daughter were making her condition worse and not better, she stopped giving her daughter the medications. That’s when the real trouble began! When Child Protective Services found out that the...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Psychiatry knows that they are harming in the name of “Mental Health”. A recent article, in the “Psychiatric Times”, revealed that the psychiatric industry is well aware of the harms of psychiatric medication and has known, since at least 2004, about a medical test...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2011 | Children and Teens
The Psychiatric community would have parents believe that their children have mental health problems, yet, medical science does not support the psychiatric industry on mental health diagnoses. Psychiatrists admit, at an American Psychiatric Convention, that there are...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders
The answer is, “not so well,” according to recent investigations. Apparently what happens is this: children are first taken out of abusive or neglectful homes and put into the foster care system, presumably to be given the chance at better lives. So far, so good. ...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 9, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening
“Psychiatric medications are among the most widely prescribed and biggest-selling class of drugs in the US. In 2010, Americans spent $16.1 billion on antipsychotics to treat depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, $11.6 billion on antidepressants and...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 6, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
A diagnosis of depression for kids is a large moneymaker for the pharmaceutical industry. Shockingly, more than one out of every 10 US citizens over age 12 now takes an antidepressant. A diagnosis of depression for kids is thus included in that statistic....
by CCHR Florida | Dec 6, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
ADHD is one of the many disorders psychiatrists have developed today. It stands for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” There is no actual proof ADHD is real, it’s just an “illness” created by psychiatrists by which they give...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 5, 2011 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
A thyroid disorder can lead to depression. It is unfortunate that this side effect has been misdiagnosed by so many psychiatrists. How well do psychiatric practitioners know their medical facts? Would they recognize a thyroid disorder when one is presented? Apparently...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 5, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Come help us to decorate our tree at Winter Wonderland, Sat. Dec. 10 at 4pm.Each ornament represents one child saved from psychiatric harm and abuse. The CCHR Florida Youth Group will be decorating our X-Mas tree from 4-5pm. Celebrate the X-mas season with our team...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2011 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Children in foster care are more likely to take multiple antipsychotic medications for longer periods of time than any other group of children By DR. MARK ABDELMALEK, BRINDA ADHIKARI, SARAH KOCH, JOSEPH DIAZ and CLAIRE WEINRAUB Nov. 30, 2011 The federal government...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 30, 2011 | Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
“More than 8% of children in foster care have received antipsychotic medication, and just over one quarter of those in foster care who also receive disability benefits take these drugs, according to a recent studyin the journal Pediatrics… The numbers...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 30, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
In a letter to State Officials (across the U.S), written by three different divisions of Health and Human Services, it states: “Children in foster care represent only three percent of children covered by Medicaid,yet, based on a study of pharmacy claims in 16...