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Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

  It is good news that a conference was just held in the Vatican to discuss why psychotropic drugs are being increasingly prescribed to young children and whether the clinical trials support this increase.  This conference was sponsored by the Pontifical Council...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Early Intervention – A Fraud with a Hidden Agenda

by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

  Early intervention into the mental and emotional lives of children was given governmental go ahead by Connecticut state lawmakers recently with the passage of Bill 972 “An Act Concerning the Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health of Youths.”...
New Video: Your Right to Non-Psychiatric Treatment

New Video: Your Right to Non-Psychiatric Treatment

by CCHR Florida | Jun 14, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Please watch, like, comment on and share this new CCHR Florida Video: With new Federal legislation, mental health questions will be mandatory for medical practitioners. You do still have the right to alternative treatments. Informed Consent is a legal concept that...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

ADHD the epidemic of misdiagnosis and overmedication in children

by CCHR Florida | Jun 7, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Thomas Power from director of the Center for Management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and US NEWS writes, recent findings that 11 percent of children have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder raise legitimate concerns about over diagnosis,...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Why is ADHD Rampant Only in the United States?

by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

It is all too common these days that a child who can’t sit still in class or can’t focus on his school work will be diagnosed with ADHD and put on psychotropic drugs as treatment.  At least nine percent of American school children have been given such a diagnosis and...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the federal agency that conducts and supports research that seeks to understand, treat, and prevent mental illness. NIMH recently dismissed the long awaited DSM V manual as being unworthy of NIMH’s future research and...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Involuntary incarceration isn’t solution for personal, social ills

by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

National tragedies like the student massacres in Columbine, Colorado; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Newtown, Connecticut tend to revive state and national debates and legislation on mental health reforms. This often heated political discussion involves the involuntary...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Going to Sleep with Benzodiazepines Carry Huge Risks

by CCHR Florida | Apr 29, 2013 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Benzodiazepines tranquilizers first appeared in 1960 with the introduction of Librium followed in 1963 by Valium. This class of drug was originally intended for anxiety but since they made people drowsy, they also started being prescribed as a sleep aid. These two...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Can Anxiety Attack Symptoms Be Caused by Food Allergies?

by CCHR Florida | Apr 11, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Many doctors and nutritionists are finding that anxiety attack symptoms and some types of depression are the result of food allergies. Correct the diet and the person’s unwanted mental and emotional symptoms disappear. This research flies in the teeth of...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Benzodiazepines Can Cause Dementia and Other Serious Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | Apr 1, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Psychiatric drugs such as Xanax and Valium are pretty much on the same level of notoriety as Prozac and Zoloft.  However, Xanax and Valium are not antidepressants but are benzodiazepines.   Benzodiazepines have sedative and hypnotic effects.  They are widely...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Long-Term Study on ADHD Lacking and Misleading

by CCHR Florida | Mar 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

A new study followed children diagnosed with ADHD into adulthood.  It claims that ADHD is not just a childhood disorder but can continue into adulthood.  It claims that children diagnosed with ADHD were more likely to develop at least one other psychiatric disorder. ...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Prescribing ADHD Drugs to Children as a Study Aid is Unethical

by CCHR Florida | Mar 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Stimulant drugs are routinely prescribed these days for children who can’t sit still in class or who can’t concentrate and focus on their work.  Many doctors will be overly quick to diagnose ADHD and write a prescription.  If this wasn’t bad enough, it has now gone...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Play Therapy; OneWay to Treat Mental Health or Behavioral Health Symptoms?

by CCHR Florida | Mar 7, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Play therapy is defined as a form of therapy “used with children to help them express or act out their experiences, feelings, and problems by playing with dolls, toys, and other play material, under the guidance or observation of a therapist.” Play therapy is...
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