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Antidepressants and Violence: The Clear Connection

by CCHR Florida | Feb 5, 2016 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The idea that antidepressants cause violent behavior has been a concern for years. A study published late last year in Sweden found convincing evidence that this concern is warranted. The evidence showed that young adults from 15 to 24 years old who were currently on...

Abuse And Attacks In Florida’s Mental Hospitals

by CCHR Florida | Jan 20, 2016 | Baker Act, ECT, Fraud, Legislation, Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

In June of 2014, twenty-seven year old Tuarus McNair, a mental patient at Treasure Coast Forensic Treatment Center, was punched repeatedly in the head by another patient during a fight. The hospital workers’ response to this brutal attack was unbelievable. Instead of...

Terrorists on Psych Drugs: Mass Shooters on a Grand Scale

by CCHR Florida | Dec 6, 2015 | Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

What do many terrorists and school shooters in the US have in common? Apparently, both terrorists and school shooters are taking psychiatric drugs. When French Special Forces officers raided the hotel room of wanted ISIS terrorist Salah Abdelsalam in the Paris suburb...

Is the Oregon Massacre Psychiatry’s Fault?

by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2015 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Innocent lives have been lost to yet another madman with a gun, this time at a community college in Oregon. As rational people, we know there has to be a reason for the proliferation of school shootings and other mass murders. Some, including President Obama, have...