by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | Children and Teens, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Mental health in America is ramping up. President Obama’s goal is to increase depression screenings for adults and behavioral assessments for kids. This is despite psychiatry’s dismal record of treatment and increased incidents involving school violence and other...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently phoned up Johnson & Johnson, a large drug maker, asking them to help get more people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act health insurance program. According to the New York Times, she also rang up...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 7, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently did a study on military families. They found that one in four children had symptoms of depression. One in three worried excessively and half of the children in the study had trouble sleeping. It goes on to stress that...
by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Hyperactivity supposedly causes weight gain. According to a study recently conducted on two groups of men aged 41, it was discovered that those who had been diagnosed as ADHD carried almost 20 extra pounds, compared to those men free of the psychiatric label. But...