by CCHR Florida | Oct 25, 2011 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
In a pilot trial being done by the University of South Florida, children are being tested to see if a strong antibiotic is an effective mental health treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Yes that is correct, tested. This raises red flag questions like...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 24, 2011 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The recent reliance on psychiatric drugs to treat any and all problems in thought, learning, traumatic and even social situations, often replaces actual solutions to life’s problems. Psychiatric drugs have become a mainstream phrase that 100% of our population is...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2011 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
A boom in the diagnosis of OCD in children has given the psychiatric industry a new playing field. What are the current methods used by psychiatrists to enforce their fascination with drugging children as a means to “cure” mental disease? And how do antibiotics relate...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 22, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Naples News Nationally Known Psychiatrist Pleads in Gun Threat Case A nationally known Naples [Florida] child psychiatrist who pointed a gun at his teenage son’s friend, then allegedly threatened his 15-year-old son, pleaded today to aggravated assault with a...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2011 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
The sentencing of Marianella Valera, 40, came only days after the same judge sent her 49-year-old boyfriend, Lawrence Duran, to prison for 50 years. The pair ran Miami-based American Therapeutic Corp, which prosecutors say defrauded the taxpayer-funded Medicare program of more than $200 million.
by CCHR Florida | Sep 1, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Read the latest Florida news about the license of a mental health counselor which was suspended; the statute in Florida providing protection for a child and their parent regarding the prescribing of psychotropic medication; and the new prescription drug monitoring...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 21, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
A Miami psychiatrist’s license was suspended by the Department of Health after he tested positive for using cocaine and pleaded no contest to a charge of soliciting a prostitute. Evan Zimmer psychiatrist – license suspended Miami psychiatrist’s license...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 29, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
If you wish to know the truth about psychiatry, prepare yourself, because it is disturbing to face the facts about how human beings are being treated by mainstream psychiatry. Liberally prescribing psychotropic drugs for more than two decades including “off-label”...
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 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 30, 2011 Miami-Area Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty for Role in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme WASHINGTON – A Miami-area psychiatrist pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 20, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Dosed in juvie jail: Troubled doctors hired to treat kids in state custody Palm Beach Post By Michael LaForgia Sunday, June 19, 2011 By the time Florida started paying Dr. Gold Smith Dorval to counsel and medicate jailed children, the Pembroke Pines psychiatrist...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 8, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Another suit filed against embattled jail psychiatrist By TONY HOLT | Hernando Today Published: June 7, 2011 She was offended, violated and wasn’t going to take it anymore, she said. The former Hernando County jail inmate reported the alleged sexual harassment...
by CCHR Florida | May 24, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Palm Beach Post Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors By Michael LaForgia Monday May 23, 2011 In Florida’s juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug...
by CCHR Florida | May 4, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Highlands Today State: Take license from Sebring clinician By ROBERT BOYER | Highlands Today May 3, 2011 ARCADIA – The state of Florida wants to strip the professional credentials of a licensed mental health counselor from Sebring who was charged in 2010 with...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 25, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse
Punjwani first came under scrutiny when it was revealed he had prescribed several psychiatric drugs – some of which were linked to an increased risk of suicide among children – to 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, who hanged himself at his foster home in 2009....