CCHR Florida Meets with the National Congress of Black Women
The information on the harms of psychiatric drugging was of real value to these activists. One of the hardest issues they face on a grass roots level is that a parent with a child on psychotropic drugs receives disability payments as a financial incentive. We...Teen Stress Could Lead to Labels
Could stress with your teen lead to false psychiatric labeling? Jeromie Williams, in an article for the, Canada Pop Culture Examiner reports that “Research and records are showing that children and young adults are being diagnosed at higher rates every year with...Brilliant Plan to Get Respect for Psychiatry and You on Drugs
For ages psychiatry was associated with Freud and all your problems were thought to be rooted in your childhood or from your mother. Psychiatric drugs came on the scene in the 1950’s and psychiatrists shifted away from talk therapy to focusing on the brain with drugs...Psychiatric Medication Prevents Worsening Depression?
Psychiatric medication is being promoted by Big Pharma as THE way to handle depression, despite dangerous and even lethal side effects. Martha Rosenberg, writing for OpEd News declares, “A good chunk of pharma’s $4.5 billion direct-to-consumer advertising has...The Dangers of Antipsychotics
Antipsychotics (also known as neuroleptics) are psychiatric drugs used to control psychosis such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Thorazine and Haldol are brand names from “the old days” but Zyprexa and Risperdal are the common brand names we see advertised...
Creating Juvenile Zombies, Florida-Style
Miami Herald Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style May 28, 2011 By Fred Grimm They’re children of the new Florida ethic. Zombie kids warehoused on the cheap in the state’s juvenile lock-ups. Kept quiet, manageable and addled senseless by great dollops...TIME Magazine Slams Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Elderly
Drugging the Vulnerable: Atypical Antipsychotics in Children and the Elderly By Maia Szalavitz Thursday, May 26, 2011 | 59 Comments Pharmaceutical companies have recently paid out the largest legal settlements in U.S. history – including the largest criminal...
Antidepressant Drugs Scam Revealed
Are antidepressant drugs a scam? Gwen Olsen is a former representative for Big Pharma. She reveals the truth behind the pharmaceutical industry’s drug promotion in her new book Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher.1 In this Washington Times interview, Ms. Olsen states “…I...An Epidemic of Psychiatric Drugs Not Mental Illness
Just as the polio vaccine pretty much wiped out any further cases of the disease, you would think depression and other mental ailments would disappear when Prozac and other “wonder drugs” came on the market more than twenty years ago. This is not the case. In fact,...Juvenile Delinquency and Antipsychotic Drugging
Juvenile delinquency is a troubling phenomenon, made all the more challenging by the current trend to treat at risk kids with dangerous antipsychotic drugs. In an article by John Kelly written for YouthToday , this alarming information was reported, “A...State Hired Psychiatrists Paid by Drug Companies
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...Florida Orders Sweeping Review of Psychiatry's "Big Guns"
“the head of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice ordered a sweeping review of the department’s use of antipsychotic medications” Palm Beach Post Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids By Michael...Stay Tuned: Pharma Funded Florida Psychiatrists Turning kids into "Zombies"
Palm Beach Post Post investigation: Anti-psychotics in juvie jails Saturday, May 21, 2011 For some girls in custody at a state camp in Okeechobee, medications made the bookends of the day: Risperdal and trazadone and pills whose names were so long and complicated that...2011 Lake Wales Vigil-In the name of Gabriel Myers and the Right to Informed Consent
The Candlelight Vigil in Lake Wales was Organized by CCHR Florida ally, Pastor John Donaldson and his wife, Cheryl Donaldson. Pastor Donaldson gave a moving speech about parents and children’s rights to be fully informed. Other speakers included Pastor Melvin...Contact CCHR Florida
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