Twitter a Tool for Mental Health Surveillance
Most people would agree that social media has made the world a different place. Twitter and Facebook can be useful tools for communication. Like most anything, both have good points and bad points. It is fun for many to get to know their favorite celebrities via...
Psychiatry’s New Schizophrenia Test – More Fake Science
A company named SACCADE Diagnostics has developed a new eye movement testing procedure called SaccScan which claims to diagnosis schizophrenics by studying their eye movements. Their spokesman is Mr Madhu Nair, a technology entrepreneur experienced in developing...Synthetic Drugs Destroying Lives
Synthetic drugs, sold under the euphemistic term “bath salts” and “incense” have caused an endless array of psychotic behavior. According to psychiatrist Daniel Bober, these substances are stimulants. Users have experienced psychosis, paranoia and agitation. Those...Postpartum Depression + Risperidone +DC Car Chase = Death
Miram Carey, a dental hygienist who lived in Stamford, Conn., was shot to death in her car by Washington D.C. law enforcement personnel on Oct. 3rd 2013 following a high speed chase along streets leading from the White House to the Capitol Building. Her one year old...No Benefits for Children Labeled with ADHD
Millions of American children have been labeled with ADHD because of their inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive behavior. Approximately twenty million children are taking mind-altering drugs like Ritalin. Has anyone stopped to wonder how so many kids could have...Obesity Screening Is Dangerous to Your Health
One third of Americans are believed to be obese and another third are thought to be overweight. This is clearly a national problem, but the American Medical Association has recently classified obesity as a disease. As a result, there will be more focus on obesity...Diabetes Diagnosis and Psychiatric Drug Connection in Children
A diabetes diagnosis in a child may be directly linked to the use of anti-psychotic medication. In a study recently published in JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) it was revealed that kids on these pharmaceuticals are 3 times more likely to end...Mental Disorder Tests Designed to Sell Antidepressant Drugs
Mental disorder tests have been designed and streamlined to quickly find citizens who can be given a diagnosis of “depression” and then a prescription for one or more antidepressant drugs. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that one in ten...Teenage Suicide and Anti-Psychotic Drugs
Teenage suicide rates have risen sharply and alarmingly over the past decade. This can be attributed to one fact alone: the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to children and young adults. The pretended concern of psychiatrists for the mental health of our children...Treatment for Internet Addiction Unsubstantiated
Internet addiction was a term coined in 1995 as a joke. Today it is almost twenty years later and the Bradford Regional Center in Pennsylvania will be offering the first hospital-based treatment program for Internet addiction. This really is a joke as the basis for...Atypical Antipsychotics Harming Florida Medicaid Kids
Florida Medicaid is in the news again as a new investigation into the over prescription of atypical antipsychotic drugs for treating symptoms in very young children was just launched at the Federal level by the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Health...College Students in Danger from Stimulant Abuse
Like it or not, drugs and alcohol have always been a part of college life. Most college students use these recreationally and some go one step further and become dependent on one or the other or both. Some students have also taken amphetamines, otherwise known as...Don’t Become a Victim of Psychiatric Fraud
The profession of psychiatry has successfully established themselves as “experts” in the field of mental health and matters of the mind over the past thirty of forty years. They have also made the public think that “mental disorders” are just like any real...ECT Sugar Coated and Promoted to the Uninformed
ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) was recently promoted as a benign psychiatric treatment making a great comeback according to an article in USA Today that was repeated in many newspapers throughout Florida. Today electroconvulsive therapy is done with patients hooked...Contact CCHR Florida
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