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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 LaForgia May 21, 2011 Florida...
Is Suicide Prevention Helpful or Harmful?
The idea of suicide prevention is a good thing as no one wants a fellow human being to take their life instead of getting the help they need. However, what prevention techniques are available that actually work? Hope Witsell, an eighth-grade student in Ruskin,...
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 Hill and...
Suicide, Mental Health Counseling and Parental Consent
Could Hope Witsell’s suicide have been prevented? The mental health counseling she received without her parent’s knowledge is an example of the dangers inherent in leaving parents out of the picture. Hope’s story is an excruciating tale of bullying by her...
Pablo Picasso-About Children
Just a quick quote and a link to a pledge to help in preventing to stop psychiatric harm and abuse of children. "...We should say to each of them; Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have...
Can Fish Oil Fight Depression?
Consuming fish oil may fight depression. Current studies are encouraging, and began in earnest when scientists noted inhabitants of countries with high fish consumption had lower rates of depression. According to an ABC News report, “At Sheffield...
Light a candle for Tyler–Help others get informed about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs
Light a candle for Tyler Help others get educated about the harmful effects of psychiatric medication! Many parents throughout the state and throughout the country are not fully informed about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs. Their basic right...
Financial Ties to Drug Companies
A medical doctor should be a person who can be trusted to administer good care with the patient’s health and well-being as the primary concern. Is that necessarily the truth these days? Doctors and psychiatrists get paid by drug companies to run clinical...
Stevie Nicks: The biggest mistake I ever made was going to see a psychiatrist
NewsWeek My Favorite Mistake: Stevie Nicks May 01, 2011 by Stevie Nicks The biggest mistake I ever made was giving in to my friends and going to see a psychiatrist. It was in the mid-1980s, and I had just gotten out of Betty Ford. I was feeling buoyant...
Sex Offender Treatment? Sex with Patient
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 sexual...
Bullying is Not the Cause of Teen Suicide
Haylee Fentress and Paige Behnke were best friends and eighth grade students at a rural Minnesota middle school. They recently both hung themselves while on a sleepover together. The moms as well as relatives were interviewed on the Today Show and bullying was the...
DSM: Is it Valid?
The DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is THE book used by those in the psychiatric profession to describe classifications and diagnosis of mental illness. But is the...
School Kids in Handcuffs- CCHR Florida "is all over the case"
School Kids in Handcuffs Reveal Teacher Bondage April 25, 2011, 7:05 PM EDT By Amity Shlaes April 26 (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Another week, another tot gets his rights violated. A few days before Easter police in Maspeth, New York, handcuffed a first...
Risperdal Drugging of Children Enforced by Law
It seems unbelievable that the state could enforce dangerous Risperdal drugging of children, but this is exactly what happened recently in Detroit. Earlier this month Child Protective Services, accompanied by a swat team equipped with tanks and automatic rifles...
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