by CCHR Florida | Feb 6, 2015 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Baker Act is the name of the mental health law in Florida and it covers all aspects of mental health including involuntary examination and commitment. This is the law that is initiated to send a person against their will for involuntary examination at a...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 29, 2015 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
The truth about the actual business model of big pharma and psychiatrists has been researched and documented at a new level of detail by a well respected physician and scientist from Denmark. Peter C Gøtzsche, is Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis, and...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 19, 2015 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs
It is very common to hear about someone getting on in years and developing dementia or going senile. Many say the mind is the first thing to go. It’s long been considered just to be a part of aging. Though this can be true in some cases, these days there are...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 6, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
ADHD medications are detrimental to the mental and emotional health of the children taking them. The conclusion that ADHD drugs have dubious results was reached in studies funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the NIMH (National Institute of Mental...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 12, 2014 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Convicted felons are diagnosed as mentally ill at a rate 2-4 times that of the non-criminal population. It would be easy to make the supposition that anyone who commits a crime is in some degree mentally ill. And not many would argue. But criminal behavior does not...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 10, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental manifestations, one might do well to take a closer look at what passes for...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 4, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Yes, they can. Many people end up receiving psychiatric medications and other treatments when undiagnosed and untreated medical conditions are the true cause of their so-called mental illnesses. Dr. Ronald J Diamond is a Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 4, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental manifestations, one might do well to take a closer look at what passes for...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 10, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Florida Medicaid has rolled out a provision hidden in the pages of the Obamacare bill and parents of kids in 13 Florida counties now have health clinics right in their public school buildings. Back in March this statement was made about Obamacare, “But we have to...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 12, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Some psychiatrists and mental health workers complain that the very subject of mental health, as well as mental health patients themselves, have a social stigma to overcome. The mental health workers say there is not enough mental health coverage due to this “stigma,”...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 3, 2014 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Robin Williams, a greatly beloved American comedian, actor and filmmaker, committed suicide at his home in Tiburon, Ca. on August 11th. How does something as unexpected as this occur? In late June, Williams had gone for “rehab” at the Hazelden Addiction...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 18, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
A recent field hearing by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held in Roswell, NM introduced a new plan to help the VA provide medical help to veterans in rural parts of the country by allowing them to get medical care in their local private hospitals rather than...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 18, 2014 | Alternatives, Disabled Persons, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The ranks of those incarcerated in state prisons have increased in unprecedented numbers over the past 10 years. Not surprisingly, courts demand that mental health screening and “treatment” (most often drugs) are given to those deemed mentally unstable. Recent studies...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 18, 2014 | DSM, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Antidepressants have been proven in court to cause homicidal behavior in some patients. In 2001, a federal jury in Cheyenne, Wyoming ordered SmithKline Beecham to pay 6.4 million dollars to relatives of a Paxil user who committed murder and suicide while on the drug....
by CCHR Florida | Aug 12, 2014 | Disabled Persons, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
In 2004 the FDA required black box warnings on all antidepressants to alert the public that suicide attempts and suicide itself were side effects of antidepressants. Now a “scientific” study is claiming that these FDA warning labels on antidepressants caused a rise in...