Teen Suicides Increasing Due to Mental Health Treatment
Mental health experts claim they need more money to stem the rising number of teenage suicides but there is much evidence showing that the medications prescribed to prevent suicide are indeed what are causing the rising statistic. Yet psychiatrists continue to assert...Antidepressants and Violence: The Clear Connection
The idea that antidepressants cause violent behavior has been a concern for years. A study published late last year in Sweden found convincing evidence that this concern is warranted. The evidence showed that young adults from 15 to 24 years old who were currently on...Florida School Children Learning Disabilities
False Labeling & Parental ConsentChildren are being placed in “Special Education” under a number of different categories. The Federal regulation, that determines who gets placed in Special Education classes and what type of education they are entitled to, is the...Are Mass Shootings on the Rise?
Recently, there has been some debate about whether mass shootings are on the rise or not. Studies have been done using different kinds of criteria thus resulting in different answers. One study includes gang killings and shootings in the home due to domestic...Was Robin Williams Tragedy About Depression or About an Industry?
The tragedy of Robin Williams’ suicide may have repercussions the mental health industry did not predict. If mass-shootings, where youth kill others, while on psychotropic drugs is not enough to cause a widespread investigation of SSRI’s deadly effects, perhaps the...Do Anti-depressants Cause Suicides Attempts? – Bad Science and Bad Press
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...Gun Violence and Psychiatric Medication
How often, despite the concern of many, are psychiatric medication and gun violence linked, especially in the mass media? It is rare to find even a passing mention of this connection. This is unconscionable, considering that 90% of all multiple-victim violence (from...GSK’s Epileptic Seizure Drug Potiga Won’t Cure Alcoholics
A Boston University School of Medicine researcher, Clifford Knapp, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, got some press recently by claiming that Potiga, a GlaxoSmithKline drug used as an anti-convulsant to suppress partial epileptic seizures in patients, might be...Dementia Can Be Reversed Without Psychiatric Drugs
It seems that today aging gracefully is becoming a thing of the past. There are more and more cases of Alzheimer’s instead. Alzheimer’s is only one form of dementia, but it seems to be the most common one as of late. Stories of aging parents not recognizing their...More People on Antidepressants Means More Profits for Drug Companies
A report just came out from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stating that many of the world’s depressed or unhappy people live in developed countries where antidepressant use has skyrocketed. This poses the question, why would people who live...Children Should Never Have to Go Through Paxil Withdrawal
The side effects of Paxil, a popular prescribed anti-depressant drug, are well known. They include insomnia, anxiety, seizures, hallucinations and suicidal thoughts. Paxil withdrawal is a clinically recognized condition for those wishing to stop taking the drug; it’s...Antidepressants Are Prescribed As If They Are Candy
Remember the old doctor’s saying, take two aspirin and call me in the morning? Today, the saying has become take an antidepressant and see me in three weeks. Whether you are depressed or not, antidepressants are prescribed readily. Antidepressants are dangerous...Boys Taking Risperdal Disfigured with Gynaecmastia – Enlarged Breasts
Most parents would be appalled at the prospect of their young son growing size 38D cup size breasts. Johnson and Johnson, makers of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, apparently are not appalled as they continue to sell the drug and promote it for off-label use...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...Contact CCHR Florida
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