by CCHR Florida | Oct 19, 2012 | Psychiatric Drugs
Designer drugs, Smiles, K-2, Spice, and more, are responsible for the deaths of some of our most talented celebrities, young women and men and behind it all, we need to find out where are these drugs coming from.
by CCHR Florida | Aug 31, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Today, 4 million children begin their school day by taking a small yellow pill, Ritalin, to control their hyperactivity. Since 1990, there has been a 700% increase in the use of the stimulant. And more than 2.5 million prescriptions for anti-depressants were written for pre-schoolers and adolescents.
by CCHR Florida | Aug 31, 2012 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The Affordable Health Care Act plans to place even more resources into a field which not only fails to preserve mental health, but is destroying lives. The faith being placed in psychiatry and their drug treatments might be broken if full investigations were made following the horribly senseless killings and suicides by those prescribed such drugs.
by CCHR Florida | Aug 24, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
It is true that children can be inattentive, unfocused, fidgety and hyperactive. Children are not adults and should not be expected to behave like one in class or any other place. Boys especially can have a lot of energy but it doesn’t mean they have a “mental disorder.”
by CCHR Florida | Aug 13, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The expanding mental disorders list has many concerned. Even some psychiatrists look upon this broadening of their field dubiously. The American Psychiatric Association wants the industry’s guide to be changed, as witnessed in the upcoming new edition of their Bible,...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 13, 2012 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
This past weekend there was a mass shooting in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Six people plus the shooter were killed. A few weeks earlier, James Holmes shot and killed twelve people and wounded fifty-eight others in a movie theater in Colorado. Five years ago the deadliest mass shooting of all occurred at Virginia Tech, where thirty-two people were killed and many others were injured. And finally, no one has forgotten the shooting that occurred at Columbine over ten years ago.
by CCHR Florida | Jun 15, 2012 | Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Autism has become a diagnosis that is more prevalent in the U.S and the use of psychotropic drugs poses a threat to the well-being of these children.
by CCHR Florida | Mar 5, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Many people don’t know about special education and the disproportionate number of black teenagers, especially African American boys who are placed in these classrooms. What do we know about special education? It is a $60 billion industry. When it is misused, black...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 20, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
In today’s world of over-specialized and drug-infused medicine, doctors hand out pills for everything, often prescribing drugs without regard to side effects on patients’ general health. Dentists use mercury, which may preserve teeth but is highly toxic to the rest...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 20, 2012 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
It is well known that people with ADHD may be at risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior. But in the 1950s and 1960s children daydreamed and stared out the window during school, or barely sat still while their teacher droned on about subjects the child had no interest...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 27, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders
We would all agree that child mental health is an important issue in society. Recent trends might lead us to believe that mental illness is on the rise, and that modern “science” is now properly labeling the countless “mental disorders” that children, adults and the...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2012 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
In Science Daily of March 12, 1997, a press release states medical researchers found a positive link between patients with ADHD and specific Thyroid levels. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Peter Hauser, Psychiatrist, warns “The correlation...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 9, 2012 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders
An alarming report was issued by the FDA in 2007 regarding people with ADHD and possible cardiovascular risks. In February of 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration released a report to all drug manufacturers that were involved in the production of medication to...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 23, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The latest methods of and new definition for “psychiatry”, have changed. The “modern” bio-chemical psychiatrists rely on seeing patients for a mere ten minutes or so, deciding which meds to prescribe, and sending them on their way. this leaves the patient, searching...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 7, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The subject of child mental health has become a world-wide tragedy. The vested interests of both the psychiatric profession and big pharmaceutical companies have co-opted child mental health into a money-making proposition. There are documented dangers to flooding a...