by CCHR Florida | Oct 18, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
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...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 15, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
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...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 4, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
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...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2013 | DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The new president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, has been very vocal in the past few months since he took office. He has written several articles attempting to shoot down critics of psychiatry and to promote his profession. He fails...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 3, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
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...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Early intervention into the mental and emotional lives of children was given governmental go ahead by Connecticut state lawmakers recently with the passage of Bill 972 “An Act Concerning the Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health of Youths.”...
by CCHR Florida | May 17, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) is due to be released this month. It has been published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) since 1952. Its purpose is to identify and classify “mental disorders.” In...
by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
National tragedies like the student massacres in Columbine, Colorado; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Newtown, Connecticut tend to revive state and national debates and legislation on mental health reforms. This often heated political discussion involves the involuntary...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2013 | Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Last summer James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater and killed twelve people and wounded more than fifty others. Mainstream media didn’t give any logical motives and did not even ask the right kind of questions. Doesn’t anyone wonder how a graduate...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 18, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs
School massacres have been happening for almost fifteen years now if one regards Columbine in 1999 as the first one of note. Mass shootings and murder-suicides date back much earlier. It certainly appears that massacres by young men have been occurring in increasing...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 14, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Of course no one wants another school massacre like the one that just occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary a couple of months ago. So how do we prevent such a tragedy from happening again? Some think having armed guards at schools will protect our kids. Others think...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 4, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders
Looking into what is PTSD is revealing. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is defined on the U.S. National Library of Medicine website as a potentially debilitating anxiety disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic experience. War veterans often have it....
by CCHR Florida | Jan 22, 2013 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
An answer to what is mental health appeared on January 16th in President Obama’s proposals to reduce gun violence in the United States. It could strongly be argued it is the wrong answer. First he calls for closing background check loopholes to try to keep guns out of...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 22, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Drugs
Many years ago honest medical research was done for the purpose of creating drugs to cure diseases and other ailments that were wreaking havoc upon society. Think about where we would be today if quinine hadn’t been found to cure malaria, or what we would do without...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 9, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
A recent article published in “Smart KIDS Learning Disabilities”, claiming that ADHD medication reduces criminal behavior is, without a doubt, a scandalous conscious effort to advocate the taking of psychiatric drugs, especially among young adults. Not only are the...