by CCHR Florida | Apr 24, 2016 | Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The number of children prescribed antidepressants is on a steep upward trend. In 2004 there was a fall in the use of these drugs after warnings of suicidal risk. But between 2005 and 2012, the increase shot up by more than fifty percent in the UK alone. The same study...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2016 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatrists like to promote the idea that we’re all capable of going crazy and displaying psychotic behavior out of the blue. While admitting they have no idea what causes all the invented disorders of the brain and mind they have created over the years, they are...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 27, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Psychiatrist Peter Breggin asserts the psychiatric drugging of children is nothing but child abuse. He remarks that in the past, abuse of vulnerable members of society was largely justified based on “moral, religious, patriotic or ethnic grounds.” But today’s child...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 27, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
A report on the drug trial results for the antidepressant drug Paxil (Seroxat in the UK) was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) in 2001 under the title “Study 329”. The authors of the study stated paroxetine is...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 12, 2016 | Children and Teens, DSM, ECT, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric diagnoses have entered the vernacular, giving an easy way to explain behavior. “I’m ADD” is one of the more popular, excusing everything from a person being confused because of misunderstood directions, all the way to substituting Facebook time for...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 30, 2015 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric drug prescriptions for infants age 2 and younger have been rising at an alarming rate. The New York Times recently reported statistics obtained from the prescription data company IMS Health, the world’s leading health information and analytics company....
by CCHR Florida | Dec 6, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse
In May of 2015, The British Medical Journal published an article by Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, who asserts “We could stop almost all psychotropic drug use without deleterious effect.” Professor Gøtzsche questions...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2015 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Innocent lives have been lost to yet another madman with a gun, this time at a community college in Oregon. As rational people, we know there has to be a reason for the proliferation of school shootings and other mass murders. Some, including President Obama, have...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2015 | Alternatives, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman reflects on American Psychiatry’s quandary in a recent NY Times Op Ed piece: “Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. “With few...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 26, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 29, 2015 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
A new research paper called “Psychotropic drugs and homicide: A prospective cohort study from Finland” was just published in the June 2015 edition of the journal World Psychiatry. Dr. Jari Tiihonen a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinsksa Institutet in...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, age 21, carrying his .45-caliber handgun in a fanny pack, sat in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study for about an hour. Then he took out...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 16, 2015 | Psychiatric Drugs
Could the booming use of illegal synthetic “designer” drugs be related in any way to the enormous quantity of legally, authorized anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and stimulants prescribed and sold in ever increasing amounts around the world? Psychiatric drugs and...
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2015 | DSM, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatry is performing a balancing act with blinders on. With every new addition of the DSM, their absurdist theories on mental disorders steer them toward a resounding crash. Joachim Hagopian, a practicing licensed psychotherapist for over 25 years, has made some...
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The American Psychiatric Association online newspaper, “Psychiatric News” proudly reported on April 16th, 2015 that “Psychotropics Lead List for Youth-Related Drug Poisoning Calls.” And indeed they do top the list. But the APA probably overlooked the fact they were...