by CCHR Florida | Nov 12, 2013 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Apparently, it is common for “mentally ill” patients to not take their psychiatric meds as often as recommended. However, a recent study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that severely “mentally ill” patients take their meds more often when given a...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 5, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Adderall abuse and addiction has gotten mixed into the drive to succeed and perform well in USA high schools and universities. Adderall is a Class 2 Narcotic, an amphetamine in the same class as cocaine. It can be very addictive Reportedly, more than 6.4 million...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 31, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Diagnosing children with hyperactivity symptoms has become a lucrative practice for the pharmaceutical industry. Shire Pharmaceuticals is one such company with big plans for our children. Spokesmen for this multi-billion dollar industry propose that a child’s...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Mental disorder tests have been designed and streamlined to quickly find citizens who can be given a diagnosis of “depression” and then a prescription for one or more antidepressant drugs. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that one in ten...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Internet addiction was a term coined in 1995 as a joke. Today it is almost twenty years later and the Bradford Regional Center in Pennsylvania will be offering the first hospital-based treatment program for Internet addiction. This really is a joke as the basis for...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Florida Medicaid is in the news again as a new investigation into the over prescription of atypical antipsychotic drugs for treating symptoms in very young children was just launched at the Federal level by the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Health...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 6, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Like it or not, drugs and alcohol have always been a part of college life. Most college students use these recreationally and some go one step further and become dependent on one or the other or both. Some students have also taken amphetamines, otherwise known as...
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 | Sep 3, 2013 | Elderly, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Since 2004 a group called the American Psychiatric Foundation has been promoting and marketing mental health awareness in high schools and middle schools using its trademarked educational program called Typical or Troubled? Claiming that one in four Americans will...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 29, 2013 | Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
These days one is led to believe that there are an awful lot of adults and children suffering from ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and an endless list of other “mental disorders.” The mental health system routinely diagnoses “disorders” but offers no cures. ...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
DSM V, psychiatry’s Bible of mental disorders, has been published to an array of ridicule from within and without the psychiatric community. This latest edition of the DSM has concocted mental disorders such as Skin Picking Disorder, Hypersexual Disorder, Compulsive...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | Children and Teens, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Mental health in America is ramping up. President Obama’s goal is to increase depression screenings for adults and behavioral assessments for kids. This is despite psychiatry’s dismal record of treatment and increased incidents involving school violence and other...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
It is estimated that fifteen percent of all children have at least one “mental health disorder” per the criteria in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders). Fifty or so years ago, “mental disorders” were virtually unheard of and psychiatry...
by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Hyperactivity supposedly causes weight gain. According to a study recently conducted on two groups of men aged 41, it was discovered that those who had been diagnosed as ADHD carried almost 20 extra pounds, compared to those men free of the psychiatric label. But...
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...