by CCHR Florida | Jul 9, 2009 | Disabled Persons
Sun Sentinel Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem July 1, 2009 By: Howard M. Talenfeld and Maria E. Abate The use of dangerous prescription medications for children and adults in residential and group home facilities...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 1, 2020 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Observed during July every year, National Minority Mental Health Month is supposed to raise awareness on mental health issues and research into the topic reveals numerous articles on how minorities are “underserved”. However, information published by the Citizens...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 20, 2019 | Acadia, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Sequel, Universal Health Services
Universal Health Services (UHS), which owns a chain of for-profit psychiatric facilities in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, has agreed to pay $127 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil probe into alleged fraud. The settlement is subject to...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 31, 2019 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Sequel, Universal Health Services
Universal Health Services (UHS), which owns a chain of for-profit psychiatric facilities in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, has agreed to pay $127 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil probe into alleged fraud. The settlement is subject to...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 25, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has teamed up with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers in what has been called a “genocide-for-profit” scheme. Native American children are being removed from their homes, placed into foster care homes...
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 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Is it any surprise that drugs to treat supposed psychiatric disorders are now popularly abused? The very idea that misbehavior, restlessness or plain old boredom in school is a mental illness has led to predictable abuse in older kids, many of whom have never been...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 7, 2014 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
(Heather Lascano, CEO, Neuro Touch Inc.) The afternoon was rather warm, almost uncomfortably so. The parking lot was just starting to clear following the bus and parent carpool line activity. The office staff was already chatting about the evening plans and upcoming...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 21, 2012 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
When an associate professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University, Dr. Fugh Berman, was asked by two students if they should take a powerful antipsychotic to help them sleep, she was outraged. The young people had not even been given such simple advice as “drink...
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 | Jul 29, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
If you wish to know the truth about psychiatry, prepare yourself, because it is disturbing to face the facts about how human beings are being treated by mainstream psychiatry. Liberally prescribing psychotropic drugs for more than two decades including “off-label”...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 8, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Miami Herald Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style May 28, 2011 By Fred Grimm They’re children of the new Florida ethic. Zombie kids warehoused on the cheap in the state’s juvenile lock-ups. Kept quiet, manageable and addled senseless by great dollops...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2011 | Children and Teens
Could Hope Witsell’s suicide have been prevented? The mental health counseling she received without her parent’s knowledge is an example of the dangers inherent in leaving parents out of the picture. Hope’s story is an excruciating tale of bullying by her...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 25, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse
Punjwani first came under scrutiny when it was revealed he had prescribed several psychiatric drugs – some of which were linked to an increased risk of suicide among children – to 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, who hanged himself at his foster home in 2009....
by CCHR Florida | Feb 25, 2011 | Children and Teens, Suicide
If there is one thing that I believe we can all agree on, it’s that children committing suicide due to psychotropic medication is unacceptable and must stop. CCHR Florida has been meeting with many Florida families to get this important message to them....