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Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week Sheds Light on Dangerous Psychiatric Drug Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2020 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

In 2019 the Florida legislature adopted a resolution recognizing the first week in May every year as “Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week”. Tardive dyskinesia is marked by involuntary movement of the lips, tongue, jaw, fingers, toes and other body parts. Tardive...

Psychiatric Drugs and Side Effects – The Unseen Hand Behind Violence in America

by CCHR Florida | Jan 12, 2021 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Close to 17% of Americans are taking psychiatric drugs with side effects such as acting aggressively, being angry, or violent and acting on dangerous impulses. According to the United Health Foundation there were over 1.2 million acts of violent crime in 2018...

Experts Warn – Psychiatric Drugs May Cause More Harm Than Help

by CCHR Florida | Feb 2, 2021 | Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs

Studies have suggested that psychiatric drugs may do more harm than good, especially in the long-term. Antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics, are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis, principally in schizophrenia but also in a range of other...

America’s Hidden Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs, Addiction and Suicide

by CCHR Florida | Jan 5, 2021 | Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

There is growing concern that psychiatric drugs, fueled by exorbitant mental health spending, are being over prescribed and are causing more harm than what is being publicized. [1] The pharmaceutical companies and the psychiatric community pocket some $62 billion on...

CCHR Calls Attention to Drugging of Millions of Children on the Heels of ADHD Awareness Month

by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2020 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs

There are over 6.7 million US children being prescribed psychiatric drugs with more than 3.3 million of these children prescribed drugs for ADHD. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated the protection of children,...

Tens of Thousands of Children Sent for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination in Florida

by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights

Each year on October 10th World Mental Health Day is observed for the stated purpose of raising awareness on mental health issues. This year the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a watchdog organization, hosted a seminar on mental...

Mental Health Watchdog Warns Against Psychotropic Drug Self-Care During Pandemic

by CCHR Florida | Jul 23, 2020 | Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Based on documented studies, the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a watchdog organization that investigates and exposes abuse within the mental health industry, is warning the public about the dangers of psychotropic drug...

Mental Health Month: A Marketing Campaign to Fuel the Psychiatric Industry

by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2020 | Mental Health Screening

Since 1949 the month of May has been touted as Mental Health Month for the stated purpose of educating people on mental health issues. However, the real motive behind this marketing comes into question when messages such as “the 7 biggest parenting mistakes that...

Mental Health Month Marketing Feeds Lucrative Psychiatric Industry

by CCHR Florida | Apr 29, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs

With global sales reaching $76 billion a year, psychiatric treatment is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world and according to IMS Health, a company that provides information, services and technology for the healthcare industry, there are over 78 million...

Six-year-old Allegedly Forcibly Drugged in Psychiatric Facility: CCHR Demanding Answers

by CCHR Florida | Apr 12, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Parental Rights

With all the media coverage and outrage over six-year-old Nadia Falk’s forced stay and alleged drugging in a Florida psychiatric facility this February, a deeper question is raised. What is the justification for the psychiatric drugging of children, and especially the...

Surge in Children on Dangerous Psychiatric Drugs Not Just a U.S. Problem

by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2019 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Today in the United States approximately 7.2 million children between the ages of 0 to 17 are using prescription psychiatric drugs, and almost half of them are on drugs due to being labeled with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This epidemic of...

Another Psychiatric Drug, Another Act of Senseless Violence: the All-Too Often Finding in Mass Killings CCHR reports

by CCHR Florida | Sep 1, 2019 | Baker Act, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Montgomery County Coroner has confirmed that the alleged Dayton, Ohio shooter had the benzodiazepine, alprazolam, in his system along with cocaine, alcohol and other substances.[i] In its report, Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence and Suicide, the mental health...

A Warning that cannot be ignored: Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence CCHR calls for Urgent Government Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Aug 14, 2019 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

The spate of recent mass shootings has prompted the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) to reiterate the urgent need for State and a Federal government investigation into the irrefutable link between psychotropic drugs and...

Getting it Right About Antidepressants, CCHR and a Global Concern About Psychiatric Drug Dependency and Risks

by CCHR Florida | Aug 6, 2019 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Current debates in the media about antidepressants raise important issues—global antidepressant use is soaring, but the once-touted “miracle pills” now carry international drug regulatory agency warnings that potentially link them to suicides and acts of...

Study Proves Psychiatric Diagnoses are Worthless

by CCHR Florida | Jul 31, 2019 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Suicide

Neuroscience News has commented on a study published in Psychiatry Research, which concluded “psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless.” Researchers from the University of Liverpool analyzed 5 key chapters of the latest DSM, a controversial edition of...