by CCHR Florida | Oct 28, 2013 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
A company named SACCADE Diagnostics has developed a new eye movement testing procedure called SaccScan which claims to diagnosis schizophrenics by studying their eye movements. Their spokesman is Mr Madhu Nair, a technology entrepreneur experienced in developing...
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 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Synthetic drugs, sold under the euphemistic term “bath salts” and “incense” have caused an endless array of psychotic behavior. According to psychiatrist Daniel Bober, these substances are stimulants. Users have experienced psychosis, paranoia and agitation. Those...
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 7, 2013 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Drugs
Most parents would be appalled at the prospect of their young son growing size 38D cup size breasts. Johnson and Johnson, makers of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, apparently are not appalled as they continue to sell the drug and promote it for off-label use...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2013 | Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
The high suicide statistics found among our military is alarming. The fact that soldiers are traumatized by committing acts of war is not surprising. Who among us could kill and watch one’s fellow soldiers killed without consequences to his peace of mind? But the...
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 | Oct 4, 2013 | Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
One third of Americans are believed to be obese and another third are thought to be overweight. This is clearly a national problem, but the American Medical Association has recently classified obesity as a disease. As a result, there will be more focus on obesity...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 23, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
A diabetes diagnosis in a child may be directly linked to the use of anti-psychotic medication. In a study recently published in JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) it was revealed that kids on these pharmaceuticals are 3 times more likely to end...
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 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 17, 2013 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Teenage suicide rates have risen sharply and alarmingly over the past decade. This can be attributed to one fact alone: the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to children and young adults. The pretended concern of psychiatrists for the mental health of our children...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2013 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Dissatisfied with their less-than-lion’s share of mental care profits, psychiatrists in the 1960s decided to step up their infiltration of society. In a strategically-planned (and secretly documented) ploy, they willfully moved in on the media, education and health...
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...