by CCHR Florida | Jan 25, 2012 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Drugs
Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most commonly prescribed antidepressant medication. Their use has been associated with everything from worsening depression to homicidal or suicidal behavior. But yet another dangerous side effect of serotonin reuptake...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2012 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
In Science Daily of March 12, 1997, a press release states medical researchers found a positive link between patients with ADHD and specific Thyroid levels. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Peter Hauser, Psychiatrist, warns “The correlation...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2012 | Psychiatric Drugs
Researchers at the Emory School of Medicine have found real correlating data discovering that taking antidepressants, namely SSRIs, thicken the lining of your carotid arteries by 400 times normal. The carotid arteries are the arteries coming from your heart to your...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 16, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Rights
Parents send their children off to school every day in hopes of them getting a good education and growing up to be mature responsible adults. But what about child mental health? Is that something you want addressed at your child’s school? Are you aware of any sort...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 16, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Talking to children is a parent’s best defense against their child’s use of synthetic drugs. In a culture where psychiatry and Big Pharmaceutical companies have made drug use commonplace among our youth, it may be wise to take another look at the side effects not only...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 9, 2012 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders
An alarming report was issued by the FDA in 2007 regarding people with ADHD and possible cardiovascular risks. In February of 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration released a report to all drug manufacturers that were involved in the production of medication to...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 6, 2012 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The latest ploy by psychiatrists, and drug companies wishing to increase profits, is to use psychotropic drugs to treat children with a lingering strep infection. Absurd as this may sound, it is being done in some cases. Recent scientific research reveals that a...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 4, 2012 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Child psychiatry in the state of Florida has an unpleasant history. Juvenile delinquents and foster children alike have been the victim of misdiagnosis and over prescription by child psychiatrists with sometimes shady pasts. Dr. Dorval, a child psychiatrist hired to...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 27, 2011 | Children and Teens, Fraud
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 | Dec 20, 2011 | Children and Teens, Rights
When a mother in Michigan noticed that the pills being prescribed to her daughter were making her condition worse and not better, she stopped giving her daughter the medications. That’s when the real trouble began! When Child Protective Services found out that the...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Psychiatry knows that they are harming in the name of “Mental Health”. A recent article, in the “Psychiatric Times”, revealed that the psychiatric industry is well aware of the harms of psychiatric medication and has known, since at least 2004, about a medical test...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2011 | Children and Teens
The Psychiatric community would have parents believe that their children have mental health problems, yet, medical science does not support the psychiatric industry on mental health diagnoses. Psychiatrists admit, at an American Psychiatric Convention, that there are...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders
The answer is, “not so well,” according to recent investigations. Apparently what happens is this: children are first taken out of abusive or neglectful homes and put into the foster care system, presumably to be given the chance at better lives. So far, so good. ...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 9, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening
“Psychiatric medications are among the most widely prescribed and biggest-selling class of drugs in the US. In 2010, Americans spent $16.1 billion on antipsychotics to treat depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, $11.6 billion on antidepressants and...