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 | Jul 28, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
To answer the question whether or not antidepressants cause autism in pregnancy, we first turned to CNN’s article on the subject. In at least one study, it was shown that antidepressants increase the risk of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) in newborn children....
by CCHR Florida | Jul 20, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
It is not just in Florida one finds doctors medicating children, even toddlers, for behaviors long known as normal in children — shyness, restlessness, short attention spans, fear/grief when left by parents in a new school, daycare, etc. Britain now has concern...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 18, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Forty or so years ago, it would be safe to say no kids were on any psychiatric drugs. ADHD and bipolar disorder in kids was unheard of and most other children’s mental illness labels were nonexistent. Depending on your source, six to seven million children are now on...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 15, 2011 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Drugs
Today, many people are taking psychotropic drugs and have a problem tapering off of them. Mike Cleveland of Setting Captives Free runs into this problem with his parishioners on a regular basis. In an effort to help bring awareness of the alternatives to psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 13, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
A Wonderful Story From CCHR Florida. This is a wonderful story from a young man who was helped by CCHR Florida! His father and grandmother were educated, by CCHR Florida, on the FDA warnings regarding psychiatric drugs and the existence of non-psychiatric doctors who...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 11, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
It’s a given that any woman wants to have a healthy baby. It would follow that normally a mother-to-be would take any precaution necessary to make that happen. She would stop smoking and drinking alcohol, as it is common knowledge now that these cause birth defects,...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 11, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric treatment as practiced by the infamous Dr. Biederman and Dr. Timothy E. Wilens of Harvard University has done nothing to improve this profession’s ever dwindling credibility. Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey state in their NY Times article: “A...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 11, 2011 | Fraud
The June 26 Huffpost Politics article, A Depressing Story You Need to Read, takes a deeper look into the workings of Obamacare — and finds some unfortunate consequences. The proclaimed benefits to the taxpayer are not so great, while the drug industry becomes...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Disabled Persons, Psychiatric Drugs
The information on the harms of psychiatric drugging was of real value to these activists. One of the hardest issues they face on a grass roots level is that a parent with a child on psychotropic drugs receives disability payments as a financial incentive. We...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Check up on DJJ doctors The Palm Beach Post June 27, 2011 Anyone with an Internet connection can go online and see that Dr. Gold Smith Dorval is on probation with the Florida Board of Medicine and that his medical license was suspended because he stole money from...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 30, 2011 Miami-Area Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty for Role in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme WASHINGTON – A Miami-area psychiatrist pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Could stress with your teen lead to false psychiatric labeling? Jeromie Williams, in an article for the, Canada Pop Culture Examiner reports that “Research and records are showing that children and young adults are being diagnosed at higher rates every year with...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
For ages psychiatry was associated with Freud and all your problems were thought to be rooted in your childhood or from your mother. Psychiatric drugs came on the scene in the 1950’s and psychiatrists shifted away from talk therapy to focusing on the brain with drugs...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 1, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric medication is being promoted by Big Pharma as THE way to handle depression, despite dangerous and even lethal side effects. Martha Rosenberg, writing for OpEd News declares, “A good chunk of pharma’s $4.5 billion direct-to-consumer advertising has...