by CCHR Florida | May 6, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
Light a candle for Tyler Help others get educated about the harmful effects of psychiatric medication! Many parents throughout the state and throughout the country are not fully informed about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs. Their basic right...
by CCHR Florida | May 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
A medical doctor should be a person who can be trusted to administer good care with the patient’s health and well-being as the primary concern. Is that necessarily the truth these days? Doctors and psychiatrists get paid by drug companies to run clinical...
by CCHR Florida | May 4, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
NewsWeek My Favorite Mistake: Stevie Nicks May 01, 2011 by Stevie Nicks The biggest mistake I ever made was giving in to my friends and going to see a psychiatrist. It was in the mid-1980s, and I had just gotten out of Betty Ford. I was feeling buoyant...
by CCHR Florida | May 4, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Highlands Today State: Take license from Sebring clinician By ROBERT BOYER | Highlands Today May 3, 2011 ARCADIA – The state of Florida wants to strip the professional credentials of a licensed mental health counselor from Sebring who was charged in 2010 with...
by CCHR Florida | May 4, 2011 | Children and Teens, Suicide
Haylee Fentress and Paige Behnke were best friends and eighth grade students at a rural Minnesota middle school. They recently both hung themselves while on a sleepover together. The moms as well as relatives were interviewed on the Today Show and bullying was the...
by CCHR Florida | May 2, 2011 | DSM
The DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is THE book used by those in the psychiatric profession to describe classifications and diagnosis of mental illness. But is the...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 27, 2011 | Children and Teens
School Kids in Handcuffs Reveal Teacher Bondage April 25, 2011, 7:05 PM EDT By Amity Shlaes April 26 (Bloomberg Businessweek) — Another week, another tot gets his rights violated. A few days before Easter police in Maspeth, New York, handcuffed a...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 26, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
It seems unbelievable that the state could enforce dangerous Risperdal drugging of children, but this is exactly what happened recently in Detroit. Earlier this month Child Protective Services, accompanied by a swat team equipped with tanks and automatic rifles...
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 | Apr 22, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
One of CCHR Florida’s most recent events was held at a school on the property of Jaymar Farms, Inc.. The school is part of a housing complex for the farm’s Hispanic migrant workers. More than 100 people came to our booth and were able to get a copy of the...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 22, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders
In nature we have all observed differences in animal behavior between the male and female of a species. One example is the stallion – a male horse – exhibiting highly spirited and active behavior, while the mare, a female horse, exhibits a more gentle and...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 22, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
Did you know that “the powerful billion-dollar drug industry designs and interprets studies to suit their interests”? Drug companies can hand pick the trials or studies of a particular drug to be published. In fact, drug companies are not even required to publish...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 19, 2011 | Children and Teens, ECT
Do psychiatrists use ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy) on children? In the 1950s, psychiatrist Lauretta Bender pioneered this unbelievable practice. According to a google groups article “In a 1954 follow-up study, two psychiatrists investigated 32...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 12, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
TWO OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS–AND A MEMORIAL TO GABRIEL MYERS International Civil Rights Advocate: Constitutional Attorney John W. Whitehead to speak at the Clearwater Candlelight Vigil in memory of Gabriel Myers and the Right to Informed Consent John...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 10, 2011 | DSM
Three Professional Psychiatrists Speak Out Against the Mental Disorders Manual In recent years, one hears teenagers casually diagnose their friends’ behaviors with bywords from psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Now in...