by CCHR Florida | Jun 15, 2011 | Baker Act, Children and Teens
Over 3000 separate incidences of children being escorted from school grounds to a psychiatric receiving facility and held in a secured ward, separate from their parents, and without parental consent, in one year. More than 3 children out of every 1000 Florida...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 8, 2011 | Children and Teens
CCHR Florida Youth Group Saturday’s Youth Group Event This week at CCHR Florida we launched our first CCHR Florida Youth Group Event, which included The Trinity Gospel Choir, WDHAN (Music group) Alycia Britt (Dancer) , Elaine Graham, Marina Young (singer...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 8, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Miami Herald Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style May 28, 2011 By Fred Grimm They’re children of the new Florida ethic. Zombie kids warehoused on the cheap in the state’s juvenile lock-ups. Kept quiet, manageable and addled senseless by great dollops...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 8, 2011 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs
Drugging the Vulnerable: Atypical Antipsychotics in Children and the Elderly By Maia Szalavitz Thursday, May 26, 2011 | 59 Comments Pharmaceutical companies have recently paid out the largest legal settlements in U.S. history – including the largest criminal...
by CCHR Florida | May 26, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Juvenile delinquency is a troubling phenomenon, made all the more challenging by the current trend to treat at risk kids with dangerous antipsychotic drugs. In an article by John Kelly written for YouthToday , this alarming information was reported, “A...
by CCHR Florida | May 25, 2011 | Children and Teens
Help Children Succeed In School Event Saturday, June 4rth, 2011 11am-4pm Music, Games and Fun for the Entire Family Address of the Event: 305 North Fort Harrison Ave Clearwater, Florida 33755 Bake Sale–Lemonade Sale–Music–Fun for the...
by CCHR Florida | May 24, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Palm Beach Post Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors By Michael LaForgia Monday May 23, 2011 In Florida’s juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug...
by CCHR Florida | May 23, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
“the head of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice ordered a sweeping review of the department’s use of antipsychotic medications” Palm Beach Post Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids By Michael...
by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Palm Beach Post Post investigation: Anti-psychotics in juvie jails Saturday, May 21, 2011 For some girls in custody at a state camp in Okeechobee, medications made the bookends of the day: Risperdal and trazadone and pills whose names were so long and complicated that...
by CCHR Florida | May 19, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
The Candlelight Vigil in Lake Wales was Organized by CCHR Florida ally, Pastor John Donaldson and his wife, Cheryl Donaldson. Pastor Donaldson gave a moving speech about parents and children’s rights to be fully informed. Other speakers included Pastor Melvin...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2011 | Children and Teens
Could Hope Witsell’s suicide have been prevented? The mental health counseling she received without her parent’s knowledge is an example of the dangers inherent in leaving parents out of the picture. Hope’s story is an excruciating tale of bullying by her...
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2011 | Children and Teens
Just a quick quote and a link to a pledge to help in preventing to stop psychiatric harm and abuse of children. “…We should say to each of them; Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years...
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 | 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 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....