by CCHR Florida | Nov 11, 2015 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
The Baker Act (Translation) John Eddy Sarmiento, Reporter: Since 1971 in the State of Florida there is a law that considers the possibility that any person could be mentally ill. Rosa Prieto, Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): The...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 23, 2015 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse
Death of a child while under care of psychiatric hospital personnel reeks of the barbarism common when the lunatic asylums of the 19th and 18th centuries flourished in Europe. Yet the use of deadly restraint involving children in psychiatric asylums is ongoing....
by CCHR Florida | Aug 26, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD are often medicated to keep them from fidgeting. But a new study of youngsters in the pre-teen and teen years showed that those who moved the most exhibited much better cognitive performance. In fact, the more intensely and...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
When you think of allergies, you probably think of sneezing fits and itchy eyes. It might surprise you to know that there could be other, more dramatic symptoms. Nutritional consultant, Tarilee Cornish, advises that food allergies can create a host of apparent...
by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2015 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Medicaid coverage of foster kids has contributed to out of control psychotropic drugging of children as young as 12 months. Because “mental health” services are included in this coverage, there has been rampant abuse. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 2011...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2015 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Foster children are extremely vulnerable. Many have been uprooted continuously with no permanent place to call home. With personal belongings transported inside an empty trash bag, they have little, if any stability in their lives. Yet these children, desperately in...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 28, 2015 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Mental health disorders in a child are being diagnosed with more frequency than ever. The American Academy of Pediatrics states “Developmental screening is a regular part of comprehensive pediatric care, but physicians should routinely expand on that model to include...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 21, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Looking at a Questionable Treatment in a New Light Some astute researchers hypothesize youngsters’ creativity is being extinguished by Ritalin. Jeffrey Zaslow, reporter for The Wall Street Journal asks “whether the Ritalin Revolution will sap tomorrow’s work...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 24, 2015 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
Parents never quite know what might happen when they send their child off for a routine day of public schooling here in Florida. Alishia Montelongo went off to classes at Wolfson High School in the Duval County School District in Jacksonville, Fl. on Monday, March...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 12, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
SalusCare Inc. is just another mental health care arm stretching tentacles into an unsuspecting community, fishing for consumers. With a purpose couched in “help,” prospective clients are reeled in, fed psychiatric propaganda, diagnosed with one or several...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 6, 2015 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Baker Act is the name of the mental health law in Florida and it covers all aspects of mental health including involuntary examination and commitment. This is the law that is initiated to send a person against their will for involuntary examination at a...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 26, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Even mental health professionals admit the death nell of their profession is near. Decades of using drugs to treat invented mental illnesses has created skepticism within their own ranks. For example, Dr. Robert Berezin, a practicing psychotherapist, has this to say...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 19, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is teaching his students about psychiatric disorders through required watching of Seinfeld episodes. It sounds like a joke, but Dr. Tobia is completely serious. He states “When you get...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 6, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
ADHD medications are detrimental to the mental and emotional health of the children taking them. The conclusion that ADHD drugs have dubious results was reached in studies funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the NIMH (National Institute of Mental...