Psychiatrists Want More Research with Psychedelic Drugs?!
Part One Psychiatrists have started fooling around again with research using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), Psilocybin (a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms”) and MDMA (Ecstasy). In March of this year, writing in the...
Psychiatry Admits Failure
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman reflects on American Psychiatry’s quandary in a recent NY Times Op Ed piece: “Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. “With few...
CCHR Helps New Mexico Legislature Prevent Drugging of School Kids
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...
Tardive Dyskinesia: Disability Caused by Psychiatric Medication
Psychiatric drugs have long term side effects that can make a person’s life miserable. Tardive dyskinesia is one condition caused by many antipsychotic drugs. The victim of this condition grimaces, thrusts his tongue, swings his jaw and makes chewing motions. These...
Mental Health Reform Bill Strengthened
Ironically, the “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,” legislation first introduced in 2013, was supposedly in response to the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Possibly legislators Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson, who reintroduced the...
ADHD Research Proves Movement Helps Kids Think
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...
Could Your Child’s Psychological Disorder be a Food Allergy?
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...
Latest Mental Illness Gene Study Targets Artists
Psychiatrists are always eager to get their hands on artists and provide them with the very best in drug and electric shock treatments. The idea that artists must be crazy in order to produce art combines well with the idea that when the artist’s madness gets the best...
New Study Proves People on Psychiatric Drugs Commit More Homicides
A new research paper called “Psychotropic drugs and homicide: A prospective cohort study from Finland” was just published in the June 2015 edition of the journal World Psychiatry. Dr. Jari Tiihonen a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinsksa Institutet in...Top Five Psychiatric Drugs Linked to Violence
To assert psychiatry is careless in prescribing drugs for its various diagnosed disorders is a monstrous trivialization of the problem. Many of their drugs have been directly linked to suicide and violent behavior, sometimes resulting in murder on a grand scale. In a...
Psychoactive Drugs Played a Hand in South Carolina Church Murders
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, age 21, carrying his .45-caliber handgun in a fanny pack, sat in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study for about an hour. Then he took out...
Do Legal Psychiatric Drugs Encourage Illegal Synthetic Drugs?
Could the booming use of illegal synthetic “designer” drugs be related in any way to the enormous quantity of legally, authorized anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and stimulants prescribed and sold in ever increasing amounts around the world? Psychiatric drugs and...
American Psychiatric Association’s New Logo Reveals Its Sordid History
May 2015 at the opening session of its annual meeting in Toronto, The American Psychiatric Association released its new logo designed to symbolize and position modern psychiatry as a science of mind, brain and body. APA’s Psychiatric News announced “The logo depicts...
Are Foster Children Psychiatric Guinea Pigs?
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...Contact CCHR Florida
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