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 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 | 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 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 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 2, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
A few weeks ago, the world watched Japan in horror, as everyone saw the devastating results of a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami and now a potential nuclear radiation crisis. One can’t imagine what it must feel like to be in this situation. The mental...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 29, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
Is there a link between psychiatric medicine and violent behavior? This connection was reported in our post Psychiatric Drugs Do Cause Harm: “Of the 1937 total case reports of violence toward others, there were 387 cases of homicide, 404 physical assaults, 27...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 28, 2011 | Elderly, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
A recent article from The American Lawyer Academy discusses the continued unethical and dangerous use of psychotropic drugs on seniors. Rather than providing seniors with the care and compassion one would expect, such “care” often takes the form of strong psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 23, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE AND CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE HARM TO CHILDREN FROM UNWARRANTED DRUGGING Attorney and author John Whitehead will address the public about the right to Informed Consent during the annual statewide...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 16, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
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 Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and...