Psychiatric Drugs Archives – Page 32 of 32 – Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR

Florida’s Own Olympic Champion

by CCHR Florida | Dec 30, 2010 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Michael Phelps, an Olympic Gold Medal winner, has become a symbol of heroism for families across America! As a child, Michael, never sat still, never stopped asking questions, just wanting to go from one thing to another. His mother was told he had ADHD and agreed to...

Irrational Behavior and Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Dec 6, 2010 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs

Violent behavior and Psychiatric drugs have a proven link. Specifically, these are SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) drugs, anti-depressants similar to Prozac. Their brand names also include Celexa, Lexapro, Luvox, Paxil, and Zoloft. Although use...

FDA Bans Psychiatry’s Research Drug and Other Fake Pot Products

by CCHR Florida | Dec 2, 2010 | Psychiatric Drugs

FDA Bans Psychiatry’s Research Drug5,6,7,8 – K210,11 and Other “Fake Pot” Products. On Thanksgiving Eve the DEA used its emergency powers to ban K2 and other “fake pot” products that mimic the effects of marijuana. The action by the Drug...

Catholic News Service-Drug company greed puts kids at risk

by CCHR Florida | Nov 22, 2010 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs

Catholic News Service Drug company greed puts kids at risk, US speaker tells Vatican meeting By Rita Fitch Nov 19, 2010 http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=9117 VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church may be the only organization that...

Big Pharma Worries About Online PR

by CCHR Florida | Nov 16, 2010 | Psychiatric Drugs

Big pharma has a PR problem. This was a topic of concern at ExL Pharma’s Digital Pharma conference last month. Specifically discussed, were the lawsuits filed against AstraZenca concerning side effects from their antipsychotic, Seroquel. An article in the...

Feds Eye High Prescribers

by CCHR Florida | Nov 16, 2010 | Psychiatric Drugs

U.S. Grassley’s investigation started with a Miami Psychiatrist who wrote $43 Million worth of prescriptions from 2004-2009. It was calculated that psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March...

Marketing Over Safety

by CCHR Florida | Oct 28, 2010 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs

Did you know that drug companies make 14.6 BILLION dollars annually on just antipsychotics alone? That’s more than any other class of drug. It didn’t used to be that way. Antipsychotics used to be prescribed only for the severely “mentally ill” but now according to...

MedWatch

by CCHR Florida | Aug 14, 2009 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs

MedWatch Written by Mental Health Advocate and Executive Director of The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida Laurie Anspach Psychiatry would have us believe that children can be justifiably used as guinea pigs for their experimental use of mind-altering...