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...Foster Kids Abused with Psychiatric Drugs
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...
Warning: Your Pediatrician is now Encouraged to Look for Mental Health Disorders in Your Child
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...Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Resurgence Despite Brain Damage
ECT seems to be enjoying a renaissance of use. Perhaps those in the “mental health” industry are hedging their bets for the future, when outraged adults (having been assaulted with psychiatric pharmaceuticals during childhood) choose to sue for damages. After all,...Florida School Sends Bullying Victim to Mental Hospital
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...
Baker Act Is Harmful Not Helpful
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...The End of Psychiatry: Drugging VS. Understanding
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...The Joke is on Us… Psychiatric Students Study Seinfeld
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...Psychiatrists Admit Popular Sedatives are Dangerous for the Elderly
The Dec 17th issue of “The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry” (JAMA Psychiatry) contained a paper describing the over prescribing of a class of sedatives or tranquilizers called benzodiazepines. “Benzos” are all related in chemical...ADHD Medications Proven Harmful in Three Separate National Studies
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...Florida Parents – Learn Informed Consent – It Might Save Your Child
A Seminole County mother narrowly escaped losing permanent custody of her child in a case where immediate use of Florida’s Informed Consent laws might have avoided the ordeal she did experience. Sarah Markham is a vegan and a practicing Seventh Day Adventist. She...
Drive Your Health 2015
Source: http://www.recallcenter.com/drive-your-health-in-2015/The Mental Illness and Criminality Connection
Convicted felons are diagnosed as mentally ill at a rate 2-4 times that of the non-criminal population. It would be easy to make the supposition that anyone who commits a crime is in some degree mentally ill. And not many would argue. But criminal behavior does not...Mental Health and Diet
One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental manifestations, one might do well to take a closer look at what passes for...Contact CCHR Florida
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