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Medicaid - Government funded insurance for the poor. A whistle-blower informed U.S. Senator Grassley’s office and the Miami Herald last year that a Miami psychiatrist wrote close to 100,000 prescriptions for Medicaid patients over 18 months, about 153 prescriptions...
Jail Psychiatrist Arrested and Fired
Orlando Sentinel State: Jail psychiatrist billed for unnecessary treatment at 2nd job December 10, 2010 By Jeff Weiner Court records show a psychiatrist who saw patients at Orange County Jail before his arrest last week is accused of ripping off an insurance company...
Irrational Behavior and 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
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 Enforcement...
Electroshock Therapy’s Permanent Damage
Electroshock therapy still exists, despite a long-established record of permanent mental damage and memory loss. Psychiatrist Michael Corry is an opponent to this “therapy.” In his words: “Memory loss is the first obvious result. Other factors compromised include...
National Investigation of Top Prescribers
U.S. Senator Grassley's initial investigation focused on Miami psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil who wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March 2009. His prescriptions cost tax payers $43 Million from 2004-2009. On June 21, 2010 the...
WANTED by Jackson County Sheriff–Psychologist
A woman set beds on fire in motel rooms, then got committed to the Florida State Hospital (psychiatric). There she was met by a FSH employee, psychologist Jeffrey Lynn Benoit, who had sex with her (a felony), he married her while Benoit was still married to another...
Catholic News Service-Drug company greed puts kids at risk
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 can...
Big Pharma Worries About Online PR
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
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 2009....
Big Pharma Targets Mothers and Infants
The Mother’s Act, or Mom’s Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research and Support for Postpartum Depression Act has one bit of truth in its full name. It does support depression. Just ask Amy Philo.1 When Amy’s newborn had a severe reaction to a formula given...
Alienist Investigation Continues
It started with the high prescribing Miami alienist* who wrote 284,908 prescriptions over the past six years which cost Florida taxpayers $43 million. See here: https://cchrflorida.org/blog/tag/dr-fernando-mendez-villamil/ *Alienist - Psychiatrist; derivation...
ADHD—Fact or Fiction?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; is it real? ADHD has become a buzz word, often used to describe children and even adults who are creative, easily distracted or unable to limit their behavior or thoughts to a single task or situation. It has become a...
ADHD and the Environment
What is the source of ADHD? Does anyone know for a fact? Psychiatrists will list out the many symptoms, but where is the information that shows where those symptoms are coming from? Where is the test? Keeping that in mind, in an article entitled “8 ADHD Culprits...
Marketing Over Safety
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...
Help stop psychiatric harm and abuse of children
Help stop psychiatric harm and abuse of children. · Sign the pledge Email your Senators and Representative. · Find who they are PLACING OUR CHILDREN IN THE HANDS OF PSYCHIATRY Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Subcommittees in the House and Senate have worked on two versions...
MedWatch
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...
Child-welfare panel: Drugs misused on foster kids
Florida's mental health system for foster kids relies far too often on drugs, with little oversight, according to a draft report on the suicide of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1183698.html BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER...
Regarding Florida Foster Care children, 2009
Many of you may have been watching the Florida newspapers recently and seen the article that spoke about two parents who just adopted two children. They came forward on the day that Governor Crist was talking about adoption. The two parents were appalled at how many...
Gov. Charlie Crist urged to stop 'chemical restraint' of foster kids
Gov. Charlie Crist urged to stop 'chemical restraint' of foster kids http://ping.fm/7ho8j A pair of adoptive parents are urging Gov. Charlie Crist and lawmakers to stop the `chemical restraint' of children in state care. BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau...
Drug issue arises at Crist’s adoption roundtable
Drug issue arises at Crist’s adoption roundtable http://ping.fm/QW1JF The kickoff for Gov. Charlie Crist’s “Explore Adoption Day,” celebrating what the governor’s office calls record-breaking adoption rates in Florida, didn’t go quite as planned. Crist and Lt. Gov....
Don't bend the law when giving foster kids drugs
The Department of Children & Families' (DCF) study about the lackadaisical use of medication for children shows the agency is taking seriously its mission to protect kids. It should follow through with hefty sanctions for those who ignored the law. Miami Herald...
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem
Sun Sentinel Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem July 1, 2009 By: Howard M. Talenfeld and Maria E. Abate The use of dangerous prescription medications for children and adults in residential and group home facilities...
Consent for foster kids psychiatric drugs on rise
Florida Times Union More parents, courts approve medication; some fear they aren't informed decisions. By Brandon Larrabee Story updated at 12:24 PM on Monday, Jul. 6, 2009 TALLAHASSEE - As a task force examining the use of psychiatric drugs by foster children draws...
Study: Florida's psych drug rules for foster kids ignored
Miami Herald 07.07.09 A new state study found that child-welfare doctors and case workers aren't following the rules when it comes to the drugging of 6- and 7-year-olds in state care. BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- Child-welfare doctors...
How Children Feel on Psychiatric Medication including Prozac
YouTube video "How Children Feel on Psychiatric Medication including Prozac" Check it out and tell all of the parents you know:
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