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Using Opioids Can Cause Depression
According to a new study conducted by Jeffrey Scherrer, an associate professor of family and community medicine at St. Louis University in Missouri, men and women who take prescription opioids for more than a month are at risk of developing depression. Dr. Sherrer’s...
Teen Suicides Increasing Due to Mental Health Treatment
Mental health experts claim they need more money to stem the rising number of teenage suicides but there is much evidence showing that the medications prescribed to prevent suicide are indeed what are causing the rising statistic. Yet psychiatrists continue to assert...
Why the Secrecy? Was Oregon Shooter on Psychiatric Drugs?
Signs clearly point to Oregon community college (Umpqua Community College) shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer having had a background involving psychiatric treatment. Harper-Mercer’s mother had difficulties in raising her son. She discussed her problems with co-worker...
Is there An Antidepressant / Autism Link?
A new study shows a connection between women who take antidepressants in the last 6 months of pregnancy and an increase of children born with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics concluded that “Use of...
Dangerous Trend: Antidepressant Use In Children Soaring
The number of children prescribed antidepressants is on a steep upward trend. In 2004 there was a fall in the use of these drugs after warnings of suicidal risk. But between 2005 and 2012, the increase shot up by more than fifty percent in the UK alone. The same study...
Mass Shooting Incident Averted
Brad Kenneth Bartelt, charged recently with “aggravated assault, terroristic threatening, possession of explosive material and carrying a firearm in a publicly owned facility” was also, according to himself, taking psychiatric and pain medication. The 47 year old man,...
Psychiatrists Say Being Neurotic is Great – Now You’re a Creative Genius!
Psychiatrists like to promote the idea that we’re all capable of going crazy and displaying psychotic behavior out of the blue. While admitting they have no idea what causes all the invented disorders of the brain and mind they have created over the years, they are...
Baker Acting 7 year-olds
Florida’s mental health law, the Baker Act, gives law enforcement the right to detain someone, restrain them in a police vehicle using force as needed and take them to a designated psychiatric facility. An individual can be detained against their will for up to 72...
Brain Damage Caused By ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, “works” by creating an intense seizure or convulsion in the patient. This assault on the brain causes a temporary coma and flat-lining of brain waves, which is a sign of impending brain death. After several (or only one) of these...
The Baker Acting of Children – A Florida Tragedy
What's it really like for a kid in Florida when he or she gets Baker Acted? How about their parents? These stories are hard to imagine but they actually occur. A little girl named Lee, age 8, began to show some difficult behavior at home and her mother spent a lot of...
Psychologists Exposed as Key Players in U.S. Torture Programs
The American Psychological Association states that “Our mission is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.” How embarrassing to discover that some former APA presidents and other...
Psychiatric Child Abuse
Psychiatrist Peter Breggin asserts the psychiatric drugging of children is nothing but child abuse. He remarks that in the past, abuse of vulnerable members of society was largely justified based on “moral, religious, patriotic or ethnic grounds.” But today’s child...
Paxil's Recipe For Success: Fraudulent Study & False Claims
A report on the drug trial results for the antidepressant drug Paxil (Seroxat in the UK) was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) in 2001 under the title “Study 329”. The authors of the study stated paroxetine is...
Involuntary Commitment of Children on Faulty Diagnosis
The newest version of the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual - the psychiatric "bible" of invented mental disorders) would be laughable were it not so dangerous. For instance, when a person is involuntarily committed for mental evaluation under the Baker Act in...
ADHD Medications a Popular College High
Is it any surprise that drugs to treat supposed psychiatric disorders are now popularly abused? The very idea that misbehavior, restlessness or plain old boredom in school is a mental illness has led to predictable abuse in older kids, many of whom have never been...
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