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Baker Act Relies On Faulty DSM Diagnostic System
With new bills proposing some scary, expansive changes to the Baker Act here in Florida, it's time for citizens and Florida State Legislators to take a good look at what is going on here. The Baker Act allows the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an...
The Danger of Psychiatric Diagnoses
Psychiatric diagnoses have entered the vernacular, giving an easy way to explain behavior. “I’m ADD” is one of the more popular, excusing everything from a person being confused because of misunderstood directions, all the way to substituting Facebook time for...
Antidepressants and Violence: The Clear Connection
The idea that antidepressants cause violent behavior has been a concern for years. A study published late last year in Sweden found convincing evidence that this concern is warranted. The evidence showed that young adults from 15 to 24 years old who were currently on...
Mental Disorder or Physical Illness?
There can be grave danger in psychiatric evaluation and diagnosis. For instance, a person physically ill may exhibit a seeming mental disorder, yet be completely sane. If a qualified medical doctor does not get to the patient before a psychiatrist does, the patient...
Abuse And Attacks In Florida’s Mental Hospitals
In June of 2014, twenty-seven year old Tuarus McNair, a mental patient at Treasure Coast Forensic Treatment Center, was punched repeatedly in the head by another patient during a fight. The hospital workers’ response to this brutal attack was unbelievable. Instead of...
Risperdal: Another Psychiatric Drug Ruining Lives
Risperdal is one of the so-called second generation antipsychotic drugs, touted to be safer than the older anti-psychotics. Manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutical unit, it is approved for schizophrenia treatment and bipolar disorder in...
Infants Being Given Psychiatric Drugs On The Rise
Psychiatric drug prescriptions for infants age 2 and younger have been rising at an alarming rate. The New York Times recently reported statistics obtained from the prescription data company IMS Health, the world’s leading health information and analytics company....
Psychiatry: Diagnosis Without Testing
For some reason, the standards for mental health practitioners are different from every other field of medicine. For instance, if your throat hurt, your doctor would probably take a culture from the back of your throat and tonsils to check for the presence of...
Is Nutritious Food an Alternative to Psychiatric Drugs?
Some psychiatrists are now discovering that nutrition might be able to handle symptoms that have been labeled as mental health disorders and that nutrition works better than psychiatric drugs. An article entitled “Food May Be a Tool to Consider When Helping...
Psychiatric Death and Injury Toll Increases
In May of 2015, The British Medical Journal published an article by Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, who asserts “We could stop almost all psychotropic drug use without deleterious effect.” Professor Gøtzsche questions...
Terrorists on Psych Drugs: Mass Shooters on a Grand Scale
What do many terrorists and school shooters in the US have in common? Apparently, both terrorists and school shooters are taking psychiatric drugs. When French Special Forces officers raided the hotel room of wanted ISIS terrorist Salah Abdelsalam in the Paris suburb...
Psychiatrists Still Love Their Electroconvulsive Therapy
At the most recent annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association two leading practitioners and promoters of electroconvulsive therapy (the modern name for applying electric shocks to a person’s brain using 225 to 450 volts) held a session to educate general...
Female Viagra – More Drug Danger in Sheep's Clothing
Flibanserin, touted as the “female Viagra” is, in actuality, another failed anti-depressant. Echoing a familiar refrain, researchers insist this drug “restores chemical imbalances in the brain.” Medical News Today reported: “While the exact mechanisms by which...
The Baker Act and Your Rights as Parents
The Baker Act (Translation) John Eddy Sarmiento, Reporter: Since 1971 in the State of Florida there is a law that considers the possibility that any person could be mentally ill. Rosa Prieto, Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): The...
Mental health worker gave patient Ecstasy in exchange for sex, police say
Wayne K. Roustan - Sun Sentinel Nov 2, 2015 A mental health worker at a state psychiatric facility in Pembroke Pines is accused of plying a recovering drug addict with Ecstasy so he would repeatedly have sex with her. Alicia Lashaun Davis, 31, of Miami Gardens, told...
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