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Systematic Abuse in Florida UHS Facilities Brought To Light By Investigation

Systematic Abuse in Florida UHS Facilities Brought To Light By Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Baker Act, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Are UHS Psychiatric Facilities in Florida Motivated by Profit? In a word, yes. Universal Health Services (UHS), is a corporation that owns over 200 psychiatric facilities in the USA and it’s under investigation by various federal and state authorities for its careless...
The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

While some have linked school shootings to “lack of mental health services” and hint that there would be fewer such incidents if people were under the watchful eye of mental health specialists, the true facts are either buried or obscured. A recent Fox News report...
Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Universal Health Services

“Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits.” [1] That is how Rosalind Adams, BuzzFeed News Reporter, headlined her article written after a year-long...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Five more people have lost their lives to an out of control man under the care of a psychiatrist. Arcan Cetin had been diagnosed with ADHD, depression and autism. Records show that doctors were gravely concerned about their patient. [1] Unfortunately this concern was...
Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, psychiatrists report he has “treatment-resistant depression”. This patient is then a prime candidate for any experimental lunacy that the profession dreams up because the poor...
ECT: Documented Dangers

ECT: Documented Dangers

by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide & Violence

ECT is in the news again, with vested interests pushing this barbaric torture device as an actual “therapy” and attempting to broaden its use by sneaking it in through the 21st Century Cures Act. Disturbingly, this proposal – given new life through a complicated...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

Why Even the FDA Was Forced to Admit ECT Machines are High Risk

by CCHR Florida | Nov 17, 2016 | ECT, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Suicide & Violence

ECT Victims Speak Out Almost 6 years ago the FDA explored whether psychiatric electroshock machines should be considered to have the same risk to patients as powered wheelchairs and air purifiers. In January of 2011 an FDA advisory panel held an open hearing in which...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

21st Century Cures Act – Hidden Dangers

by CCHR Florida | Nov 17, 2016 | ECT, Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

The 21st Century Cures Act has a decent purpose to help those with life-threatening diseases by giving them previously unavailable treatment. For example, if someone has late stage cancer he or she could be treated with a relatively untried medication that may have a...
Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The “Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health” [1] calls for a massive expansion by the federal government for the funding and development of more psychiatric mental health treatment for Americans. The agenda statement runs over 5,000 words and cites 25 references from...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

14-Year Old Child Commits Suicide While On Prozac

by CCHR Florida | Oct 1, 2016 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

Jake Lynch, a healthy 14 year old British child was diagnosed with anxiety and put on Prozac in 2013. Just a few weeks later he committed suicide. His parents, Stephanie McGill and John Lynch were devastated. The grieving mother said  “My son had no history of...
Tweaking Crime Rate Numbers Through Baker Act Abuse?

Tweaking Crime Rate Numbers Through Baker Act Abuse?

by CCHR Florida | Oct 1, 2016 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening

We cringe when the crime rates soar in our city and rejoice when it plummets. Published statistics help us monitor what is going on in our neighborhoods, giving us a means to predict the future. Every day families scour the internet, researching the statistics of an...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

Big Pharma Hides Antidepressant Trial Suicides

by CCHR Florida | Sep 18, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

Whether teen suicide and anti-depressant drugs are related has been presented as a “controversial subject” by the psychiatric industry. But earlier this year the Telegraph of London squashed psychiatry’s apparent uncertainty. “Antidepressants can raise the risk...
New Study: Exercise Can Cure Depression & ADHD In Children

New Study: Exercise Can Cure Depression & ADHD In Children

by CCHR Florida | Sep 18, 2016 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Gregory Ramey is a pediatric psychologist and the executive director for the Center for Pediatric Mental Health Resources at The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Ramey is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Ohio...
Psychiatrists Complain They Get No Respect – Stats Prove It!

Psychiatrists Complain They Get No Respect – Stats Prove It!

by CCHR Florida | Sep 2, 2016 | Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Echoing 1970s comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s iconic one-liner, psychiatrists are complaining that they “get no respect”. 1 Why would this be? Really, it’s no mystery. By their own admission psychiatry attracts medical students with lower board scores and...
The Link Between Teen Suicide and Psychiatric Drugs

The Link Between Teen Suicide and Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Sep 2, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

Suicide is the leading cause of death for children age 15 to 24, and studies cite 90% of these teens had some type of “mental health disorder,” with the majority having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.1 The above facts were discovered in an online publication by...
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