Psychiatric Drugs Replaced by a Walk in the Woods?
The American Psychiatric Association recently approached the subject in an article called “Healing the Mind With Nature: Another Tool for Psychiatry” published in their May 3rd 2017 online edition of Psychiatric News. The article cited one practicing psychiatrist who...
CCHR Florida Steps Up Campaign to Protect the Elderly from Harmful Baker Acting
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, stepped up a campaign launched in 2016 to educate the elderly on their rights under the mental health...
Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?
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...Why Even the FDA Was Forced to Admit ECT Machines are High Risk
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...
CCHR Demands Investigation into Link between Antidepressants and Teen Suicides
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog organization dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, is demanding an investigation into the link between antidepressants and teen suicides....
Drugging Native American Kids: Big Money Maker in South Dakota
The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has teamed up with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers in what has been called a “genocide-for-profit” scheme. Native American children are being removed from their homes, placed into foster care homes...
Museum Targeting Psychiatry as an “Industry of Death” Helping to Expose Rights Violations in Florida
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, has held over 100 events and toured more than 3,000 people through the Psychiatry: An Industry of...Sandy Hook Shooter’s Psychiatrist Arrested
On December 14th 2012 Adam Lanza attacked students and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with an AR-15 rifle leaving 20 children and 6 adults dead. There have been two recent news stories related to the Adam Lanza case. One concerns the...
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...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...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...
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...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....
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...Contact CCHR Florida
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