by CCHR Florida | Aug 26, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric drugs have long term side effects that can make a person’s life miserable. Tardive dyskinesia is one condition caused by many antipsychotic drugs. The victim of this condition grimaces, thrusts his tongue, swings his jaw and makes chewing motions. These...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 11, 2015 | ECT, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatrists are the first to admit they don’t really understand what causes the mental conditions they have labeled as disorders. They also freely admit they don’t really know why a particular drug or surgery “works” but they continue to theorize and experiment...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, age 21, carrying his .45-caliber handgun in a fanny pack, sat in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study for about an hour. Then he took out...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 10, 2015 | ECT, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
May 2015 at the opening session of its annual meeting in Toronto, The American Psychiatric Association released its new logo designed to symbolize and position modern psychiatry as a science of mind, brain and body. APA’s Psychiatric News announced “The logo depicts...
by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2015 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Medicaid coverage of foster kids has contributed to out of control psychotropic drugging of children as young as 12 months. Because “mental health” services are included in this coverage, there has been rampant abuse. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 2011...
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The American Psychiatric Association online newspaper, “Psychiatric News” proudly reported on April 16th, 2015 that “Psychotropics Lead List for Youth-Related Drug Poisoning Calls.” And indeed they do top the list. But the APA probably overlooked the fact they were...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 27, 2015
Often times people who seek help from psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health workers, are falsely diagnosed and forced to undergo unwanted and harmful psychiatric treatments, such as psychiatric drugs which are documented to cause serious side effects,...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 12, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series The first part of this series explored the suspension of psychiatric drug trials at the University of Minnesota due to the unethical and factually criminal behavior on the part of psychiatrists handling the program. But why did the university...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 4, 2015 | Baker Act, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Part 1 of a 2 Part Series On March 19th, 2015 psychiatric drug trials at the University of Minnesota were finally halted over a case that began in May of 2004 when Dan Makingson, participating in a test of a schizophrenia drug, committed suicide. The Minnesota State...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 19, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is teaching his students about psychiatric disorders through required watching of Seinfeld episodes. It sounds like a joke, but Dr. Tobia is completely serious. He states “When you get...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 4, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Yes, they can. Many people end up receiving psychiatric medications and other treatments when undiagnosed and untreated medical conditions are the true cause of their so-called mental illnesses. Dr. Ronald J Diamond is a Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 24, 2014 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Since the introduction of Thorazine in 1954 psychiatry and drug companies have rolled out a never ending stream of psychotropic drugs to replace the dramatic surgical procedures known as lobotomies. These so-called psychotropic medications have been called “chemical...
by CCHR Florida | May 26, 2014 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
How often, despite the concern of many, are psychiatric medication and gun violence linked, especially in the mass media? It is rare to find even a passing mention of this connection. This is unconscionable, considering that 90% of all multiple-victim violence (from...
by CCHR Florida | May 12, 2014 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Florida medical marijuana just got a boost last week when the Florida House and Senate passed its own medical marijuana bill ahead of the November 2014 ballot initiative vote in which the citizens of Florida will decide if they want medical marijuana to be legal in...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 21, 2014 | Baker Act, Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Jails and Psychiatric Hospitals – Both Bad for Mentally Ill Practically every paper around the country is reporting the story that more mentally ill people are now found in jails than in psychiatric hospitals and mental health facilities. A recent report from the...