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Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

by CCHR Florida | Jun 30, 2014 | Baker Act, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Each time a citizen goes on an unpredicted shooting spree we hear pleas for more involuntary commitment laws and programs. Psychiatry has been playing a fiddle tune entitled “If he’d only gotten proper mental health care in time this tragedy could have been avoided”...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Psychotropic Drugs – Lobotomies In a Pill

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...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Psychiatry Kidnapped Justina Pelletier

by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2014 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

Justina Pelletier is a teenager who was taken away from her parents unnecessarily, forced into psychiatric care and spent nine months in a locked psychiatric ward.  This situation is a parent’s worst nightmare.  Any parent would be outraged and horrified if this...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Psychiatric Drugs – Creating Crime and Profit in Prisons

by CCHR Florida | May 26, 2014 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Prisons have become one of the main distribution points for psychiatrists peddling psychotropic drugs and for drug companies happy to supply all these medicines to a growing population of criminals. It’s quite a successful business model. Prisoners get screened when...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Florida Slides toward Legal Pot and Psychiatric Commitments

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...

Alternative Treatments for PTSD are Safer

by CCHR Florida | May 2, 2014 | Alternatives, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Drugs

No one will argue that being in the military, especially during deployment is extremely stressful.  During times of war, soldiers see and do things that they just can’t forget.  Many come home and are not the same as when they left.  Injuries, trauma and brain...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Medical Marijuana – Bad News for Florida

by CCHR Florida | Apr 16, 2014 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Come the November election, Florida might drift down the hazy medical marijuana trail blazed by California, Washington, Colorado, the District of Columbia and 17 other states. The issue has been positioned as the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative,...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Sandy Hook Shooting Demands Thorough Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Apr 11, 2014 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

It’s been about sixteen months since the tragic Sandy Hook shooting.  Following the unnecessary deaths of twenty children, aged six and seven years old, plus six adults, one would think that something would have been done by now to prevent another similar incident. ...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Ft.Hood Shooting – Psychiatrists Can’t Hide Ambien Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | Apr 9, 2014 | Fraud, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Another shooting incident happened this week at the Army base in Ft. Hood, Texas. A US soldier named Ivan Lopez age34 shot and killed three fellow soldiers and wounded 16 others before killing himself. In early press reports officials revealed that last month Lopez...
PCP Laced Marijuana: Creating Psychosis and Psychiatric Commitment

PCP Laced Marijuana: Creating Psychosis and Psychiatric Commitment

by CCHR Florida | Mar 24, 2014 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs

Marijuana laced with PCP is making a dangerous comeback in the US and the psychosis it generates in users is causing an increase in admissions to emergency rooms and psychiatric facilities. PCP (Phencyclidine) was developed in the 1950’s as a surgical anesthetic. Its...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Bipolar Children – A Drug Business In Disguise

by CCHR Florida | Nov 25, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

A book published in 2013 has revealed how psychiatrists and drug companies using the labels “bipolar children” and “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD have caused unimaginable harm to children while reaping great profits for themselves. Author...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

Antidepressants Are Prescribed As If They Are Candy

by CCHR Florida | Oct 18, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Remember the old doctor’s saying, take two aspirin and call me in the morning?  Today, the saying has become take an antidepressant and see me in three weeks.  Whether you are depressed or not, antidepressants are prescribed readily.    Antidepressants are dangerous...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

No Benefits for Children Labeled with ADHD

by CCHR Florida | Oct 4, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Millions of American children have been labeled with ADHD because of their inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive behavior.  Approximately twenty million children are taking mind-altering drugs like Ritalin.  Has anyone stopped to wonder how so many kids could have...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

New APA President Fails to Defend Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2013 | DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

The new president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, has been very vocal in the past few months since he took office.  He has written several articles attempting to shoot down critics of psychiatry and to promote his profession.  He fails...
Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?

ECT Sugar Coated and Promoted to the Uninformed

by CCHR Florida | Aug 28, 2013 | ECT, Mental Illness, Rights

ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) was recently promoted as a benign psychiatric treatment making a great comeback according to an article in USA Today that was repeated in many newspapers throughout Florida. Today electroconvulsive therapy is done with patients hooked...
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