CCHR Warns About Antidepressant “Nasal Spray,” Esketamine (Spravato), Use on Veterans
By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog June 26, 2019 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is concerned that President Trump is being misled about a nasal spray depression drug, esketamine (Spravato) being the answer to...
CCHR: Veterans Get Damaging Mental Health Deal— Suicides increase & VA spends $1M on unsafe electroshock devices
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog, is calling for an investigation into suicide-inducing psychotropic drugs and electroshock following a recent report showing that the suicide rate of veterans aged 18 to 34 jumped more...
Florida Bills Could Force Taxpayers To Fund Harmful Psychiatric Services for First Responders
Current Florida statutes require that there be clear and convincing evidence of mental or nervous injury to determine benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation law for Florida’s first responders. However, recent bills calling for revisions to the standard for...Baton Rouge Cop Killer on Psychiatric Drugs
Was Baton Rouge cop killer Gavin Long protesting police brutality by murdering three policemen, or was it yet another result of psychiatric drug side effects? This young veteran told his relatives and friends that he had post-traumatic stress disorder, and according...
Psychiatrists Want More Research with Psychedelic Drugs?!
Part One Psychiatrists have started fooling around again with research using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), Psilocybin (a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms”) and MDMA (Ecstasy). In March of this year, writing in the...
Psychiatry Admits Failure
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman reflects on American Psychiatry’s quandary in a recent NY Times Op Ed piece: “Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. “With few...Deep Brain Stimulation – Another Psychiatric Torture Treatment Emerging
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...Military Suicide Still Ignored by the VA
A recent field hearing by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held in Roswell, NM introduced a new plan to help the VA provide medical help to veterans in rural parts of the country by allowing them to get medical care in their local private hospitals rather than...ELDER ABUSE – BE CAREFUL OF WHOM YOU TRUST
Unfortunately, as we get older, we begin to notice changes in our body and don’t have the same confidence as we did when we were younger. So, sometimes we call upon others for help. For me, that was a big mistake when I asked my niece to take me to the hospital. You...Bullying and Intimidation in Schools
Bullying has become a threat to our children’s happiness and welfare. Despite bullying laws in Florida and elsewhere, the intimidation continues. In a 2013 Florida statutes states that Bullying “includes cyberbullying and means systematically and chronically...Suicide Statistics in Soldiers Higher than Ever
The high suicide statistics found among our military is alarming. The fact that soldiers are traumatized by committing acts of war is not surprising. Who among us could kill and watch one’s fellow soldiers killed without consequences to his peace of mind? But the...Designer Drugs and Street Drugs Have Roots in Psychiatry
Back in the day, it seems like there were only a few drugs used that fall under substance abuse. Going as far back as the sixties, LSD, heroin, valium, and cocaine are names that most people are familiar with. Today, in addition to these drugs, there are many new...Our Soldiers put at more risk
Experiments trying out ecstasy effects on soldiers labeled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) were promoted in an article in the military newspaper “Stars and Stripes” on Nov 20th. Ecstasy (or MDMA) is a party drug popular in the 1980’s and 1990’s and...Natural Disasters Do Not Cause Mental Illness
The mental health community would have us believe that those who live through a natural disaster are now prone to mental illness. This is only and soley a means of captializing on others’ hardships. The facts are clear, there is not one medical test to evidence a mental disorder and stress is just that, stress.
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