by CCHR Florida | Nov 3, 2010 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; is it real? ADHD has become a buzz word, often used to describe children and even adults who are creative, easily distracted or unable to limit their behavior or thoughts to a single task or situation. It has become a...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 3, 2010 | Psychiatric Disorders
What is the source of ADHD? Does anyone know for a fact? Psychiatrists will list out the many symptoms, but where is the information that shows where those symptoms are coming from? Where is the test? Keeping that in mind, in an article entitled “8 ADHD Culprits...
by Diane Stein, President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida | Apr 3, 2026
Introduction Florida’s children are at the center of an urgent and growing crisis — not one of mental illness, but one of systemic psychiatric overreach, parental rights violations, dangerous drug prescriptions, and the misuse of state law. The Citizens...
by Diane Stein, President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida | Apr 3, 2026
Introduction: A Nation Heavily Medicated The United States has become one of the most heavily medicated nations in the world when it comes to psychiatric drugs. Approximately one in six Americans (close to 17% of the population) is taking some form of psychotropic...
by Diane Stein, President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida | Apr 2, 2026 | Opinions & Reports
Somewhere in Florida today, a child will be handcuffed by a police officer, placed in the back of a squad car, and driven to a locked psychiatric facility; not because the child committed a crime, but because a school administrator decided the child needed a mental...
by Diane Stein, President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida | Mar 31, 2026 | Opinions & Reports
Executive Summary Florida’s Baker Act, the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, authorizes law enforcement, health professionals, and courts to involuntarily detain individuals experiencing a mental health crisis for up to 72-hour psychiatric examinations. The...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 11, 2024 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Drugs
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died due to drugs and the efforts to prevent drug abuse have not stopped this crisis. But underneath it all is a hidden tale of addiction, violence and the greed of those who profess their intention to help. The War on Drugs The...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 19, 2023 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Parental Rights
If you were to read the news or do a simple Google search for mental health and children, you’d be bombarded with stories feigning a mental health crisis among children in the United States, demanding change. However, these stories are spun by the same people...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 14, 2022 | Mass Violence
More than 30 studies, drug regulatory agency warnings and expert opinion link psychotropic drugs to violent and suicidal behavior. According to a report, “Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence & Suicide”, written and released by the Citizens Commission on Human...
by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2021
Free webinar and conversation with Dr. Ben Miraglia to explain a physiological cause to child “ADHD” symptoms. About this event While childhood Sleep Disordered Breathing is underdiagnosed, the awareness of it is growing. The manner in which a child grows...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 20, 2021 | Suicide & Violence
Spending in the mental health market has increased by 52.1% since 2009 yet U.S. suicide rates hit a 50-year historical high. In 2018, there were an estimated 1.4 million suicide attempts and more than 48,000 deaths by suicide, making it the tenth leading cause of...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 23, 2021 | Mental Health Screening, Suicide & Violence
Spending in the mental health market has increased by 52.1% since 2009 yet U.S. suicide rates hit a 50-year historical high. In 2018, there were an estimated 1.4 million suicide attempts and more than 48,000 deaths by suicide, making it the tenth leading cause of...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 1, 2021 | Mental Health Screening, Suicide & Violence
Predicting & Preventing Suicide In 2018, there were an estimated 1.4 million suicide attempts and more than 48,000 deaths by suicide, making it the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.[i] Recent world events have placed a tremendous amount of...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 2, 2021
Free webinar and conversation with Dr. Ben Miraglia to explain a physiological cause to child “ADHD” symptoms. While childhood Sleep Disordered Breathing is under diagnosed, the awareness of it is growing. The manner in which a child grows and develops is...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 20, 2021 | Psychiatric Drugs
By far one of the most insidious addictions is one that is started with a doctor’s prescription pad — for example opioids and psychotropics. The myriad of negative side-effects of psychotropic drugs has often been reported. There is one aspect that has not...