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Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

  It is good news that a conference was just held in the Vatican to discuss why psychotropic drugs are being increasingly prescribed to young children and whether the clinical trials support this increase.  This conference was sponsored by the Pontifical Council...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Early Intervention – A Fraud with a Hidden Agenda

by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

  Early intervention into the mental and emotional lives of children was given governmental go ahead by Connecticut state lawmakers recently with the passage of Bill 972 “An Act Concerning the Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health of Youths.”...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

DSM V: Laughingstock of Scientific Thinkers

by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

DSM V, psychiatry’s Bible of mental disorders, has been published to an array of ridicule from within and without the psychiatric community. This latest edition of the DSM has concocted mental disorders such as Skin Picking Disorder, Hypersexual Disorder, Compulsive...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | Children and Teens, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Mental health in America is ramping up. President Obama’s goal is to increase depression screenings for adults and behavioral assessments for kids. This is despite psychiatry’s dismal record of treatment and increased incidents involving school violence and other...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Time for Parents to Question Mental Health Disorders and Diagnoses

by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

It is estimated that fifteen percent of all children have at least one “mental health disorder” per the criteria in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders).  Fifty or so years ago, “mental disorders” were virtually unheard of and psychiatry...

Hyperactivity and Weight Gain

by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Hyperactivity supposedly causes weight gain. According to a study recently conducted on two groups of men aged 41, it was discovered that those who had been diagnosed as ADHD carried almost 20 extra pounds, compared to those men free of the psychiatric label. But...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Elderly, Fraud, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Depression in elderly patients is commonly treated with the use of psychiatric drugs, especially when these seniors live in assisted living situations or nursing homes. The rate of depression, one might assume, would increase when the elderly are far from family and...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

What is Anorexia? Mental Treatment vs. Physical Causes

by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2013 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

What is anorexia? The free online medical dictionary defines anorexia nervosa as “an eating disorder usually occurring in adolescent females, characterized by refusal to maintain a normal minimal body weight, fear of gaining weight or becoming obese, disturbance of...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Psychiatric Drugs Made Colorado Shooter Violent

by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2013 | Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Last summer James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater and killed twelve people and wounded more than fifty others. Mainstream media didn’t give any logical motives and did not even ask the right kind of questions. Doesn’t anyone wonder how a graduate...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Psychiatry’s Push for Mental Illness Results in Disregard for Real Disease

by CCHR Florida | Apr 8, 2013 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

The number of “mental disorders” has grown exponentially since they were first collectively published in the early fifties.  Since Prozac became famous more than thirty years ago, the number of people on psychotropic drugs has correspondingly multiplied as well.  One...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Benzodiazepines Can Cause Dementia and Other Serious Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | Apr 1, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Psychiatric drugs such as Xanax and Valium are pretty much on the same level of notoriety as Prozac and Zoloft.  However, Xanax and Valium are not antidepressants but are benzodiazepines.   Benzodiazepines have sedative and hypnotic effects.  They are widely...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Designer Drugs and Street Drugs Have Roots in Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | Mar 12, 2013 | Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference

Mental Health Meds DO Cause Suicide and Violence

by CCHR Florida | Feb 18, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

School massacres have been happening for almost fifteen years now if one regards Columbine in 1999 as the first one of note.  Mass shootings and murder-suicides date back much earlier.  It certainly appears that massacres by young men have been occurring in increasing...
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