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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 4, 2013 | Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs
Since twenty school children and six adults were killed just before Christmas last year in a mass shooting in Newtown, CT, discussions of gun control and more access to mental health services are in the news daily. There is talk of bans on assault weapons and how our...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 4, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders
Looking into what is PTSD is revealing. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is defined on the U.S. National Library of Medicine website as a potentially debilitating anxiety disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic experience. War veterans often have it....
by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2013 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
New Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/CCHRflorida?feature=mhee Most people are unaware that the leading cause of Depression is an underlying thyroid problem. The FDA places severe warnings on Antidepressants, including suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
by CCHR Florida | Jan 22, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Drugs
Many years ago honest medical research was done for the purpose of creating drugs to cure diseases and other ailments that were wreaking havoc upon society. Think about where we would be today if quinine hadn’t been found to cure malaria, or what we would do without...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 7, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
There have been 22 International Drug Regulatory Agency Warnings saying that psychiatric drugs cause violence, mania, psychosis and even homicidal ideation. The conditions that can be brought about by taking these drugs are, to say the least, serious problems in...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 7, 2013 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Some feel the only way of helping children with depression is the prescribing of barely tested and dangerous drugs, many of which are not recommended for children in the first place. These drugs may have disastrous results, as has been proven again and again. It seems...