CCHR Calling for Investigation of Link Between Suicides and Psychiatric Treatment
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog organization dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, is calling for an investigation into the link between the increasing number of suicides...
Teen Suicides Increasing Due to Mental Health Treatment
Mental health experts claim they need more money to stem the rising number of teenage suicides but there is much evidence showing that the medications prescribed to prevent suicide are indeed what are causing the rising statistic. Yet psychiatrists continue to assert...
Is there An Antidepressant / Autism Link?
A new study shows a connection between women who take antidepressants in the last 6 months of pregnancy and an increase of children born with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics concluded that “Use of...Dangerous Trend: Antidepressant Use In Children Soaring
The number of children prescribed antidepressants is on a steep upward trend. In 2004 there was a fall in the use of these drugs after warnings of suicidal risk. But between 2005 and 2012, the increase shot up by more than fifty percent in the UK alone. The same study...
Psychiatrists Say Being Neurotic is Great – Now You’re a Creative Genius!
Psychiatrists like to promote the idea that we’re all capable of going crazy and displaying psychotic behavior out of the blue. While admitting they have no idea what causes all the invented disorders of the brain and mind they have created over the years, they are...
Psychiatric Child Abuse
Psychiatrist Peter Breggin asserts the psychiatric drugging of children is nothing but child abuse. He remarks that in the past, abuse of vulnerable members of society was largely justified based on “moral, religious, patriotic or ethnic grounds.” But today’s child...Paxil's Recipe For Success: Fraudulent Study & False Claims
A report on the drug trial results for the antidepressant drug Paxil (Seroxat in the UK) was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) in 2001 under the title “Study 329”. The authors of the study stated paroxetine is...
The Danger of Psychiatric Diagnoses
Psychiatric diagnoses have entered the vernacular, giving an easy way to explain behavior. “I’m ADD” is one of the more popular, excusing everything from a person being confused because of misunderstood directions, all the way to substituting Facebook time for...Infants Being Given Psychiatric Drugs On The Rise
Psychiatric drug prescriptions for infants age 2 and younger have been rising at an alarming rate. The New York Times recently reported statistics obtained from the prescription data company IMS Health, the world’s leading health information and analytics company....
Psychiatric Death and Injury Toll Increases
In May of 2015, The British Medical Journal published an article by Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, who asserts “We could stop almost all psychotropic drug use without deleterious effect.” Professor Gøtzsche questions...
Is the Oregon Massacre Psychiatry’s Fault?
Innocent lives have been lost to yet another madman with a gun, this time at a community college in Oregon. As rational people, we know there has to be a reason for the proliferation of school shootings and other mass murders. Some, including President Obama, have...
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...
CCHR Helps New Mexico Legislature Prevent Drugging of School Kids
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...
New Study Proves People on Psychiatric Drugs Commit More Homicides
A new research paper called “Psychotropic drugs and homicide: A prospective cohort study from Finland” was just published in the June 2015 edition of the journal World Psychiatry. Dr. Jari Tiihonen a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinsksa Institutet in...Contact CCHR Florida
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