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....
Psychiatrists Still Love Their Electroconvulsive Therapy
At the most recent annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association two leading practitioners and promoters of electroconvulsive therapy (the modern name for applying electric shocks to a person’s brain using 225 to 450 volts) held a session to educate general...Female Viagra – More Drug Danger in Sheep's Clothing
Flibanserin, touted as the “female Viagra” is, in actuality, another failed anti-depressant. Echoing a familiar refrain, researchers insist this drug “restores chemical imbalances in the brain.” Medical News Today reported: “While the exact mechanisms by which...
Psychiatrists Want More Research with Psychedelic Drugs?! – Part Two
The Earliest LSD “Research” Appropriately enough LSD’s creator, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann an employee of Sandoz Laboratories, was the first person to experience a bad trip on LSD. Telling no one at Sandoz except his lab assistant, Hoffman gave...
Psychoactive Drugs Played a Hand in South Carolina Church Murders
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, age 21, carrying his .45-caliber handgun in a fanny pack, sat in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study for about an hour. Then he took out...
Do Legal Psychiatric Drugs Encourage Illegal Synthetic Drugs?
Could the booming use of illegal synthetic “designer” drugs be related in any way to the enormous quantity of legally, authorized anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and stimulants prescribed and sold in ever increasing amounts around the world? Psychiatric drugs and...
Are Foster Children Psychiatric Guinea Pigs?
Medicaid coverage of foster kids has contributed to out of control psychotropic drugging of children as young as 12 months. Because “mental health” services are included in this coverage, there has been rampant abuse. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 2011...When Psychiatrists Let Killers Go Free – The Insanity Defense
There have been cases of psychotic killers, deemed “not guilty by reason of insanity” being released from mental hospitals and back into society. When psychiatrists testify killers are not responsible for their actions, these murderous men and women often escape...
Facebook Envy Depression and Nomophobia Heading to DSM V
Nomophobia and Facebook Envy Depression are a couple of relatively new conditions dreamed up or “discovered” by psychologists and social scientists. Psychiatrists are eager to validate these newcomers and perhaps vote them into existence as “official disorders” worthy...
Involuntary Commitment Law in Florida
Mental Health Involuntary Commitment In Florida, the Involuntary Commitment law is referred to as the Baker Act. If someone you know has been involuntarily committed, you have the right to be fully informed about the step-by-step procedure of involuntary commitment as...
Baker Act – FREE HELP & INFORMATION CALL 800-782-2878
What are the time boundaries for the person who has been sent for an involuntary psychiatric examination? Commonly called a Baker Act, involuntary psychiatric examination is a topic that is often misunderstood and misapplied – even by those professionals who are...
More Shady Behavior Found In the World of Psychiatric Drugs
“The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry” just published an article in which a host of MD’s and PhD’s explored the idea that many individuals who use antidepressants have no current or lifetime history of mental disorders. Of those currently taking anti-depressant drugs,...Exposing Psychiatric Criminality at the University of Minnesota
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series The first part of this series explored the suspension of psychiatric drug trials at the University of Minnesota due to the unethical and factually criminal behavior on the part of psychiatrists handling the program. But why did the university...Contact CCHR Florida
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