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Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

by CCHR Florida | Mar 13, 2012 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

According to a recent article, the placebo effect is being used as an experimental tool on unwitting school children. At least the placebo effect from a power bar with the dubious pronouncement “improves writing power” will not cause permanent mental disability. ...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

The Heart Risks of Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Feb 20, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

In today’s world of over-specialized and drug-infused medicine, doctors hand out pills for everything, often prescribing drugs without regard to side effects on patients’ general health.  Dentists use mercury, which may preserve teeth but is highly toxic to the rest...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Talking to Your Children about Synthetic Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Jan 16, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Talking to children is a parent’s best defense against their child’s use of synthetic drugs. In a culture where psychiatry and Big Pharmaceutical companies have made drug use commonplace among our youth, it may be wise to take another look at the side effects not only...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

The New Definition of “Psychiatric Treatment”

by CCHR Florida | Dec 23, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

The latest methods of and new definition for “psychiatry”, have changed. The “modern” bio-chemical psychiatrists rely on seeing patients for a mere ten minutes or so, deciding which meds to prescribe, and sending them on their way. this leaves the patient, searching...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Psychiatric Medication Psychiatry Knows the Harm

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse

Psychiatry knows that they are harming in the name of “Mental Health”.  A recent article, in the “Psychiatric Times”, revealed that the psychiatric industry is well aware of the harms of psychiatric medication and has known, since at least 2004, about a medical test...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Questioning the Quality of Psychiatric Treatment of Depression

by CCHR Florida | Nov 28, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The use of psychiatric drugs for treating depression recently came under scrutiny, when results of past drug trials were found to be misinterpreted and not fully disclosed to the public. A study done in the year 2002,  testing over 340 people showed that...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Increased Labeling and Drugging of ADHD In Children

by CCHR Florida | Nov 3, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

  In September, the American Academy of Pediatrics demanded increased FDA warnings about psychotropic drugs causing diabetes and other health problems in children.  Despite the contradiction, the American Academy of Pediatrics just now approved testing even more...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

The truth about Psychiatric drugs

by CCHR Florida | Oct 24, 2011 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The recent reliance on psychiatric drugs to treat any and all problems in thought, learning, traumatic and even social situations, often replaces actual solutions to life’s problems.   Psychiatric drugs have become a mainstream phrase that 100% of our population is...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Teenage Stress-Dangers of Drug Abuse

by CCHR Florida | Oct 21, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Teenage stress can be dangerous. Some studies show that up to 73% of teens who use drugs began taking them primarily due to worry over school grades. Discord in the family has also been shown to be a contributing factor to teenage stress. The same study showed that...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

OCD in Children and Psychiatric Testing

by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2011 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders

A boom in the diagnosis of OCD in children has given the psychiatric industry a new playing field. What are the current methods used by psychiatrists to enforce their fascination with drugging children as a means to “cure” mental disease? And how do antibiotics relate...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Psychiatric Drugs for Psychiatric Disorders May Shorten Life

by CCHR Florida | Sep 26, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric disorders may indeed shorten life. But not for what may seem like the “obvious” reason. Psychologists’ own studies have found psychiatric drugs shortening life by many years. If treatment for psychiatric disorders can result in early death, are patients...

Are Children with Bipolar Becoming Drug Guinea Pigs?

by CCHR Florida | Sep 5, 2011 | Children and Teens

Are children with Bipolar the victims of a huge profit-making scheme? Is it possible that the uptick in childhood bipolar diagnosis is related to the huge profits experienced by drug companies and psychiatrists promoting these drugs? There are prominent child...

Vyvanse Side Effects in Children

by CCHR Florida | Aug 31, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Vyvanse is a psychiatric drug used to treat children ages six to twelve with ADHD.   It is different than other ADHD drugs because it has to be swallowed and digested before the drug takes effect.  However, it is similar to other ADHD drugs because Vyvanse side...
Ritalin Side Effects and the Placebo Effect

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: Psychiatric drugs work like placebo

by CCHR Florida | Aug 4, 2011 | Military & Veterans

This week, the NY Times reported on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans. Veterans and military personnel who take psychiatric medications such as antidepressants and antipsychotics are no more likely to improve than those taking a placebo. Therefore, why would...

Psychiatric Drugs: Caught in the Web of Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | Jul 18, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs

Forty or so years ago, it would be safe to say no kids were on any psychiatric drugs. ADHD and bipolar disorder in kids was unheard of and most other children’s mental illness labels were nonexistent. Depending on your source, six to seven million children are now on...
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