Antidepressants and Homicidal Behavior
Antidepressants have been proven in court to cause homicidal behavior in some patients. In 2001, a federal jury in Cheyenne, Wyoming ordered SmithKline Beecham to pay 6.4 million dollars to relatives of a Paxil user who committed murder and suicide while on the drug....Why Expand Psychiatry with Involuntary Commitment?
Each time a citizen goes on an unpredicted shooting spree we hear pleas for more involuntary commitment laws and programs. Psychiatry has been playing a fiddle tune entitled “If he’d only gotten proper mental health care in time this tragedy could have been avoided”...Xanax Side Effects Lead to Horrific Tragedy
Mass shooter Elliot Rodger was, according to his parents, taking anti-anxiety drug Xanax in the days that led up to his bloody rampage and suicide in Isla Vista California on May 23. Elliot murdered six people and injured thirteen others before taking his life....Gun Violence and Psychiatric Medication
How often, despite the concern of many, are psychiatric medication and gun violence linked, especially in the mass media? It is rare to find even a passing mention of this connection. This is unconscionable, considering that 90% of all multiple-victim violence (from...Psychiatric Drugs – Creating Crime and Profit in Prisons
Prisons have become one of the main distribution points for psychiatrists peddling psychotropic drugs and for drug companies happy to supply all these medicines to a growing population of criminals. It’s quite a successful business model. Prisoners get screened when...Mental Illness Test Inherently Flawed
The psychiatrist’s test for mental illness is ever more inclusive. Normal behavior such as grieving for a deceased loved one, temper tantrums, and even hoarding disorder (“persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual...
Involuntary Commitment – A Psychiatrist’s Dream – A Patient’s Nightmare
Congressman Tim Murphy is the chief sponsor of a bill in the House of Representatives numbered HR 3717 inappropriately titled “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act”. This horrific piece of proposed legislation aims to help the psychiatric profession and drug...Florida Slides toward Legal Pot and Psychiatric Commitments
Florida medical marijuana just got a boost last week when the Florida House and Senate passed its own medical marijuana bill ahead of the November 2014 ballot initiative vote in which the citizens of Florida will decide if they want medical marijuana to be legal in...GSK’s Epileptic Seizure Drug Potiga Won’t Cure Alcoholics
A Boston University School of Medicine researcher, Clifford Knapp, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, got some press recently by claiming that Potiga, a GlaxoSmithKline drug used as an anti-convulsant to suppress partial epileptic seizures in patients, might be...Alternative Treatments for PTSD are Safer
No one will argue that being in the military, especially during deployment is extremely stressful. During times of war, soldiers see and do things that they just can’t forget. Many come home and are not the same as when they left. Injuries, trauma and brain...Sandy Hook Shooting Demands Thorough Investigation
It’s been about sixteen months since the tragic Sandy Hook shooting. Following the unnecessary deaths of twenty children, aged six and seven years old, plus six adults, one would think that something would have been done by now to prevent another similar incident. ...Ft.Hood Shooting – Psychiatrists Can’t Hide Ambien Side Effects
Another shooting incident happened this week at the Army base in Ft. Hood, Texas. A US soldier named Ivan Lopez age34 shot and killed three fellow soldiers and wounded 16 others before killing himself. In early press reports officials revealed that last month Lopez...Hyperactive Diagnosis – how Psychiatry and Big Pharma Lie to Us
A diagnosis of hyperactive as a legitimate disorder was something Dr. Keith Conners, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University worked hard for. Today, with 15% of all high school children supposedly affected by ADHD, one would expect this man to...More People on Antidepressants Means More Profits for Drug Companies
A report just came out from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stating that many of the world’s depressed or unhappy people live in developed countries where antidepressant use has skyrocketed. This poses the question, why would people who live...Contact CCHR Florida
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