by CCHR Florida | Mar 26, 2017 | Baker Act, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Universal Health Services
For-profit psychiatric hospitals have continued cheating taxpayers and abusing government programs with fraudulent billing practices. At the same time they are piling up record profits, these facilities deliver terrible service to patients and create a dangerous...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 16, 2017 | Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health legislation in Florida? Obviously, Floridians love to help. Most all of us would stop and assist a lost child, happily provide food to hungry veterans or provide holiday gifts to families in need. Seemingly it is...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 1, 2017 | Baker Act, Elderly, Rights
The Baker Act, a Florida law which allows judges, law enforcement officers, doctors and mental health officials to initiate a process to involuntarily institutionalize those exhibiting mental illness is especially dangerous for the elderly. If an older person suffers...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 1, 2017 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Our police officers are on the front line of any disturbance in the social fiber, including handling those who appear mentally ill. An unstable individual with a deadly weapon can be formidable and unpredictable. But how many violent people are also mentally ill? An...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 27, 2017 | Alternatives, ECT, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health legislation in Florida? Obviously, Floridians love to help. Most all of us would stop and assist a lost child, happily provide food to hungry veterans or provide holiday gifts to families in need. Seemingly it is...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
While some have linked school shootings to “lack of mental health services” and hint that there would be fewer such incidents if people were under the watchful eye of mental health specialists, the true facts are either buried or obscured. A recent Fox News report...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Universal Health Services
“Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits.” [1] That is how Rosalind Adams, BuzzFeed News Reporter, headlined her article written after a year-long...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Five more people have lost their lives to an out of control man under the care of a psychiatrist. Arcan Cetin had been diagnosed with ADHD, depression and autism. Records show that doctors were gravely concerned about their patient. [1] Unfortunately this concern was...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, psychiatrists report he has “treatment-resistant depression”. This patient is then a prime candidate for any experimental lunacy that the profession dreams up because the poor...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The “Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health” [1] calls for a massive expansion by the federal government for the funding and development of more psychiatric mental health treatment for Americans. The agenda statement runs over 5,000 words and cites 25 references from...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 13, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Was Baton Rouge cop killer Gavin Long protesting police brutality by murdering three policemen, or was it yet another result of psychiatric drug side effects? This young veteran told his relatives and friends that he had post-traumatic stress disorder, and according...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 4, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
In the span of 10 days three horrific terror incidents were carried out in Europe by killers who had previously received psychiatric treatment. 84 Dead in Nice, France On July 14, 2016 during a Bastille Day holiday celebration, 31 year old Mohamed Lahouaiej...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 25, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has teamed up with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers in what has been called a “genocide-for-profit” scheme. Native American children are being removed from their homes, placed into foster care homes...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 16, 2016 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Baker Acting of minors is controversial. Many parents have been devastated when their child was taken from school without their knowledge and held for examination in a mental health facility in Florida. Some children have been Baker Acted for displaying typical...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 22, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Seeing as psychiatrists have been drugging children with Ritalin since the 1970s, some long term effects have now been studied and confirmed. Psychiatrist and whistle blower Peter Breggin reports these possible tragic outcomes for the victim of long term Ritalin use:...