by CCHR Florida | May 17, 2021
Attorney Class on the Florida Baker Act About this event The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida presents the Baker Act Defense Attorney Symposium & Summit VII B.A.D.A.S.S. VII – Virtual Class for Defense Attorneys Learning Objectives: 1....
by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2021
Free Webinar on holistic solutions for mental health – supplements that works. Hear from an expert pharmacist. About this event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. Substance abuse certainly includes the misuse of opioids, which has led to a massive...
by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2021
Free webinar and conversation with Dr. Ben Miraglia to explain a physiological cause to child “ADHD” symptoms. About this event While childhood Sleep Disordered Breathing is underdiagnosed, the awareness of it is growing. The manner in which a child grows...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 12, 2021
Free Webinar on the Florida Mental Health Law, the Baker Act. Hear from a law expert. (3 CE Credits) About this Event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 28, 2021
Join an instructional webinar for child advocates regarding the foster care system and the Baker Act. About this Event Please join us as we discuss options of improvement for the overall system and neglected children’s rights. In the United States,...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 25, 2021
Join an instructional webinar for child advocates regarding the foster care system and the Baker Act. About this Event Please join us as we discuss options of improvement for the overall system and neglected children’s rights. In the United States, 470,000...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 25, 2021
Free Webinar on the Florida Mental Health Law, the Baker Act. Hear from a law expert. (3 CE Credits) About this Event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 10, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
Nicky Baker, Songwriter and international vocalist, performs her new song, “Just a Boy”! Many families are unaware that the mental health diagnoses of depression, ADHD, and the-like, have no medical test to evidence that they exist. Let’s help educate families...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 25, 2012 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Some synthetic weed is being manufactured here in the United States, potentially netting millions of dollars for these “entrepreneurs.” Earlier this month authorities in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana arrested seven who were allegedly part of a large synthetic weed...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
Check up on DJJ doctors The Palm Beach Post June 27, 2011 Anyone with an Internet connection can go online and see that Dr. Gold Smith Dorval is on probation with the Florida Board of Medicine and that his medical license was suspended because he stole money from...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Psychiatric Drugs
For ages psychiatry was associated with Freud and all your problems were thought to be rooted in your childhood or from your mother. Psychiatric drugs came on the scene in the 1950’s and psychiatrists shifted away from talk therapy to focusing on the brain with drugs...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 1, 2011 | Mental Illness
A half a decade ago, mental illness was relatively rare, found mostly in mental institutions or out-patient clinics, not in the mainstream. A radically different scene exists today. Millions of school children, previously considered bored or unruly, are now considered...
by CCHR Florida | May 26, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Juvenile delinquency is a troubling phenomenon, made all the more challenging by the current trend to treat at risk kids with dangerous antipsychotic drugs. In an article by John Kelly written for YouthToday , this alarming information was reported, “A...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 28, 2011 | Elderly, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
A recent article from The American Lawyer Academy discusses the continued unethical and dangerous use of psychotropic drugs on seniors. Rather than providing seniors with the care and compassion one would expect, such “care” often takes the form of strong psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 28, 2010 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs
Did you know that drug companies make 14.6 BILLION dollars annually on just antipsychotics alone? That’s more than any other class of drug. It didn’t used to be that way. Antipsychotics used to be prescribed only for the severely “mentally ill” but now according to...