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Benzodiazepines Can Cause Dementia and Other Serious Side Effects
Psychiatric drugs such as Xanax and Valium are pretty much on the same level of notoriety as Prozac and Zoloft. However, Xanax and Valium are not antidepressants but are benzodiazepines....
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Can Anxiety Attack Symptoms Be Caused by Food Allergies?
Many doctors and nutritionists are finding that anxiety attack symptoms and some types of depression are the result of food allergies. Correct the diet and the person’s unwanted mental and emotional...
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Going to Sleep with Benzodiazepines Carry Huge Risks
Benzodiazepines tranquilizers first appeared in 1960 with the introduction of Librium followed in 1963 by Valium. This class of drug was originally intended for anxiety but since they made people...
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Involuntary incarceration isn’t solution for personal, social ills
National tragedies like the student massacres in Columbine, Colorado; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Newtown, Connecticut tend to revive state and national debates and legislation on mental health reforms....
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Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging
All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient...
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Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging
All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient...
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NIMH Casts Aside DSM V
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the federal agency that conducts and supports research that seeks to understand, treat, and prevent mental illness. NIMH recently dismissed the long...
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Why is ADHD Rampant Only in the United States?
It is all too common these days that a child who can’t sit still in class or can’t focus on his school work will be diagnosed with ADHD and put on psychotropic drugs as treatment. At least nine...
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ADHD the epidemic of misdiagnosis and overmedication in children
Thomas Power from director of the Center for Management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and US NEWS writes, recent findings that 11 percent of children have attention-deficit...
View ArticleNew Video: Your Right to Non-Psychiatric Treatment
Please watch, like, comment on and share this new CCHR Florida Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhFe5kGg3Y With new Federal legislation, mental health questions will be mandatory for medical...
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Early Intervention – A Fraud with a Hidden Agenda
Early intervention into the mental and emotional lives of children was given governmental go ahead by Connecticut state lawmakers recently with the passage of Bill 972 “An Act Concerning the Mental,...
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Harmful Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Given at Vatican Conference
It is good news that a conference was just held in the Vatican to discuss why psychotropic drugs are being increasingly prescribed to young children and whether the clinical trials support this...
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Mental Health and the New Slavery
Life can be tough. Bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to feed, mortgages, taxes, insurance, health problems, a toxic environment, bad education, people who do their best to drag you down… Any of the...
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College Students in Danger from Stimulant Abuse
Like it or not, drugs and alcohol have always been a part of college life. Most college students use these recreationally and some go one step further and become dependent on one or the other or both....
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Atypical Antipsychotics Harming Florida Medicaid Kids
Florida Medicaid is in the news again as a new investigation into the over prescription of atypical antipsychotic drugs for treating symptoms in very young children was just launched at the Federal...
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Diabetes Diagnosis and Psychiatric Drug Connection in Children
A diabetes diagnosis in a child may be directly linked to the use of anti-psychotic medication. In a study recently published in JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) it was...
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No Benefits for Children Labeled with ADHD
Millions of American children have been labeled with ADHD because of their inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive behavior. Approximately twenty million children are taking mind-altering drugs like...
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Hyperactivity Symptoms – Psychiatric and Pharmaceutical Fraud
Diagnosing children with hyperactivity symptoms has become a lucrative practice for the pharmaceutical industry. Shire Pharmaceuticals is one such company with big plans for our children. Spokesmen...
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College Suicide follows Adderall Abuse
Adderall abuse and addiction has gotten mixed into the drive to succeed and perform well in USA high schools and universities. Adderall is a Class 2 Narcotic, an amphetamine in the same class as...
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Our Veterans Given Psychotropic Drugs for No Reason
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine recently reported in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry that 30% of the veterans given psychotropic drugs had not been diagnosed with any mental health...
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