Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
CCHR Co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
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Hope for Risperdal Recovery
Johnson & Johnson has been under fire with multiple lawsuits, many of which stemmed from Risperdal deaths and irreparable injuries. Originally, the FDA only approved the drug for schizophrenia or mania. However, the drug maker encouraged off-label uses regarding children, especially within the autistic population, the elderly, and others, ending in disastrous outcomes. While it […]
Shocking Details For Moms and Babies Trickling Out on Questionable Effexor Drug Marketing
Something shocking has been going on with the SNRI antidepressant drug Effexor since the drug was listed in the 2015 list of drugs to be banned, published by the European Medicines Agency ¹. Equally shocking, there are hundreds more drugs banned in Europe, but not in the US or Canada. Various drugs, about 700 in […]
How to Sell Fairy Tales as Science
What do Munchkin Land and the DSM-5 have in common? A lot, as you will see. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the American Psychiatric Association’s latest attempt to legitimize itself. At first glance it is most imposing. Each of its 567 mental disorders carries its own code, symptoms and diagnoses […]
Robin Williams – Another Comedy of Errors
When he committed suicide on August 11, 2014 comedy icon Robin Williams joined a long list of artists who suffered tragically at the hands of psychiatrists. On the surface, Williams’ death seemed straightforward. According to USA Today’s website, the Marin County coroner’s report ruled his death as a “suicide by hanging, with no evidence of […]
Drugging our Children: Side Effects
20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals. CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online […]