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Is Marijuana a Treatment for PTSD?
Is Marijuana a Treatment for PTSD? Marijuana’s popularity may be based on the perception that it is safer than other methods as a treatment for PTSD, but multiple studies show that marijuana is not the...
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Psychiatric Drug Users Experience Zombie-like State
Psychiatric Drug Users Experience Zombie-like State A recent research study published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing [“Living with antipsychotic medication side-effects: The...
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Missouri Legislative Session Ended May 15
Missouri Legislative Session Ended May 15 The 2015 Missouri legislative session ended on Friday, May 15. The CCHR St. Louis role in all this has been to visit the Capitol each year early in the...
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Legislative Elimination of Harmful Psychiatric Practices
Legislative Elimination of Harmful Psychiatric Practices FLORIDA There is a law on the books in Florida that if enforced would end harmful psychiatric practices there. It makes illegal all...
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Missouri Mental Health Budget Out Of Control
Missouri Mental Health Budget Out Of Control Missouri’s budget for the coming year is contained in a series of House Bills (HBs), passed by the end of the legislative session and forwarded to Governor...
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Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions
Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions A leading psychiatrist featured in the Huffington Post just admitted what CCHR has said for decades — mental disorders are not medical...
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Antidepressants kill over 500.000 people annually
Antidepressants kill over 500.000 people annually Antidepressants kill over 500.000 people annually. Click link to play YouTube video (4 minutes). A new study shows psychiatric drugs kill over half a...
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The Name Game, Latuda
The Name Game, Latuda Latuda, Latuda, bo-buda Banana-fana-fo-fuda Fee-fi-mo-muda Latuda One might as well be talking gibberish, since Latuda does not make any sense. Unless you consider that it makes a...
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The Havering Crowd
The Havering Crowd haver – verb gerund or present participle: havering [Scottish] talk foolishly; babble. “Tom havered on.” [British] act in a vacillating or indecisive manner. “Most people giggle at...
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21st Century Cures Act
21st Century Cures Act H.R.6, the 21st Century Cures Act, is rushing through Congress now. This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget,...
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Human Rights Concerns with the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
Human Rights Concerns with the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015 Congressional Rep. Tim Murphy (R., PA) originally introduced the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
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Involuntary Commitment Records in Missouri are No Longer Confidential
Involuntary Commitment Records in Missouri are No Longer Confidential Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed into law Senate Bill 426 on July 13 which expands the conditions under which confidential...
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The Dangerous Environment
Injustice, War, Pollution, Debt, Drugs, Illiteracy, Terrorism, Ignorance, Enslavement Many people are not only convinced that the environment is dangerous, but that it is steadily growing more so. For...
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Researchers press American Psychiatric Association to retract a study
Ed Silverman writes in StatNews: “More than a decade ago, a published study touted the benefits of using the Celexa antidepressant to treat children and teens. A recent analysis, however, alleged the...
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Missouri Mental Health
“Gov. Jay Nixon today [7/15/2016] said that Missouri is among the top five states in the number of people trained [27,730] in Mental Health First Aid and, among that group, leads in the percentage of...
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Missouri Mental Health News
Recent information from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch indicates some progress in reducing psychiatric fraud and abuse in Missouri. Of course, the Post-Dispatch slants the information to beg for more...
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The Greater Good
What are the limits that the State can do claiming “The Greater Good?” Strict scrutiny is a form of judicial review that courts use to determine the constitutionality of certain laws. To pass a strict...
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP)
According to PDMP proponents, because some people abuse prescription drugs, the government should track all people who use them – regardless of whether a person has committed any crime. We call this...
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Florida Court Rules Physician May Be Liable in Suicide
Florida’s Supreme Court ruled August 25, 2016 that a physician could be sued for medical malpractice in the case of a patient’s suicide. [Medscape Medical News, 2016-08-26] The victim was taking...
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Trintellix by any other name
This year (in May, 2016) the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in cooperation with drug distributor Takeda Pharmaceuticals has changed the brand name of the antidepressant Brintellix to Trintellix....
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