Author Archives: cchrstl

As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge (1810-1812), the English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a member of the Extractors Club, dedicated to liberating its members from the madhouse, should any be committed to one. Of course, at the time … Continue reading →

Mental Health Counselor Gets 35 Years in Prison By Jay Weaver The Miami Herald jweaver@MiamiHerald.com  A federal judge Monday (9/19/2011) issued another lengthy sentence in one of the nation’s biggest mental-health fraud cases, sending a Miami therapist to prison for 35 … Continue reading →

Parents’ Rights: The Brave Detroit Mother Who Stood up to Child Protective Services The case of Maryanne Godboldo and the defense of her daughter against forced drugging by the state has quickly become legendary. Earlier this year Godboldo, the mother … Continue reading →

Dozens arrested in Medicare mental health fraud Sep 7th, 2011 By Jay Weaver Miami Herald Federal agents busted 42 South Florida suspects on Medicare fraud charges as part of a Justice Department sweep targeting hotspots from Miami to Los Angeles. … Continue reading →

According to an August 17, 2011 news article in the Edwardsville Intelligencer (Madison County, Illinois), “A teenager was insane and ‘involuntarily intoxicated’ by prescription depression medicine when he gunned down two sleeping neighbors in a tiny southern Illinois town before … Continue reading →

The relationship between psychiatric drugs and violence has been known for some time. You may be wondering, however, why it is apparently either not known or ignored. In the news this past week was the sad story about a woman, … Continue reading →

“Psychiatrists regularly fail to obtain informed consent by not fully informing their patients of the risks of psychotropic drugs as well as overstating their benefits.” [James B. Gottstein, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 9, Number 2, 2007] CCHR has … Continue reading →

An article in the August, 2011 Scientific American, written by directors at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, claims that “many big drug companies are pulling the plug on R&D for neuropsychiatric and other central nervous system … Continue reading →

Risperidone Ineffective for PTSD A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association investigated whether the antipsychotic drug risperidone would be effective for veterans diagnosed with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Serotonin reuptake-inhibiting (SRI) antidepressants are currently the … Continue reading →