Category Archives: Big Muddy River Newsletter

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 →

The Parental Consent Act Congressman Ron Paul has re-introduced The Parental Consent Act, a bill which prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program. The Parental Consent … Continue reading →

DC 0 to 3 Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised (DC:0-3R) Your future generations are in peril. Your children are at risk from psychiatric fraud and abuse. The Zero To Three organization … Continue reading →

ADHD—Labeling normal kids “mentally ill” Click the picture to watch a short video. ADHD is a bogus mental “disorder” based off a checklist of behaviors. There are no medical tests to prove any child has ADHD, yet more than 4.5 … Continue reading →

The Psychiatric Abuse of the Elderly Click on the picture to find out about the disastrous legacy of the widespread introduction of psychiatric treatment into the care of the elderly over the last few decades. Click here to download and read … Continue reading →

Psychiatric Labeling “Confirmation bias” is a term used to describe the tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions regardless of whether the information is true. As a result, people may gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and … Continue reading →