Category Archives: Big Muddy River Newsletter

Numerous state psychiatric hospitals have recently been exposed for violations and/or deficiencies in patient care and safety, including several that have come under U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation. The reports show that these facilities are not safe, sanitary or … Continue reading →

Finnish School Shooter Joins List of Drug-Induced Kid Killers including Eric Harris, Kip Kinkel and Jeff Weise ST. LOUIS: The mental health watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), says the antidepressant-induced school shootings plaguing the U.S. have now … Continue reading →

An estimated 63,000 people have committed suicide on antidepressants, some as young as five Based on thousands of documented cases of psychiatric drug-induced suicide and violence, the mental health watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has launched a … Continue reading →

MENTAL HEALTH DAY URGES PROTECTIONS AGAINST SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING AND PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS Human Rights Group Calls on Missouri Commissioner of Education to Act St. Louis – International Mental Health Day was a launching pad to draw attention to the … Continue reading →

Asa Coon May Be Another Teen Under the Influence of Psychiatric Drugs Resulting in 29 Dead and 68 Wounded Cleveland juvenile court records obtained by the psychiatric watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) show that Asa Coon, the … Continue reading →

A Health Care Reform editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (“Then vs. now”, 09/30/07) bemoans the fact that “Health insurance premiums grew by 78 percent between 2001 and 2007.”   Meanwhile, the Missouri Department of Mental Health budget grew by 157 … Continue reading →

Congress gave final approval Thursday, November 20, 2007  to legislation designed to transform the Food and Drug Administration from a passive monitor to an active detective seeking out medications that have been approved for sale but turn out to be … Continue reading →

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Exposé is Representative of National Restraint Death & Patient Abuse Rickey Dean Wingo was among 115 “suspicious deaths” in Georgia state psychiatric hospitals between 2002-2006, one of the death tolls uncovered by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). In May … Continue reading →

A recent study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry exposes the lack of medical legitimacy behind psychiatric diagnoses. Using the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychiatry’s billing bible, researchers Michael B. First … Continue reading →