Tag Archives: Psychiatric Drugs

Press Release – CCHR STL Visits Missouri State Capitol

Jefferson City, Missouri – February 6, 2019 Citizens Commission on Human Rights, founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and the late psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, has been vigilant in exposing the lack of science behind psychiatry’s diagnostic methods … Continue reading

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Missouri child psychiatry project got federal grant

The current state of mental health care for children is mostly prescribing them harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs for fraudulent “mental illnesses.” Continue reading

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Are You Schizophrenic?

Schizophrenia is defined so vaguely that, in actuality, it is a term often applied to almost any kind of behavior of which the speaker disapproves. Continue reading

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Tranq Your Dog

The psychiatric industry makes a concerted effort to create new patient classes. Continue reading

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Psychiatry: An Industry of Death

Unrestrained, the psychiatric industry continues to harm in the name of help. Only public disclosure of their criminal practices and determined action by individuals has effected change. What has psychiatry done to earn the label “An Industry of Death“? It … Continue reading

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Rexulti Fails to Get Results

REXULTI (generic brexpiprazole) is a prescription psychiatric drug from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company and Lundbeck pharmaceutical company. Although it failed Phase II clinical trials for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in … Continue reading

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More About Dopamine

Since we discussed Serotonin in a previous newsletter, we should also discuss Dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays several important roles in the brain and body. A neurotransmitter is a chemical released by neurons (nerve cells) to send signals … Continue reading

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Over-Drugging Foster Care Children

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released their September, 2018 report “Treatment Planning and Medication Monitoring Were Lacking for Children in Foster Care Receiving Psychotropic Medication.” A previous 2015 OIG report found … Continue reading

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More About Serotonin

We often remark on serotonin when discussing psychiatric drugs, so we thought we’d describe it in more depth. The word comes from the combination of sero- (serum) + tonic (from Greek tonos string or stretching) + -in (from Latin -ina … Continue reading

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Order versus Disorder

Shades of Your High School Physics Class You may have encountered this word before — entropy. Stick with us, we’re going to make it simple. Basically, without getting all scientific about it, the word means “the degree of disorder or … Continue reading

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