Members of Florida’s Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee from both parties said the state needed to toughen laws and rules for prescribing psychiatric drugs to children in the wake of the hanging death of Gabriel Myers and an ongoing examination by a Department of Children and Families task force.
After U.N. Special Rapporteur Prof. Manfred Nowak’s two week country visit to China at the end of 2005, the U.N. published a report on the country mission to China. The report states that torture occurred in Chinese mental hospitals in 8% of the cases submitted to the Special Rapporteur over the 5-year period from 2000 to 2006.
Want to find a way to do something about the plight of our children at the hands of drug companies and misguided ‘mental health’ professionals? The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology will hold a two-day conference on Friday and Saturday, October 9-10, 2009 in Syracuse, New York at the Renaissance Syracuse Hotel. It will feature international experts on on the adverse of effects of psychiatric drugs and better ways of helping children and families.
Because of my medical training, my goal as a physician is to look for and treat the underlying conditions causing the patient’s problem, rather than just covering up those symptoms with drugs.
Today, the biggest problem we have, and one of the things that shocks so many Americans, is the rise of teen suicides and the rise of school shootings.