Today is offically “blog about human rights day”, and this is my official post about Human Rights. Even though this day is demarcated to be for this subject, I do not blog about human rights only on this day. You’ll find a lot of posts in this blog throughout the year, on the subject of human rights, especially as they relate to the abuses of psychiatry against them.

Here’s a place to read up on what are the basic human rights guaranteed all humans on earth by the United Nations. (Fat lot of good such a guarantee does in most …

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) holds a convention every year where they sometimes vote on whether to make up a new mental illness, such as ADD or ADHD or Math Disorder or similar nuttiness. Every year for the last 40 some years, my friends at Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the only effective group doing anything as a watchdog on psychiatric abuses, picket the APA convention. This year the convention was in DC, and here’s a photo of a billboard mounted on a truck, that gives the truth about what the APA actually does.

If you have a hard time …

This trailer for a new movie, called “Generation Rx” is generating some buzz. The movie itself has already garnered some great reviews. Paul Haggis called the film “A powerful and often chilling eye opener. The stories continue to haunt me.” The film will be released within the next few months, if all goes well in post production. Take a look at this trailer for Generation Rx and let me know what you think:

A new hard-hitting anti-psych video from CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, of which I’ve been a member since 1972, highlights the firm link between school shootings and the drugs that the shooters were on. Drugs like Ritalin and Prozac ARE the reason these school shootings are taking place. These drugs need to be outlawed and the criminal drug company executives and FDA officials that have conspired to keep the public in the dark so they can keep raking in their profits need to be tried and imprisoned for their complicity in these murders. The psychiatrists who have been prescribing …

This article from London’s Daily Telegraph reports that a psychiatrist often picked by the BBC as a talking head Tonmoy Sharma is being struck off the medical register for fraud and misconduct, including pretending to be a PhD when he wasn’t. After a ten-month hearing process, he was found guilty of “serious professional misconduct”. He was found to have acted unprofessionally in relation to five major studies between 1997 and 2003, involving four Big Pharma companies, including Eli Lilly and the Janssen Research Foundation.

Received a funny email today about Caffeine-related disorders.

In the clinician’s handbook for diagnosing mental disorders (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-IV-TR), caffeine-related disorders are classified under the category of substance-related disorders. DSM-IV-TR specifies four caffeine-related disorders:

• caffeine intoxication
• caffeine-induced anxiety disorder
• caffeine-induced sleep disorder
• caffeine related disorder not otherwise specified

What a pantload of crap!

It’s true that caffeine is a mild drug with euphoric symptoms, which can be abused. Those who drink more than a cup or two a day are caught in some cycle of highs and lows. And over the long term, coffee is bad for your …

Dr. Al Sears, an MD from Florida, reports that:

Chances are you know of a child on Ritalin or some other prescription drug for “attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (ADHD). But did you know that these drugs can keep children from growing normally? Meanwhile, there are plenty of safe, natural ways to help these children that you won’t hear about from the mainstream medical community.

In a recently published study, a team of American scientists discovered that while Ritalin and similar prescription drugs like Adderall and Dexedrine might help some kids in the short term, over a three-year period they had no beneficial …