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Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win: SAMHSA Lauds Biden’s $68.5 Million Grant for Mental Health Services Robert Carter/October 4, 2024      The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) applauded last month the Biden Administration grants of $68.5 million for behavioral health education, training and community programs.      SAMHSA has been one of the chief suppliers of mental health statistics to Mental Health America, which bills itself as the nation’s leading national non-profit dedicated to the promotion of mental health, well-being, and illness prevention. Mental Health America asserts that 20 percent of Americans experience mental health issues, but that 56 percent of those people do not receive any treatment for their condition.      Those statistics are frequently quoted in the media to show the mental health epidemic the country is now facing. Keeping people in fear is standard fare for the media, of course, but these statistics are also used to make Big Pharma’s myriad medications to “solve” this problem seem more essential, even given the Black Box warnings of their suicidal side effects.      But where do those SAMHSA statistics about the nation’s mental health come from?      Since the Covid years, a good portion of them come from short, on-line screening questionnaires that people can take to see if they are suffering from depression or anxiety, among other mental health issues. The nine brief questions they are asked are of the “In the last two weeks have you felt noticeably sad about an event in your life?” format.      These questions for each of the SAMHSA screening forms were written by psychiatrist Robert L. Spitzer of Columbia University and his third wife, Janet Williams, now Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatric Social Work at Columbia University. The funding for their work was through a grant to Columbia by Pfizer, the manufacturer of Zoloft and the first Big Pharma company to broadly advertise the now debunked “chemical imbalance” theory as a cause of mental illness.      Pfizer also financed the British screening questionnaire now used by the National Health Service on people to see – some would say “suggest” – the possibility of a mental illness condition.      Biden’s $68.5 million dollar grant can now help usher into the mental health treatment industry those screened candidates who have self-diagnosed as having emotional stress. The 56 percent of untreated American respondents then become

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Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws…Even If They Wanted To      By Robert Carter/October 3, 2024      For over one hundred years medical professionals have been legally required to inform patients of their diagnosis and of the scientific reasons for it. They must also specify the benefits and risks of the treatment

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Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Robert Carter/September 12, 2024      Acadia Healthcare, one of the largest chains of psychiatric hospitals in America, has been “luring patients into its facilities and holding them against their will” in order to increase and extend insurance profits, the New York Times has just reported.      Acadia charges insurance $2200 per day for some of its in-house services. Its profits have doubled since Covid by keeping patients in its facilities “with no excuses or valid reason,” the report said.      The Times cited the case of one social worker who had to spend six days in an Arcadia psychiatric hospital after she had only come in to get her psychotropic bipolar medication dose adjusted. Another person, an employee at a local Indiana children’s hospital, was held for seven days at an Acadia psychiatric facility after coming there only to get therapy.      Acadia is accused of holding people against their will by misusing laws only meant to protect patients from self-harm. Acadia employees enforce psychiatric incarceration for these “patients,” and afterward they exaggerate or falsify their conditions in order to increase greater insurance compensation and keep them until their insurance runs out. In twelve states where Arcadia operates psychiatric hospitals, its patients, Acadia employees and even police officers have reported that Acadia has been detaining people through means that violate the law.      This is not the first time Acadia has run into trouble with the law for its psychiatric facility practices.      In May, 2019, in Charleston, West Virginia, Acadia settled with state and federal authorities to pay out $17 million to resolve allegations against the company’s fraudulent billing that defrauded Medicaid of $8.5 million.      In another 2019 lawsuit filed against Acadia, a New Mexico jury awarded a judgment of $485 million — including $250 million in punitive damages against Acadia — for negligence in an eight year old girl’s foster care case. The jury found that Acadia, through one of its Familyworks, Inc. subsidiaries, had placed the foster child in the home of a man they knew had been “sexually abusing and sexually assaulting foster children placed in his care.” The lawsuit stated that this foster care father then repeatedly raped the young girl after she was placed in his home.      Later that year the New Mexico Desert Hill Acadia facility responsible for the girl’s welfare was shut

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Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Psychiatry Turns Once Humane Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit      By Robert Carter/September 10, 2024      An asylum, by definition, is a place of refuge, a sanctuary. The original asylums were the almshouses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which were mainly funded by nobility as homes for the elderly

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Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Mass General and Harvard Psychiatrist Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Robert Carter/September 2, 2024      Psychiatrist Gustavo Kinrys, a Massachusetts General Hospital staff doctor and a Harvard Medical School educator, was sentenced to eight years in prison this June after being convicted last year of billing insurance for $19 million of services he never delivered.      Kinrys billed Medicare and private insurers for millions of dollars worth of in-person psychotherapy sessions that never occurred. He was on vacation in the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and the Czech Republic on those days he had billed for. His nine hundred fraudulent sessions included 382 claims of delivering more than twenty-four hoursof sessions in a single day, and on one day in particular in June, 2017, he claimed to have delivered an hour long session to each of seventy different patients.      He also billed Medicare and private insurers for $10.6 million for thousands of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMA) sessions he never delivered, including claims for 8,000 TCM sessions to seventy patients who never underwent even the first treatment.      TCM is a controversial therapy using electromagnetic stimulation of the brain cells in an attempt to treat depression. It is called a “non-invasive” therapy. An electromagnetic coil delivers its pulses directly into the patient’s brain, but it is not as “invasive” as ECT, the electroconvulsive therapy that delivers up to 400 volts of electricity into a patient as “therapy” to trigger a grand mal seizure.      Besides his positions at Mass General Hospital and Harvard, Kinrys owned and operated Advanced TMS Associates and delivered TMS therapy and psychotherapy there to patients suffering from depression. A single session of TMS costs between $300 and $500 and a “normal” course of treatment consists of 20 to 30 sessions.      The investigation of Kinrys revealed that he and an employee had created false patients records for both Medicare and private insurers, and that he had created even more fraudulent patient records in response to a 2018 subpoena from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.      In addition to convicting him of $19 million of insurance fraud, a jury also found him guilty of six counts of false statements about health care matters in general, seven counts of wire fraud, and one

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Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility.      By Robert Carter/September 2, 2024       Fear is a persuasive sales tool. Marketing experts have been using it forever.      “If a hurricane hit, you’ll be ruined financially if you don’t have flood insurance.” “You know, if your transmission went and you had this

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Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. 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Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children

Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children Robert Carter/August 9, 2024       Bills to ban electroconvulsive shocks and psychosurgery on anyone under the age of eighteen had been filed this 2024 session in the Florida state legislature, but the bills did not pass the House. Such restrictions do not exist anywhere else in America, and only California, Texas, Tennessee and Colorado have passed laws limiting or stopping ECT being given to children.      This Florida legislature finally follows the 2023 recommendations by the World Health Organization and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights which condemn any involuntary patient commitment, use of restraints and seclusion, and any forced treatment such as electroshock. Their joint published guidelines on “Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legislation” are designed to protect patients from coercive psychiatric practices, and the WHO and UN have both committed to a “zero tolerance” policy on these practices.      “Electroshock causes brain damage and should be prohibited on children” their declaration reads.      Coercive psychiatric practices “in mental healthcare violate the right to be protected from torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment,” the declaration also states.      The two organizations further recommend that “legislation must ensure accountability for any transgressions of laws providing for civil and criminal sanctions” as well as compensation.      Since the publishing of this WHO and UN human rights proclamation, the Florida Citizens Commission on Human Rights along with other civic minded Florida non-profit organizations and state legislators alert to abusive psychiatric practices have helped passed fourteen pieces of legislation in 2023 alone which protect mental health human rights in the state. 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Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. 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Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs, etc Order form Other Resources Latest News Control, Not Cure Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats Suicides Occur as FDA Takes 2 Decades to Rule on Dangers of Singulair $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways NZ Government Apologizes for Fifty Years of Psychiatric Institution Abuse Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Robert Carter/July 22, 2024      The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that the chief executive and the clinical president of Done, the telehealth company, had been arrested and accused of participating in a scheme to distribute Adderall and other stimulants for A.D.H.D. to patients who did not need the medications, and to bill insurers for …Jun 18, 2024 Read here: A.D.H.D. Startup Executives Accused of $100 Million Fraud in Adderall Scheme United States Sues Telehealth Providers and Executives for Unfair and Deceptive Conduct   Comments are moderated. You must be logged in to comment. Please keep it civil 

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