by CCHR CO | Feb 28, 2011 | News for Colorado, Schools
Child Was Kept Four Days In A Psychiatric Hospital Because Of His Stick Drawings In School An 11-year-old was arrested at his home on criminal charges for stick figures depicting violence that he had drawn in an Arvada public school, reportedly at the urging of his...
by CCHR CO | Feb 3, 2011 | News for Colorado
Three Colorado psychiatrists who were disciplined by the Colorado Medical Examiners Board in 2010 failed to publicly disclose the actions on their online physician profiles within 30 days of the actions, as required by law. This finding has been reported to the...
by CCHR CO | Feb 2, 2011 | News for Colorado, Schools
CCHR Colorado continues to receive complaints from parents who are being pressured by teachers to put their children on “ADHD” or other psychiatric drugs because of the children’s behavior problems in the classroom. This is a violation of Colorado state law. Colorado...
by CCHR CO | Dec 21, 2010 | News for Colorado, Schools
Children are continually “under the microscope” of the school psychologist This mother’s story illustrates how psychologists and psychiatrists have turned schools from places of learning into psychiatric clinics, “diagnosing” millions of schoolchildren with ADHD and...
by CCHR CO | Oct 30, 2010 | News for Colorado
Colorado’s top Medicaid prescriber of drugs at the center of a U.S. senator’s probe into fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid system billed nearly $1.1 million in 2008 and 2009 for 1,304 prescriptions written on four expensive antipsychotic drugs, according to data...
by CCHR CO | Oct 14, 2010 | News for Colorado
Data being misused to alarm the public is consistent with marketing programs of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry Data recently released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment show that the trend in suicides in the state in effect has been...
