CCHRINT ADHD ADS ON NATIONAL TV

Thanks to our supporters, we have been able to get our ads placed on national TV and viewed by millions. Such as this ad, on normal kids being diagnosed with "ADHD" which is part of CCHR's "Fight for Kids" campaign - giving parents enough information to make educated choices. You can help CCHR spread the word by making a tax deductible donation here: http://www.cchrint.org/cchrint-donate/

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

There was a time when mothers gave their babies opium, people bought hallucinogens at the local bar, and anxious patriots sent hypodermic needles and cocaine to soldiers as a present. It was called The Great Binge, and it's probably wrong to feel sad that it's over. When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

Laurie A. Couture Debunks ADHD on Anderson Show

“We see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotion status, mental function and will to act.” -Wayne O. Evans, Ph.D. Psychotropic Drugs in the Year 2000 (1967)

Laurie A. Couture Debunks ADHD on Anderson Show

DSM-5 Criticized for Financial Conflicts of Interest

Controversy continues to swell around the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, better known as DSM-5. A new study suggests the 900-page bible of mental health, scheduled for publication in May 2013, is ripe with financial conflicts of interest.

DSM-5 Criticized for Financial Conflicts of Interest

ADHD more common among youngest kids in class: Overdiagnosed?

Children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder may be diagnosed because of problems paying attention, family history, or as new research suggests, because they're younger than their classmates.

ADHD more common among youngest kids in class: Overdiagnosed?

Study describes pros and cons of antidepressant use in pregnancy

Some women with depression who become pregnant face a troubling decision: whether to continue taking antidepressant medication to keep the depression at bay even though the medications may harm the fetus.

Study describes pros and cons of antidepressant use in pregnancy

There is an epidemic of over-diagnoses of ADHD

There is not an epidemic of ADHD in the country, there is an epidemic of fraudulent diagnoses of this disorder. Fred A. Baughman Jr., M. D., a Pediatric Neurologist, has elucidated upon this problem very effectively in his paper "Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) As Fraud." Dr Baughman has noted that with absolutely no proof that ADHD is a disease with a confirmatory, physical abnormality, the ADHD “epidemic,” grew from 150,000 in 1970, to five million in 1997. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Ritalin production, in the United States , rose 700%, between 1990 and 1997.

There is an epidemic of over-diagnoses of ADHD

Psychiatric prescriptions under state investigation, agency says

A Texas health agency has begun investigating more than three dozen healthcare providers who prescribed large quantities of powerful psychiatric drugs -- some to children -- after a U.S. senator raised questions about the medications.

Psychiatric prescriptions under state investigation, agency says

Iowa Senator's letter to Oregon hits hot-button issue: child psychiatrist's prescribing rate

Iowa Senator's letter to Oregon hits hot-button issue: child psychiatrist's prescribing rate


Psychiatrist Curt Sturos tends to troubled kids in southern Oregon and considers himself part of a growing awareness that mental health drugs may be overused.