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www.ablechild.org
AbleChild is a national parents’ rights, non-profit
organization dedicated to protecting fully- informed consent as well as
the right to refuse psychiatric treatment for your child. It provides
information necessary to make an educated decision regarding the
“diagnosis” (or misdiagnosis) of your child and any medication
prescribed.
www.alternativementalhealth.com
An extensive directory of alternative, drug-free
approaches to mental health and a list of alternative mental health
practitioners.
www.alternativetomedscenter.com
This facility explores all of the medical reasons why a
person may be depressed, anxious, psychotic, or in emotional or physical
pain, and treats those issues with the best available holistic methods.
They also handle psychiatric medication withdrawal and address the
causes of cravings and addictive biochemistry. It is a unique program
that specializes in restoring healthy neurochemical function naturally
and offsetting the addictive biochemistry which may be a main factor in
relapse. They reduce or eliminate the need for psychiatric medication.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
The Antipsychiatry Coalition is a
nonprofit volunteer group of people who feel they have been harmed by
psychiatry. The site warns of the harm routinely inflicted on those who
receive psychiatric “treatment” and provides articles, book reviews and
links to videos on the subject.
“Anti-psychiatry”
listing on wikepedia.org
A history of the anti-psychiatry movement, its
originators and principal advocates, and the theories and evidence upon
which the movement is based.
Australian Raine Study on Long Term Effects of ADHD Prescription Drug
Use
For children diagnosed with ADHD “drugs over the long term don’t have an
impact on improving performance” while “for those on medication it is
ten times more likely that classroom performance will be below average,”
says Lou Landau, co-author of this 2010 Australian report on long term
effects drugs for ADHD. Risks of heart attack and stroke are also
increased into adulthood states the report. To see the complete report,
click on the link above.
www.breggin.org
Dr. Peter Breggin, Harvard trained psychiatrist and
former consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, exposes
the dangers of mood altering drugs and the false biological theories of
mental health. The site provides extensive scientific resources.
www.cchr.org
The
Citizens Commission on Human Rights site has extensive information on
the relatively horrifying philosophical, political and practical history
of psychiatry. It points out the extreme danger of psychiatric views and
practices, particularly coupled as they are with the pharmaceutical
industry. This organization also offers a venue for reporting
psychiatric abuse and adverse pharmaceutical reactions.
www.endofshock.com
A
coalition sponsoring the abolition of
electroshock in Texas.
fda.gov/medwatch
MedWatch is the FDA program for reporting serious reactions, product
quality problems and product use errors with human medical products such
as drugs and medical devices. If you think you or someone in your
family has experienced a serious reaction to a medical product or drug
or to electric shock, you can take the reporting form to your doctor
(who is not required to report adverse reactions) or you can complete
the form yourself on-line.
freedom-center.org
Freedom Center is an award winning support advocacy and activism
community in Western Massachusetts. Run by and for people labeled with
mental disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline, or who
experience extreme states of consciousness, Freedom Center works for
access to holistic alternatives, compassionate care, and an end to
forced psychiatric treatment.
www.lifecenterforanewtomorrow.com
As more and more evidence is found that psychiatric drugs are causing
side effects often worse than the original condition of the individual,
alternative treatments have to be worked out. The Life Center is not a
medical or treatment facility. Its main focus is to provide an
environment that is peaceful and safe, where people can rest, gradually
calm down, regain their senses and with some help recover the social
skills necessary to function successfully in life.
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www.mindfreedom.org
Mind Freedom International is an independent
non-profit coalition defending human rights and promoting humane
alternatives for mental and emotional well being. It keeps up-to- date
with anti-psychiatry news and is an extensive resource for information
on the abuses from and within the mental health system.
www.moshersoteria.com
Site chronicles the proven, successful treatment and
rehabilitation of the “severe mentally ill” in a humane, non-hospital
setting without the use of drugs, surgery or ECT.
www.novusdetox.com
Novus Medical Detox Center does not
offer a rehab program, per se, but it is a detox center that tailors a
detox program for each individual’s metabolism, body and circumstance
under medical supervision and 24 hour nursing care and 24 hour access to
a withdrawal specialist. Here one can safely begin the healing process
from addiction or dependency.
www.oikos.org
This site exposes the dark side of
psychiatry by offering documents and articles that show as absolutely
unscientific the biological-psychiatric theory that personal problems
are due to chemical imbalances and that they can therefore be corrected
by drugs and electro-convulsive treatment.
www.psychiatrichelp.org
A series of comprehensive, downloadable booklets on
19 different aspects of psychiatric abuse, including fraud,
pseudo-scientific theories, child drugging, elderly abuse and erosion of
justice. Site shows how broad and how dangerous has been the influence
of psychiatry on our society.
www.psych-crimes.com
A site that focuses on the dangers women face for
psychiatric abuse. The site also describes how several famous actresses
had their lives completely ruined by psychiatrists.
www.psychquotes.com
Revealing and scary quotes on the goals of psychiatry
and psychology by the very leaders, founders and theorists of psychiatry
and psychology.
Richard Cohen Films
Hurry Tomorrow
The film Hurry Tomorrow was filmed over a six
week period in a locked ward at Metropolitan State Hospital in Los
Angeles and it documents the loss of human rights and the abuse suffered
by psychiatric patients in a state mental hospital. The film prompted an
investigation that revealed the tragic deaths of several hundred
patients.
www.szasz.com
This site, The Cybercenter for Liberty and
Responsibility, advances the debate about the basic ideas of Dr. Szasz,
a psychiatrist himself and a pioneer in the exposure of psychiatric
abuse and fraud. He is the author of a number of seminal books on the
subject, including The Myth of Mental Illness.
smartmedinfo.com
A site for professionals and lay people alike,
smartmedinfo offers, articles, videos, blogs and information that are
fact based and are dedicated to giving complete information about
psychiatric drugs, collectively and individually. An example of one
fact: forty-one percent of all prescriptions are given for something
that the FDA did not approve them for.
sntp.net
An associate site of the Foundation for Truth in
Reality, this “Say No to Psychiatry” site goes over the dangerous short
term and largely unknown long term effects of psychiatric medication and
lists in detail their “side effects,” which include addiction and
withdrawal symptoms. The site also shows how psychiatric drugs actually
obtain their effects by causing brain dysfunction.
www.wildestcolts.com
Site of John Breeding, author of the seminal work
“The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses: The Truth about Ritalin, ADHD
and Other Disruptive Behavior Disorders.”
http://no-more-pills.com
With its series of simple, graphic info-toons, this site is an excellent
educational source for youth on the dangerous effects of prescription
medication. The site shows the factual dangers of psychiatric drugging
and offers clear, simple explanations of how the brain works, the label
of ADHD, the DSM, the notorious “side effects” of anti-depressants and
how to safely get off these dangerous chemicals, to name just a few of
the related topics covered.
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