Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects 8 million children in the United States now take these drugs

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TOM CRUISE : " Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects "

Thu Jun 30, 2005 00:58

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PSYCHIATRIC WATCHDOG SPEAKS OUT ABOUT TOM CRUISE SPEAKING OUT

 

Group warns about national crisis of child drugging with " kiddy cocaine "

and suicide-inducing antidepressants

 

Video exposes the hoax of psychiatry's " chemical imbalance " theory

 

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog

group, said Tom Cruise's remarks on NBC's Today Show (Friday, June 24)

represent a growing public awareness about the national crisis of children

and adults being prescribed mind-altering drugs. More than 8 million

children in the United States now take these drugs; millions more abuse

them. Today the group released a White Paper on " Common Psychiatric Drugs

and Their Effects " that educates people about the physically and mentally

damaging effects of psychotropic drugs that are often prescribed for a

" chemical imbalance " medical experts say doesn't exist. Accompanying this is

a video documentary on the group's website, http://www.cchr.org, that

includes prominent doctors, neurologists and psychiatrists debunking the

hoax of mental disorders being physically based or the result of a chemical

imbalance.

 

" The paper provides information that psychiatrists are not going to tell

people, enabling them to make an informed choice, " CCHR's international

president, Jan Eastgate said. She slammed the American Psychiatric

Association (APA) and affiliated mental health organizations that tout false

statistics to the media about the number of Americans suffering from " mental

illness " which she said is a fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

Ms. Eastgate said, " The Today Show interview was a warning that people need

to study psychiatry and its purported research rather than accepting at face

value concepts such as a chemical imbalance in the brain is causing their

problems, which can deny them real help. In any media interview with a

psychiatrist he should be asked what lab test he uses to determine this.

There isn't one. "

 

The " chemical imbalance " theory, popularized by marketing, is " no more than

psychiatric wishful thinking, " the group's U.S. president, author and former

educator, Bruce Wiseman says. " It has been thoroughly discredited by

researchers, doctors and scientists. The only reason it exists is that it

makes it easier for psychiatrists to drug vulnerable and often desperate

individuals. It is driven by more than $23 billion in drug sales each year. "

 

Appearing in CCHR's video is Dr. Julian Whitaker, author and founder of the

highly respected Whitaker Wellness Center in California, who says that

psychiatry is a pseudoscience. " There's no pathology. There's no blood test.

There's no lab test. There's no x-ray. Psychiatrists list out and vote on

clusters of behavior and call them a disease. They are giving drugs to

millions of people who do not have a defined medical problem. "

 

Also interviewed is New York psychiatrist Ron Leifer who says, " There's no

biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, 'I have a

biochemical imbalance,' I say, 'Show me your lab tests.' There are no lab

tests. So what's the biochemical imbalance? "

 

Based on this false theory, millions of people have fallen prey to

psychiatric treatment: stimulants and antidepressants have induced teenagers

to go on murderous shooting sprees (8 out of 13 school shootings, such as

the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, were committed by teens on

psychiatric drugs). Mothers on these drugs have killed their children or cut

off the arms of their baby while taking these drugs. Electroshock-the firing

of up to 460 volts of electricity across the temples-is damaging the brains

of over 100,000 Americans every year.

 

Because of the influence of psychiatry in the nation's schools, hundreds of

parents have also been forced to place their children on psychotropic drugs

as a requisite for their education, an abuse CCHR and others countered with

congressional support last year. The Prohibition of Mandatory Medication

amendment now prohibits this practice.

 

For 14 years, CCHR, which was established by the Church of Scientology, has

also worked with parents and concerned groups to expose the violence and

suicide-inducing effects of antidepressants. Last October, the Food and Drug

Administration ordered a " black box " label for antidepressants that the

drugs could cause suicide. But these reforms are not enough to curb what

CCHR says is a " national crisis " of child drugging and psychotropic drug

abuse.

 

The International Narcotics Control Board says that 80% of the world's

Ritalin consumption is in the United States. This is a drug that medical

studies show can predispose children to later cocaine use because Ritalin

and cocaine derive from similar chemical properties. A study of 500 children

over 26 years by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley

found that Ritalin is basically a " gateway drug " to other drugs, in

particular cocaine. A recent survey by the Partnership for a Drug-Free

America found 10% of teens abuse the stimulants Ritalin and Adderall.

Between 1995 and 1999, the use of antidepressants increased 580% in the

under-6 population and 151% in the 7-12 age group.

 

In some communities, 20% of children are taking stimulants, according to

Drug Enforcement Administration pharmacologist Gretchen Feussner. " That

should be a wake-up call that something isn't right, " Feussner said.

 

 

 

" Psychiatrists are society's biggest drug pushers, " Wiseman says. " People do

suffer from serious mental difficulties or life-crippling problems and their

methods of coping with this can fail. Psychiatrists exploit this, marketing

drugs for conditions they admit they do not know the cause of or can cure.

Fraud involves intentional deception or deliberate misrepresentation to

secure money, rights or privilege. Americans are waking up to this

psychiatric fraud. "

 

The group's White Paper, " Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects, " and

other website publications warn people that they should not stop taking

psychiatric drugs unless it is under medical advice and supervision. They

stress the need to find competent medical (not psychiatric) doctors who can

do thorough physical examinations to determine what could be underlying and

causing emotional problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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