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Psychiatric Watchdog Speaks Out About Tom Cruise Speaking Out; Warns

About National Crisis of Child-Drugging with 'Kiddy Cocaine' and

Suicide-Inducing Antidepressants;

 

 

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 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 percent 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 percent of teens abuse

the stimulants Ritalin and Adderall. Between 1995 and 1999, the use of

antidepressants increased 580 percent in the under-6 population and

151 percent in the 7-12 age group.

 

In some communities, 20 percent 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.

27th June 2005, Los Angeles

Marla Filidei, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 800-869-2247;

Web: http://www.cchr.org

http://www.usnewswire.com/

 

Further Resources:

 

The Mind Game by Phillip Day