Sixteen Governmental Inquiries Into Psychiatry’s Drugs In Past Twelve Months

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Sixteen Governmental Inquiries Into Psychiatry's Drugs In Past Twelve

Months

 

A panel of nine psychiatrists, many with financial ties to

pharmaceutical companies, heard chilling testimony from medical

experts as well as the victims of these drugs --– and did nothing.

 

by Brian Beaumont

 

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 10/29/05 -- In only the past

twelve months, 16 government warnings by five different countries

including Switzerland, England, Canada, the US and Europe have been

issued on the previously undisclosed dangers of psychiatric drugs

citing side effects of drug dependence, addiction, mania, hostility,

aggression, psychosis, suicide and violence.

 

In 1990, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) asked American

and Canadian psychiatrists, Health Canada and the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA), to issue warnings about the latest psychiatric

drug causing violence and suicide: the antidepressant Prozac.

 

CCHR filed complaints and provided evidence to both government

agencies. Heath Canada did nothing but in response, on September 20,

1991, the FDA ordered an advisory committee to hold a hearing to

investigate the safety and effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. A

panel of nine psychiatrists, many with financial ties to

pharmaceutical companies, heard chilling testimony from medical

experts as well as the victims of these drugs --– and did nothing.

 

It wasn't until 13 years later, on October 15, 2004, that the FDA

finally ordered pharmaceutical companies to add a " black box " warning

to antidepressants, saying the drugs could cause suicidal thoughts and

actions in children and teenagers. It took nine months for the FDA to

issue another advisory warning doctors to watch for suicidal behavior

in adults taking antidepressants.

 

The FDA advisories vindicated CCHR's allegations and patient and

family testimony in 1991. However millions of men, women and children

have been needlessly subjected to dangerous drugs for more than a

decade. Now, with controversy growing over the previously undisclosed

dangers of psychiatric drugs, international warnings are being issued

at escalating rates.

 

On September 29, Health Canada asked all the makers of drugs used for

ADHD to submit data from all clinical trials and post-marketing

reports by the end of 2005. The data will be examined following its

submission in the new year. The drugs that will be reviewed are

Concerta, Adderall XR, Dexadrine, Ritalin and Attenade; drugs which

are given to children for ADHD.

 

Now in just the past twelve months, 16 warnings have been issued on

the previously undisclosed dangers of psychiatric drugs. This comes on

the heels of public awareness campaigns by watchdog organizations,

independent medical doctors, patients and their families repeatedly

requesting independent evaluations of clinical drug trials and

accountability for the harm and loss of lives. While drug regulatory

agencies such as the FDA and Health Canada may be accountable for

failing to act sooner, it should be noted that psychiatrists have been

their advisors, and have a vested interest in maintaining a

multi-billion dollar psychiatric drug industry.

 

Brian Beaumont, spokesperson for the Vancouver Chapter of the Citizens

Commission on Human Rights said, " The UN, the FDA, Health Canada and

the European Commission should be encouraged to seek out and eradicate

the source of the problem—psychiatrists who have misled governments,

medical agencies and the public into believing their trumped up

disorders such as ADHD actually exist. It is baffling how the

psychiatric industry has bamboozled the population into believing that

they are the authorities in the field of mental health when they are

not. Their only solutions to difficulties in life are dangerous drugs

and electric shock " .

 

There are no blood tests, X-rays, brain scans or any

scientific/medical means by which psychiatry's diagnoses can be

verified. Subsequently millions of men women and children have been

wrongly diagnosed as mentally ill, and prescribed dangerous and

potentially lethal psychiatric drugs.

 

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established in 1969 by the

Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations

of human rights. For more information and a complete list of recent

government inquiries go to www.cchr.org.

 

 

Posted 10/29/2005 5:39 PM