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CCHR's Information PamphletsAll 20 of CCHR's Informational Pamphlets.
Solutions for Better Mental Health
People do have problems in life, sometimes very serious. Mental difficulties do exist, people's hopes and dreams can be shattered and their methods of coping with this can fail. However, with such prevalence of mind-altering psychiatric drugs that damage the body, psychiatrists are not healing, but creating addicts and life-long patients.…
False Studies to Solicit Funds
Arthur Kleinman, professor of psychiatry, said claiming that every second person will suffer from mental illness during their life is “medicalizing ordinary unhappiness.”2 United Press International Senior Medical Correspondent Steve Mitchell said, “The trend, which is dubbed disease mongering” by the experts, “turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic [treatment caused] harm.”3
Driving Up Insurance PremiumsAccording to psychiatrist Sander Breiner, in the Psychiatric Times, nearly 40% of psychiatrists are sued for malpractice during the course of their career in the United States.
This can impact on general medicine. A report entitled “Medical Malpractice Insurance” published by the Insurance Information Institute states: “Many insurers have scaled back their exposure to the medical malpractice market and, in some cases, exited the market completely…”
Psychiatrists Cannot Predict, Treat or Cure Violent Behavior
By their own admission psychiatrists cannot predict dangerousness and often release violent patients from facilities, claiming that they are not a threat to others, or grant them privileges that lessen security procedures in place for them. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s own Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the manual is "not sufficient to establish the existence for legal purposes of a ‘mental disorder,’ ‘mental disability,’ ‘mental disease,’ or ‘mental defect,’" in relation to competency, criminal responsibility or disability.1
1 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition, (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), p. xxiii.
Psychiatric Abuses in New York State
The report covers:
Deaths and abuse, crime (including massive fraud in New York State), patient abuses (including an involuntary commitment case that goes to the issue of psychiatrists’ inability to determine dangerousness), psychiatric escapees causing harm, psychiatric experiments in New York.
Mental Health Fraud: Big Business
In 1991 in Dallas, Texas, two uniformed security guards in a patrol car pulled up beside 14-year-old Jeramy Harrel and took him, against his will and his mother’s protests, to a private psychiatric hospital owned by Psychiatric Institutes of America (PIA), a subsidiary of National Medical Enterprises (NME). A psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bowlan, and a child welfare agent—who had never spoken with Jeramy or his parents—had filed an application to the court for the boy’s detention, claiming he was a “substance abuser” and that his grandparents had physically abused him…
Cunning Psychiatric FraudThe insurance company Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, USA, reported that there are as many types of health insurance fraud as the "criminal mind can invent." 1 [Emphasis added] The following is a small sample of convictions.
1 “What is Fraud, Types of Health Insurance Fraud,” BlueCross & BlueShield United of Wisconsin.
Mental Health Care: What is the Alternative to Psychotropic Drugs? White Paper
Alternative ways of helping those suffering from mental disturbance are buried by the marketing hype that “mental illness” is the result of some neurobiological dysfunction or chemical imbalance that can only be corrected with psychotropic drugs. There is no scientific merit to these claims but they support drug sales of more than $27 billion a year in the United States and $80 billion worldwide.…
NEW Mar 31, 2008 
Mental Health ParityWhile some patient advocacy groups, heavily funded by drug interests, and the mental health lobby purport that mental illness is like a physical disease such as diabetes, cancer, or epilepsy, scientific evidence simply doesn't substantiate this. On the contrary, there is no parity in the diagnosis of mental health problems compared to real physical conditions that can be accurately tested for and diagnosed. Psychiatrists admit they cannot distinguish between a mental disorder and no mental disorder…
Psychiatric Drugs & Your Child's Future
This very easy to read 16-page booklet simply asks parents to become aware of their options: question the information given them that their child has a "chemical imbalance" in the brain requiring a drug that could cause hallucinations, psychosis, suicide and death.
"Psychiatric Drugs & Your Child's Future" doesn't dictate what parents must do; it just tells them to use their best parental judgment. However, in order to do this, they need to be informed.
CCHR: Exposing the Dangers of Antidepressants and Other Psychotropic Drugs—Despite FDA/Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Cover-UpsVested Interests Inventing “Chemical Imbalance” Theory to Sell Drugs
Preamble: In the interests of consumer protection, this report is a history of the coverup of antidepressant risks and CCHR's vigilant exposure of this and other dangerous psychotropic drugs. Parents, whistleblowers and legislators are also among the many that saw the need to warn others about these drugs and how vested interest groups fought to ensure consumers didn't know the truth. This is a resource document for anyone who wants to know the facts. The report tracks key events spanning 20 years and is a resource for those wanting the facts.
List of Recent School and Teen Shooters
12 Recent teen/school shooters under the influence of psychiatric drugs resulting in 54 killed and 105 wounded…
International Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs Causing Hostility, Aggression, Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior/Ideation1991 through Feb 5, 2008
WHEN PRESCRIBING PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS BECOMES CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE: Cases and Convictions
On January 22, 2008, acclaimed Australian actor, Heath Ledger, died from an accidental overdose of six types of prescribed painkillers and sedatives. Ellen Borakove, spokesperson for the New York Medical Examiner's office, said the cause of death was “acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam [Valium], temazepam [Restoril], alprazolam [Xanax] and…”
Psychiatric Drugs and Anger Management Curricula: A Perspective on School Violence
In determining any policy regarding school violence or in assessing potential common characteristics of teens responsible for school shootings and violence, the role of prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs and psychological programs must be considered…
Blaming The Brain: The “Chemical Imbalance” Fraud
The cornerstone of psychiatry’s disease model today is the theory that a brain-based, chemical imbalance causes mental illness. However, Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of Public Affairs of the American Psychiatric Association said that this theory was “probably drug industry derived.”1 His cohort, Dr. Steven Sharfstein, APA president, was forced under media pressure to admit that there is “no clean cut lab test” to determine a chemical imbalance in the brain.2
1 Interview of Dr. Mark Graff on CBS Studio 2, July 2005.
2 “All Fired Up,” People magazine, 11 July 2005
The Silent Death of America's Children
Today, the mental health treatment of our young is a life or death gamble and, given the growing number of fatalities, a roll of the dice not to be taken lightly. No longer is it a question of whether children die from psychiatric treatments, but rather whose child will be next. It's a question of whether parents are willing to bet their child's life on subjective psychiatric diagnoses and dangerous mind-altering drugs and treatments…
Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual Link to Drug Manufacturers
A Financial Vested Interest Harming in the Name of Mental Health Care
The “Science” Without a SoulOne of the essential problems with psychology today is its reliance upon psychiatric or biological behavioral models—a far cry from its foundations. Psychology once followed early philosophy and initially meant the study of the soul—psyche (soul) and ology (study of). The general thought was that the mind and body were separate entities. Thus, each man and woman was regarded as a composite of soul, mind and matter.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, A Report by Acclaimed Writer Robert Whitaker
Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in sever mental illness in the United States. … A review of the scientific literature reveals that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this epidemic. The drugs increase the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, and induce new and more severe psychiatric symptoms in a significate percentage of patients…
Adolescent Suicide Rate, Not Due To Black Box Warnings
Prompted by psychiatrists with their own vested interests in pharmaceutical sales, the media has spun the blame for the rise in the suicide rate for children on the “black box” warning labels placed on antidepressants…
Psychiatry, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the FDA—a destructive alliance endangering the lives of childrenThe alliance between members of the American Psychiatric Association, pharmaceutical companies and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is placing millions of children's lives at risk. The FDA is relying upon psychiatric theories about “mental disorders” and, in doing so, is not protecting the public health of American citizens…
Flaws in the NIMH-Funded Study Suicide Risk During Antidepressant Treatment
The findings of the study by Simon, et al. are being used to attempt to refute the FDA's warnings of suicide risk with the use of SSRI antidepressants. 1. The FDA arrived at their conclusions to put a “black box” warning on antidepressants based on…
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Flaws in the NIMH-Funded Study “Evaluation of Outcomes with Citalopram [Celexa] for Depression Using Measurement-Based Care… Implications for Clinical Practice”This is a study that has been recently touted in the media as “new,” showing that SSRI antidepressants can be effective in the treatment of depression. However, the findings of this study show a remarkably low percentage of people actually had a remission (lessening) of symptoms…
Report on the Escalating International Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs
In 1990, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) asked American psychiatrists 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. 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…
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Texas Medication Algorithm Project: Allen Jones Blows the Whistle on doctors
My name is Allen Jones. I am a “whistleblower” who has sought the protection of the federal courts to tell the following story. I am employed as an Investigator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General (OIG), Bureau of Special Investigations…
The Drugging of "Post-Partum Depression"
Many people think that psychiatric disorders, such as depression or post partum [after birth] depression, are the same as medical diseases or illnesses. However, this is very misleading for someone, especially a mother who has expereienced the trauma of just giving birth. To have them think the emotional roller coaster they may be experiencing is the result of a “chemical imbalance in the brain,” requiring mind-altering medication, is false and potentially very harmful…
False and Misleading Advertising by Psychiatric Groups
This report has been written in the public interest to reveal the largely untold story of the psychiatric lobby and its “advocacy” groups that frequently convey biased opinion about mental illness and the need for psychiatric medication to treat it. Much of their published material passes theory off as fact, thereby misleading parents and consumers…
National Medical Enterprises (NME) raid article
National Medical's facilities were raided by hundreds of FBI and other federal agents in a broad investigation of possible criminal misconduct by the hospital operator…
Columbia University "Expert" Panel Too Biased To Impartially Review Suicidal Effects of Antidepressant Drugs…The FDA has also been criticized over its drug approval regulations that have allowed manufacturers to provide information that is biased towards favorable results. On June 2, the New York State Attorney General…
CBS 48 Hours—A Mouthpiece For The Psychiatric/Pharma Cabal
It is no wonder that a recent CBS 48 Hours show claimed that “schizophrenia” was a physically based mental “disease” requiring debilitating antipsychotic drugs. CBS receives nearly $600 million a year in drug-company advertising revenue and the antipsychotic drugs manufactured by CBS's sponsors are very profitable…
Mental Health Screening in Schools Leads to Dangerous Child Drugging
In 2003 a report on “mental health care” presented to the federal government recommended that all 52 million American schoolchildren be screened for “mental illness,” claiming—without a shred of scientific evidence—that “early detection, assessment, and links with treatment” could “prevent mental health problems from worsening&hellip”
Skyrocketing Mental Health Costs
A Matter of Fraud.
"Everyone is neurotic. I have no trouble giving out diagnoses. In my office I only see abnormal people. Out of my office, I see only normal people. It's up to me. It's just a joke. This is what I mean by this fraud, this arrogant fraud… To make some kind of pretension that this is a scientific statement is…damaging to the culture…"1 — Ron Leifer, New York psychiatrist
Does Insanity Cause Crime? by Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.
The following essay is reproduced here by permission of Sheldon Richman, Editor, Ideas on Liberty. Ideas on Liberty is published by The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533.
Szasz, T. “Does insanity ‘cause’ crime?” Ideas on Liberty, 50: 31‐32 (March), 2000.…
Doctors Open Letter to Governments
How concerned should we be about reports that mental illness has become an epidemic striking one out of every four people in the world today?
According to the source of these alarming reports—the psychiatric industry—mental illness threatens to engulf us all and can only be checked by immediate and massive increases in funding…
Global Burden of DiseaseFlanking the rapid development of psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Lewis Judd, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1987 to 1990, created the psychiatric marketing strategy, “Decade of the Brain,” which was signed into United States law by Presidential Proclamation. Since then, terms like “treatable brain disorder,” “no-fault brain disease” and “chemical imbalance in the brain” have been marketed…
Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights
All great organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles of CCHR and the standards against which human rights violations by psychiatry are relentlessly investigated and exposed.
Rutherford sues IN school for mental health screening without consent
South Bend, IN—Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on behalf of an Indiana family whose 15-year-old daughter, Chelsea Rhoades, was subjected to…
Joint Resolution of Intergovernmental & Inter-tribal Affairs and Education & Training Policy CommitteesNational Foundation for Women Legislators, Inc. September 10, 2005; WHEREAS, On March 21, 2005 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise went on a shooting rampage at home and at his school on the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, killing nine people and wounding five before committing suicide, and…
Committee on Quackery Hides Psychotropic Drug Proliferation
The 1963-1974 American Medical Association Committee on Quackery set out to discredit chiropractors, with the AMA urging its members to lend “their full support to the continuing vigorous attack on medical quackery and to the education program on the cult of chiropractic.” The AMA recommended that Congress exclude payment for chiropractic services from…
Model Legislation Documents
Mental Health Screening, Child Protection and Informed Consent Act Model Legislation
REGULATION TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY LAW TO PREVENT SCHOOL SETTINGS TO BE USED FOR MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF CHILDREN WITHOUT AFFIRMATIVE WRITTEN, PARENTAL INFORMED CONSENT.
Electroshock Model Legislation
MODEL REGULATIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY LAW TO PROVIDE WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE (ELECTROSHOCK) THERAPY.
Deadly Restraint Model Legislation
REGULATION TO BE ENACTED AS LAW PREVENTING THE USE OF PHYSICAL OR MECHANICAL RESTRAINT PROCEDURES IN PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES.
Involuntary Commitment Model Legislation
TO BE ENACTED AS LAW PROHIBITING INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW AND WITH THE PROTECTION OF A PERSON'S RIGHT TO LIBERTY.
Model Sexual Exploitation by Therapist Law
Any person who is or who holds oneself out to be a therapist and who intentionally has sexual contact with a patient or client during any treatment, consultation, interview or examination or while maintaining a therapist/patient relationship is guilty of a felony…
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