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

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Mental Health Parity

While 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…

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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.

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CCHR: Exposing the Dangers of Antidepressants and Other Psychotropic Drugs—Despite FDA/Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Cover-Ups

Vested 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.

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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…

UPDATED Apr 22, 2008

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International Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs Causing Hostility, Aggression, Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior/Ideation

1991 through Feb 5, 2008

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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…”

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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…

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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…

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Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual Link to Drug Manufacturers

A Financial Vested Interest Harming in the Name of Mental Health Care

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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…

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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…

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Psychiatry, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the FDA—a destructive alliance endangering the lives of children

The 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…

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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…

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Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects

Thomas Moore, author of Prescriptions for Disaster said that the current use of drugs like Ritalin is taking “appalling risks” with a generation of kids. The drug is given, he said, for “short-term control of behavior—not to reduce any identifiable hazard to [children's] health. Such large-scale chemical control of human behavior has not been previously undertaken in our society outside of nursing homes and mental institutions.”¹…

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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…

UPDATED 2008

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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”

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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

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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.…

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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…

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Global Burden of Disease

Flanking 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…

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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.

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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…

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Joint Resolution of Intergovernmental & Inter-tribal Affairs and Education & Training Policy Committees

National 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…

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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.

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Electroshock Model Legislation

MODEL REGULATIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY LAW TO PROVIDE WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE (ELECTROSHOCK) THERAPY.

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Deadly Restraint Model Legislation

REGULATION TO BE ENACTED AS LAW PREVENTING THE USE OF PHYSICAL OR MECHANICAL RESTRAINT PROCEDURES IN PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES.

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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.

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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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