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Psychiatry's Prescription for Violence

Background: Exposing the Dangers

In response to compaints and evidence filed by CCHR, on September 20th, 1991 the FDA held a hearing to investigate the safety and effectiveness of the antidepressants. A panel including nine psychiatrists, many with financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, heard chilling testimony from medical experts as well as numerous victims and family members on the violent and suicidal effects of antidepressants, and did nothing. 14 years later, the FDA finally issued black box warnings on all antidepressants on suicidality. The FDA has yet to issue black box warnings on the violence inducing side effects of the drugs.

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CCHR's Public Service Announcements

CCHR's Public Service Booklet

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's Whitepapers

12 Recent Teen/School Shooters Under The Influence of Psychiatric Drugs

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

Psychiatric Drugs and Anger Management Curricula: A Perspective on School Violence

Studies on Antidepressant- Induced Violence:

PLoS Medicare Study by Psychopharmacologist David Healy, "Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medine and Law"

"Suicidality, voilence and mania caused by SSRIs: A Review & Analysis" by Psychiatrist Peter Breggin

"SSRI's, Drug Withdrawal and Abuse: Problem or Treatment?" — University of Newcastle

Study in "Behavioral Neuroscience" on increased aggression in juvenile hamsters: "Differential Responsiveness to Fluoxetine During Puberty"

Expert Discussion:

Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, appeared on ABC "Primetime Live" to discuss the often-unrecognized side effects of antidepressant drugs

Article:

Washington Times Insight Magazine "Guns & Doses, The Common Link in the High-School Shootings May Be Psychotropic Drugs Like Ritalin"

Related Sites:

Click here to visit SSRI Stories, a collection of more than 2,000 stories involving violence, suicide, etc. relating to antidepressants