Targeting Children

“All children exhibit ADHD-like behavior. Observe children right before recess, or riding on a bus heading to an exciting field trip, or anticipating a birthday party. Nothing short of strapping them down can keep them still. Healthy children have verve—a zest for life that is exhibited in curiosity, excitement, enthusiasm, animation, vigor, and imagination.”

Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Author, Rape of the Soul

The defenseless   innocence of children has failed to soften psychiatry’s quest for profit, and   failed completely to inspire them to assess the validity, safety or consequences   of their “diagnoses,” Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or   “Learning Disorder.” Psychiatrists have no idea what “causes” them; little   wonder then that there are no objective, scientific criteria to confirm such   “disorders” even exist.

Kevin P. Dwyer, assistant   executive director at the National Association of School Psychologists in the   U.S., admitted that the way “learning disorders” are diagnosed is “not a   science.” “We’re not sophisticated enough to do a perfect diagnosis,” he   candidly admitted.

Nevertheless, a huge and entrenched psychiatric   treatment and research empire has mushroomed around ADHD. That empire demands   and consumes billions of dollars each year and has turned schools into   mental health clinics, and mentally and physically hooked millions of normal   children on mind-altering drugs.

Today, American schools spend a combined $1 billion a year on psychologists who work full-time to diagnose students. Annually, $15 billion has been spent in the U.S. on the diagnosis, treatment and study of psychiatry’s so-called “disorders.”

CCHR What we Believe

Drugging Our Children

RECOGNITION OF CCHR

CCHR's humanitarian work has been recognised the world over for ensuring legal rights and protections for consumers and/or their families. Read more...

DRUG WARNINGS

CCHR led the fight for informed consent to psychiatric treatment, obtaining the first law in South Australia in 1979 that granted patients the right to consent to or refuse electroshock treatment. In recent years, it has filed numerous requests to the Therapeutic Goods Administration to reveal all the adverse drug reactions for psychotropic drugs reported to it. Click here to read more

DRUG SIDE EFFECTS

No matter what country someone is prescribed a psychiatric drug, the side effects are the same: dangerous, sometimes life-threatening, but always debilitating. CCHR International in Los Angeles decoded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration psychotropic drug reports database to produce this drug side effects search engine for consumers. This is also relevant to all Australians. You can also view a selection of ADHD drug reactions including Ritalin, Concerta, Dexamphetamine & Strattera obtained by CCHR.

Psychiatric Drugs

An Australian Report Titled, Psychiatric Drugs and Violence documents how Antidepressants and Antipsychotics can Cause Violence.
The report was written as Australians are not adequately warned that psychiatric drugs can cause homicidal actions and thoughts....

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