CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

The National Office for Australia and New Zealand

In Australia – Citizen Committee on Human Rights Inc.

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CCHR What we Believe

What CCHR Believe

Drugging Our Children

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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Making a Killing DVD

SPECIAL Making a Killing Award-winning documentary DVD. $15 Order online.

TOURING EXHIBIT

STATE-OF-THE-ART TOURING EXHIBIT TARGETS PSYCHIATRY AS AN "INDUSTRY OF DEATH"

With public distrust of psychiatry mounting - and government agency warnings about psychiatric drugs at an all-time high - an exhibit continually touring Australian and New Zealand shows that it could get much worse.

Denouncing the fact that internationally more than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions and an estimated 15,000 prescriptions of antidepressants are written for children under 10 in Australia, the National Office for Australia and New Zealand of the international organisation, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) launched a "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" exhibition on Monday (18/09/2006)at Darling Harbour. Read more »


Petitions

ADHD petition

Please Print off and sign a federal petition calling for an Inquiry into ADHD and Boxed Warnings on all ADHD drugs in Australia

TGA

Please Print off and sign a federal petition for the Therapeutic Goods Administration to require drug companies to place onto their packaging information that consumers can report adverse drug reactions to the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

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