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Push to Reveal Fees Paid to DoctorsA PROPOSED revision to the pharmaceutical industry's code of conduct requires pharma companies to reveal total payments to ... Read more |
Tragedy Within the Mental Health SystemA family want to know why their son was able to take his life within hours of arriving ... Read more |
Doctors Could Face Prison Over Drug PrescriptionsA leading expert in law for the elderly says some health professionals could face legal action and even ... Read more |
19,000 Kids Use Rejected 'Unsafe' ADHD Drug ConcerAN ADHD drug rejected for a government subsidy because of "uncertain safety" in adults is being subsidised for ... Read more |
ADHD Drugs Alert on KidsTASMANIA risks creating a generation of adults hooked on ADHD drugs because of its high child prescribing rate, ... Read more |
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Psychiatrists Want Ban on Dangerous Psychosurgery Lifted under Current NSW Mental Health Act Review.Public consultation may be denied prior to the draft legislation/amendments being placed before Parliament. Download PDF The NSW Mental Health Act is under review and some of the points raised in the Discussion Paper for the review are of considerable concern. Clear protections and full transparency are called for so that patient and parental rights are protected in our mental health law. This is a summary of key points proposed or currently in the existing law that need to be changed. PSYCHOSURGERY: Psychosurgery is currently ... Read more |
Deep Sleep Treatment and Chelmsford Hospital"The NSW Public Interest Advocacy Centre is celebrating its 30 years of advocacy, including its support of the Chelmsford hospital deep sleep treatment tragedy in the 1980s-90s on behalf of the victims and Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), especially CCHR's then executive director, Jan Eastgate. As PIAC notes, "That the tragedy of deep-sleep therapy was finally exposed to the public owes much to the persistence of two people who subsequently became clients of PIAC: Barry Hart, a former patient, and Jan ... Read more |
New Draft WA Mental Health Bill Set to Erode Children and Parental Rights14-year olds can agree to psychosurgery and electroshock without parental consent! After public outcry over a Draft Mental Health Bill that allowed children to consent to sterilisation without parental consent, the Mental Health Commission was forced to review the oppressive legislation. While sterilisation is now gone in the new Draft, brain damaging "treatments" still exist—including psychosurgery which hasn't been practiced in WA since the 1970s. Yet youths will now be the victims of it. The latest Draft, released in November 2012, reveals a ... Read more |
Psychiatrist Lists DSM ten most potentially harmful changesThis is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply flawed DSM 5 containing many changes that seem clearly unsafe and scientifically unsound. My best advice to clinicians, to the press, and to the general public – be skeptical and don't follow DSM 5 blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication. Just ignore ... Read more |
Use Of Antipsychotics At The Center Of Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Lawsuits Are Soaring, Prompting Concerns Pharmaceutical Companies And Psychiatrists Are Unduly Influencing Treatment Manuals And Government PolicyObtaining statistics on psychiatric drug usage, especially by age group is now (July 2012) a lengthy and costly affair—upwards of $4,000. The following is a breakdown of statistics that were not readily available to the general public, but which Citizens Commission on Human Rights obtained in 2011 from the Department of Health and Ageing. There is a shockingly low level of transparency regarding psychiatric drug use and conflicts of interests between the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatrists. Medicare has informed those seeking such ... Read more |
Alarming Federal Mental Health Commission Potential Conflicts of Interest Could lead to More Children on Mind Altering DrugsThe statistics are alarming - nearly 89,000 Australian children under 16 are on ADHD drugs, antidepressants and antipsychotics (4,429 aged between 2-6). These are drugs with often serious side-effects – and the worst – death has been linked to such drugs for 21 children under the age of 19. Combined with a 645% increased expenditure on psychiatric drugs since 1993, the alarm bells are reverberating across the country as more and more experts and parents become concerned with the rising trend of ... Read more |
Alarm at drugs for childrenLEADING psychiatrists are alarmed at the growing practice of using anti-psychotic drugs to treat preschoolers and are pushing for an inquiry into the issue. More than 759 preschoolers were prescribed anti-psychotic drugs last year and use of these medications in children aged under six has leapt 43 per cent in the past three years. Figures released by the Department of Health and Ageing show a further 3481 children aged seven to 11 are using the powerful medications, even though psychosis does not usually develop ... Read more |
US Expert Slams Patrick McGorry's Psychosis ModelPatrick McGorry's model of early diagnosis of psychosis, favoured by the federal government and the Coalition in their mental-health policies, has come under attack from a leading US psychiatrist, who warns that predicting psychosis is unreliable and could lead to patients being wrongly medicated. Allen Frances, who chaired the committee that produced the current diagnostic bible for psychiatry, the DSM-IV, has warned that Professor McGorry's Early Psychosis Intervention Centres do not have a reliable early diagnosis tool. Professor Frances, an emeritus professor at Duke ... Read more |
Rising Rate of ADHD Drugs for Kids Like RitalinChildren as young as two are increasingly being prescribed powerful stimulant drugs like Ritalin for "ADHD." 2,406 Australian children younger than six are on these drugs (1,007 of those in NSW). Australia's Draft ADHD Guidelines have been halted because of a US Congressional investigation into psychiatrist Joseph Biederman from Harvard University, who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug companies, but reportedly failed to disclose all of this income to the University. His studies were cited more than 50 times in the ... Read more |
Alarm as more kids on antidepressants"Alarm as more kids on anti-depressants" Herald Sun, 30 May 2011, read the full article on the Herald Sun website. Download the statistics of the numbers of children on antidepressants obtained from the Department of Health and Ageing. Investigation into prescribing of antidepressants to Australian children a psychiatric farce Regardless of drug regulatory agencies the world over, including Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration, warning of the serious risks–including suicide–in children and adolescents being prescribed antidepressants, even 2 year olds are being prescribed them here! In December ... Read more |
DVDs
- Whats Wrong ?
Dr. Niall McLaren, an Australian practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession. That it cannot/will not take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
Other Issues
Brain–Damaging Effects of Electroshock
Anyone who has seen electroshock (ECT) performed knows this procedure has all the marks of physical torture
Draft Victorian Mental Health Act
The Draft Victorian Mental Health Act proposes to allow for not only psychiatrists but also psychologists,
SA Mental Health Act
S.A. Mental health act could see children treated & given dangerous psychiatric drugs without any
Petition
Please Print off and sign a federal petition for the Therapeutic Goods Administration to require drug
State of the art exhibit touring Australia and New Zealand
STATE-OF-THE-ART TOURING EXHIBIT TARGETS PSYCHIATRY AS AN "INDUSTRY OF DEATH" With public distrust of
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(In Australia Citizens Committee on Human Rights Inc) does not give medical or legal advice. However, medical studies show that underlying, undiagnosed physical problems can manifest as unwanted behaviour or so-called "psychiatric" or behavioural symptoms. Parents need to know the alternatives to mind-altering damaging drugs.
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In Australia CCHR is known as the
Citizens Committee on Human Rights.
PO Box 6402 North Sydney NSW 2059
Phone: 02 9964 9844
Who is CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (In Australia Citizens Committee on Human Rights Inc) is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon. CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and the internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Syracuse. Read more