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30 Nov, -0001
Press Releases
CCHR Documentary Warning About Psychiatric Drug Risks Wins Two Telly Awards
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) documentary, The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? received two Telly Bronze Awards, recognizing its importance in raising awareness about psychotropic drug risks. It won awards for documentaries and "social responsibility." The 13-chapter documentary exposes how pharmaceutical companies and psychiatric researchers have covered up debilitating and even fatal adverse drug effects, including suicide, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes. Psychotropic drugs are estimated to cause 42,000 deaths worldwide.
An estimated 2,000 of these were Australians under the age of 19 taking antidepressants and antipsychotics.1 CCHR describes it as the definitive documentary about "informed consent rights" for mental health drugs; if GPs and consumers are better informed, deaths could be dramatically reduced, the group said.
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Antidepressant Birth Defects Complaints on the Rise
GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of antidepressants such as Aropax, has seen an increased number of lawsuits related to SSRI antidepressants causing birth defects. Last October a Philadelphia court ordered GSK to pay $2.5 million to the parents of a child born with heart defects. SSRI drugs have been linked to serious lung and heart defects in newborns when women have taken them during pregnancy.
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CCHR Documentary Warning About Psychiatric Drug Risks Wins Two Telly Awards
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) documentary, The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? received two Telly Bronze Awards, recognizing its importance in raising awareness about psychotropic drug risks. It won awards for documentaries and "social responsibility." The 13-chapter documentary exposes how pharmaceutical companies and psychiatric researchers have covered up debilitating and even fatal adverse drug effects, including suicide, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes. Psychotropic drugs are estimated to cause 42,000 deaths worldwide.
An estimated 2,000 of these were Australians under the age of 19 taking antidepressants and antipsychotics.1 CCHR describes it as the definitive documentary about "informed consent rights" for mental health drugs; if GPs and consumers are better informed, deaths could be dramatically reduced, the group said.
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CCHR Increases Investigation Into Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Conflicts of Interest in Oz After Calls for Millions More Dollars to Drug Kids
March 18: Jan Eastgate, President Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, returned to Australia this week from CCHR's headquarters in Los Angeles following calls by leading Australian psychiatrists for the federal government to hand over $200 million to fund programmes that could lead to tens of thousands more children and youths being drugged.
She said Australian psychiatrists are pushing a biological drug model that drug regulatory agencies have warned could place children at risk of suicide, heart irregularities, hallucinations, psychosis and death. She is investigating those deaths, in light of evidence CCHR Australia has obtained.
ADHD Drugs Can Permanently Increase Blood Pressure
CCHR Calls for Australian Draft ADHD Guidelines to be Scrapped: Landmark Study Shows ADHD drugs can Permanently Increase Blood Pressure.
The release of the landmark Raine Study in Western Australia that shows ADHD drugs worsen academic performance and dangerously increase diastolic blood pressure (the pressure between heart beats) has prompted calls for the Draft ADHD Guidelines to be scrapped. This side effect can predispose children to the risk of heart attacks and stroke.
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NEW ADHD GUIDELINES SELLING AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN DOWN THE DRUG DRAIN
Documentary Exposes the Truth about the Psychotropic Drugs.
The new federal ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) guidelines warning doctors not to use stimulant drugs as a first option for the treatment of the condition will have little effect, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights stated. The group says that for years the risks of these drugs, including death, has been known and Australian psychiatrists ignored the warning signals. The group points, as an example, to the 2004 Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) warning recommending that any use of SSRI antidepressants in children and adolescents should be carefully monitored for the emergence of suicidal ideation and behaviour.
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NEW FEDERAL ADHD GUIDELINES HALTED DUE TO UNDISCLOSED DRUG COMPANY CONNECTIONS OF US PSYCHIATRIST
Call for Full Disclosure of Australian Committee Members Vested Interests.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Draft ADHD Guidelines have been halted under a cloud of controversy as it was revealed that US psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Biederman, is currently under U.S. Congressional investigation for his undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Biederman, whose studies are cited more than 70 times in the draft ADHD guidelines, has confessed to receiving up to US$1.6 million to research and promote specific drugs, clearly a conflict of interest.
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Child Drugging