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HOOKING YOUR WORLD ON DRUGS

A Public Service Report from Citizens Commission on Human Rights

PSYCHIATRY

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The Citizens Commission on HumanRights (CCHR) was established in 1969 bythe Church of Scientology to investigateand expose psychiatric violations of humanrights, and to clean up the field of mentalhealing. Its co-founder is Dr. ThomasSzasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus andan internationally renowned author. Today,CCHR has more than 130 chapters in over30 countries. Its board of advisors, calledCommissioners, includes doctors, lawyers,educators, artists, business professionals,and civil and human rights representatives.

CCHR has inspired and caused manyhundreds of reforms by testifying beforelegislative hearings and conducting publichearings into psychiatric abuse, as well asworking with media, law enforcement andpublic officials the world over.

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1 Beverly K. Eakman, “Anything That Ails You,Women on Tranqs in a Self-Serve Society,”Chronicles, Aug. 2004.

2 Victor Cordoba, “Psiquiatria Guerra a la melancho-lia Aumenta el uso de antidepresivos en Espana,” – El Mundo, 20 Feb. 1997, website address:http://www.el-mundo.es/salud/1997/235/01762.html;“Prohibido estar Triste,” 17 Nov. 2003, address:http://www.quo.wanadoo.es/quo/carticu-los/10017.html.

3 Anil Dawar, “Prozac ‘found in tapwater,’” Daily Mail, 9 Aug. 2004.

4 Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash, (Simon & Schuster, NY, 2000), p. 192.

5 Ibid. p. 193.

6 Ty. C. Colbert, Ph.D., Rape of the Soul: How the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatryhas Failed its Patients (Kevco Publishing, California, 2001), p. 97.

7 Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy,(The Free Press, NY, 1997), p. 265.

8 Ibid.9 Brian Vastig, “Pay Attention: Ritalin Acts

Much Like Cocaine,” Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, August 22/29, 2001, Vol. 286, No. 8, p. 905.

10 DSM-III-R, (American Psychiatric Association,Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 136.

11 Op. cit., Colbert, p. 78.12 Ibid. p. 117.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1Humane hospitals should replace coercive psychiatricinstitutions. These must have medical diagnosticequipment, which non-psychiatric medical doctorscan use to thoroughly examine and test for all under-lying physical problems that may be manifesting asdisturbed behavior.

2 The pernicious influence of psychiatry has wreakedhavoc throughout society. Citizen groups andresponsible government officials should worktogether to expose and abolish psychiatry’s hiddenmanipulation of society.

3 If you or a relative or friend have been falselyimprisoned in a psychiatric facility, assaulted,abused or damaged by a mental health practitioner,seek attorney advice about filing a civil suit againstany offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital,associations and teaching institutions.

Caution: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the adviceand assistance of a competent non-psychiatric medical doctor.

15© 2004 CCHR. All Rights Reserved. CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CCHR and theCCHR logo are trademarks and service marks owned by Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Printedin the U.S.A. Item #FLO 19137

This publication was made possible by a grant from the United StatesInternational Association of Scientologists Members’ Trust.

“Psychiatrists have ensured that more and more

people are being deceived into thinking that the best answer to

life’s many routine problems andchallenges lies with the ‘latest and

greatest’ psychiatric drug.” — Jan Eastgate

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condition can alter the patient’s temperament.In my practice, I have run across countless peo-ple with chronic back pain who were labeledneurotic. A typical statement from these poorpatients is ‘I thought I really was going crazy.’”The problem may be “simply an undiagnosedligament problem in their back.”

There are many childhood problems thatcan appear to be symptoms of so-called“ADHD,” but which are, in fact, either allergicreactions or the result of a lack of vitamins ornutrition in the body. More often than not, chil-dren simply need educational solutions.Tutoring, and learning how to effectively study,can save the child from a life of unnecessary andharmful psychiatric drugs.

Mental healing treatments should begauged by how they improve and strengthenindividuals, responsibility, spiritual well-being

and thereby society.Treatment that healsshould be delivered in acalm atmosphere charac-terized by tolerance, safety,security and respect forpeople’s rights.

And a workable andhumane mental health system is what the CitizensCommission on HumanRights is working for.

While life is full of problems, and

sometimes those problems can be

overwhelming, it is important for you to

know that psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs are the wrong

way to go.

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W hat is one of the most destructive things inyour world today?

If you answered drugs, then you sharethat view with the majority of people in your commu-nity. Illegal drugs, and their resultant violence andcrime, are recognized as a major threat to children andsociety.

However, very few people recognize that illegaldrugs represent only part of today’s drug problem.During the last 40 to 50 years there have been majorworldwide changes in our reliance on another type ofdrug, namely prescription psychiatric drugs.

Once reserved for the mentally disturbed, today itwould be difficult to find someone—a family member, afriend or a neighbor—who hasn’t taken some form ofpsychiatric drug. In fact, these have become such a partof life for many people that “life without drugs” issimply unimaginable.

Prescribed for everything from learning and behav-ioral problems, to bedwetting, aggression, juveniledelinquency, criminality, drug addiction, and smoking,to handling the fears and problems of our elderly, fromthe cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with infor-mation pushing us towards this type of chemical “fix.”

Little surprise then that worldwide statistics showa rapidly increasing percentage of every age group,from children to the elderly, rely heavily and routinelyon these drugs in their daily lives. Worldwide sales ofantidepressants were more than $19.5 billion (!15.6 bil-lion) in 2002 alone. Antipsychotic drug sales havereached more than $12 billion (!9.8 billion).

Meanwhile authors Richard Hughes and RobertBrewin, in their book The Tranquilizing of America,warned that although psychotropic, mind-alteringdrugs may appear “to ‘take the edge off’ anxiety, pain,and stress, they also take the edge off life itself … thesepills not only numb the pain but numb the wholemind.” In fact, close study reveals that none of them can

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W hile life is full of problems, and some-times those problems can be over-whelming, it is important to know

that psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs arethe wrong direction to go. The drugs can onlychemically mask problems and symptoms; theycannot and never will be able to solve problems.Once the drug has worn off, the original prob-lem remains. As a solution or cure to life’s prob-lems, they do not work.

Meanwhile, numerous safe and workablealternatives do exist, solutions that psychiatristsrefuse to recognize.

Dr. Thomas Dorman, a member of theRoyal College of Physicians of the UnitedKingdom and Canada says, “…emotional stressassociated with a chronic illness or a painful

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cure, all have horrific side effects, and due to theiraddictive and damaging properties, all are capable ofruining a person’s life.

Consider also the fact that terrorists have used psychotropic drugs to brainwash young men intobecoming suicide bombers. Additionally, at least250,000 children worldwide, some as young as seven,are being used for terrorist and revolutionary activi-ties and given amphetamines and tranquilizers to goon “murderous binges” for days. Yet these are thesame drugs that psychiatrists are prescribing childrenfor “learning” or “behavioral” problems.

How did millions become hooked on such destruc-tive drugs? We need to look at life before the drug.

Before becoming hooked, each individual was convinced that these drugs would help him or her tohandle life. The primary sales tool that was used wasan invented diagnostic system, the AmericanPsychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM) and the mentaldisorders section of Europe’s International Classificationof Diseases (ICD). Once diagnosed and the prescrip-tion filled, the destructive properties of the drugsthemselves took over.

Forcing widespread implementation of thisdiagnostic sham, psychiatrists have ensured thatmore and more people with no serious mental prob-lem, even no problem at all, are being deceived intothinking that the best answer to life’s many routinedifficulties and challenges lies with the “latest andgreatest” psychiatric drug.

Whether you are a legislator, a parent of school-aged children, a teacher, an employer or employee,or simply a community member, this publication isvital reading.

Our failure in the war against drugs is duelargely to our failure to put a stop to the mostdamaging of all drug pushers in society.

This is the psychiatrist at work today, busydeceiving us and hooking our world on drugs.

Jan EastgatePresident, Citizens Commissionon Human Rights International

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Europe were in Switzerland, Iceland, theNetherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany,Belgium, and Luxemburg. In Britain the stimu-lant prescription rate for children increased9,200% between 1992 and 2000. Spain reports asteady 8% annual increase in Ritalin consumptionbetween 1992 and 2001.

In 2003, the British medicine regulatoryagency warned doctors not to prescribe SSRI anti-depressants (such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor)for under-18 year olds because of the risk of sui-

cide. The following year,the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA)issued a similar warning,as did Australian, Can-adian and Europeanagencies. Over a 10-yearperiod, one of these antidepressants was asso-ciated with more hospi-talizations, deaths, orother serious adversereactions reported to theFDA than any other drugin history.12

The FDA also or-dered that a “black box”label be placed on SSRIbottles warning of sui-cide risk.

However, childrenare dying, are killing oth-ers or being turned intoaddicts because of these,and other psychiatricdrugs. Their future willonly be safeguardedwhen the unscientific“mental disorders” theyare diagnosed with areabolished and dangerouspsychotropic drugs areprohibited.

“A child who sees a DSM-oriented doctor is almost assured of a

psychiatric label and a prescription, even if thechild is perfectly fine. ...

This willy-nilly labeling ofvirtually everyone as men-

tally ill is a serious danger tohealthy children becausevirtually all children have

enough symptoms to get aDSM label and a drug.”

— Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist, neurologist,

author of A Dose of Sanity

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CCHHAAPPTTEERR OONNEEPUSHING DRUGSAS ‘MEDICINES’

F ifty years ago, people understood a drug tobe one of two things: a substance legally pre-scribed by a medical doctor to help treat

physical disease—in other words, a medication; or,an illegal substance which characteristically causedaddiction, and could lead to a marked change inconsciousness—such as the “street” drugs heroinand opium.

Most people know that illegal drugs are one ofsociety’s worst enemies, bringing crime and itsassociated ills to our streets, communities andschools.

In the last few decades, however, a new breedof drug has moved into mainstream society. Thesedrugs have become so much a part of life that manyfind it difficult to consider living even a day with-out them.

Psychiatric drugs have become a panacea forthe pressures and stresses of modern living, usedextensively in schools, nursing homes, drug

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Administration (DEA) said the main stimulant usedto treat “ADHD” could lead to addiction and that“psychotic episodes, violent behavior and bizarremannerisms had been reported” with its use.8

! A 2001 Journal of the American MedicalAssociation study found the stimulant to be morepotent than cocaine. 9

! Suicide is a major complication of with-drawal from this stimulant and similar amphet-amine-like drugs.10

! Clinical psychologist Ty C. Colbert says thatwhen behaviors are “viewed as pathology, however,doctors will prescribe drugs under the guise of bal-ancing a chemical imbalance. Yet, because there is noimbalance, all the drugs do is chemically restrict thebrain’s capabilities.”11

According to Dr.Sydney Walker, author ofThe Hyperactivity Hoax, “achild who sees a DSM-ori-ented doctor is almostassured of a psychiatric labeland a prescription, even ifthe child is perfectly fine. …This willy-nilly labeling ofvirtually everyone as men-tally ill is a serious danger tohealthy children, becausevirtually all children haveenough symptoms to get a DSM label and a drug.”

“Hyperactivity is not a disease,” he said. “It’s ahoax perpetrated by doctors who have no ideawhat’s really wrong with these children.”

TODAY’S DRUGGED CULTUREIn the United States today, more than eight

million children have been put on mind-alteringpsychiatric drugs. In Australia, the stimulant pre-scription rate for children increased 34-fold in thepast two decades. In Mexico, sales of one stimu-lant increased 800% between 1993 and 2001.

The Council of Europe ParliamentaryAssembly reported that, in 2000, the highest ratesof methylphenidate (Ritalin) consumption in

“ADHD is a phenomena,not a ‘brain disease.’...Children are being forced to take a drug thatis stronger than cocainefor a disease that is yet to be proven.”

— Beverly Eakman, author, president, NationalEducation Consortium

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rehabilitation centers and prisons. They are relied on to“help” with everything from weight control, andmathematical and writing problems, to flagging self-confidence, anxiety, sleeping disorders and minor day-to-day upsets.

While medical drugs commonly treat, prevent orcure disease or improve health, psychiatric drugs atbest suppress symptoms—symptoms that return oncethe drug wears off. Like illicit drugs, they provide nomore than a temporary escape from life’s problems.

But psychiatric drugs are also habit-forming andaddictive. Withdrawal from them can be far more dif-ficult than from illegal drugs. The clearest evidence ofthe similarities between psychiatric and illegal drugs isthe fact that addiction to psychiatric drugs now rivalsillegal drug addiction as the No. 1 drug problem inmany parts of the world.

Yet, such dangerous and problem-ridden drugshave become widely accepted in society.

At least 17 million people worldwide are pre-scribed minor tranquilizers, with “Western Europeancountries facing epidemic levels of citizens beinghooked on tranquilizers as well as antidepressants,”author Beverly Eakman reports.1 In Spain, the use ofantidepressants rose 247% in the 1990s, with the salesof antidepressants increasing three-fold and anti-anxiety drugs by four-fold since 2000.2 In 2004 inBritain, scientists discovered that one SSRI is con-sumed in such large quantities that traces of it are nowin the country’s drinking water. According to an envi-ronmental spokesperson, Norman Baker, MP, “Thislooks like a case of hidden mass medication of theunsuspecting public and is potentially a very worryinghealth issue.”3

Coincidentally,the world today is suffering from mas-sive social problemsthat are internationalin scope, includingincreased drug abuseand violence.

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CCHHAAPPTTEERR TTHHRREEEETHE HOAX OF

LEARNING ‘DISORDERS’

I n today’s world, there are very few families orteachers whose lives have not been interruptedin some way by the widespread drugging of

children with prescribed, mind-altering drugs. For the millions of children around the world

now on these drugs, trusted advisors were ready to answer the parents’ concerns about their child’s disorder necessitating the “medication.”Commonly, a psychiatrist or psychologist told theseparents that their child suffers from a disorder affect-ing his or her ability to learn—commonly known asa Learning Disorder (LD). The disorder is alsolabeled Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or mostcommonly today, Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder (ADHD).

There are numerous risks associated with the pre-scription of mind-altering drugs for so-called behav-ioral or learning disorders. Ashort list of these follows:

! In 1995, the U.S. Drug Enforcement

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I t may be stating the obvious, but for a doctor tolegally prescribe a drug, there has to be some sortof agreed-upon diagnosis, some standard by

which to act, that would include agreed-upon, legiti-mate physical symptoms. This isn’t the case withpsychiatry.

Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullenexplains: “In medicine, strict criteria exist for calling a condition a disease. In addition to a predictable cluster of symptoms, the cause of thesymptoms or some understanding of their physiolo-gy [function] must be established. This knowledgeelevates the diagnosis to the status of recognized dis-ease. For example, ‘fever’ is not a disease, it is mere-ly a symptom. In the absence of known cause orphysiology (function), a cluster of symptoms thatone sees repeatedly in many different patients iscalled a syndrome, not a disease.”4 In psychiatry,

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their communities can be explained by a psychiatriclabel and eradicated by a pill. Certainly, there areplenty of problems that we all have and a myriad ofpeculiar ways that we struggle...to cope with them.But could life be any different? Far too often, thepsychiatric bible has been making us crazy—whenwe are just human.”7

With the DSM, psychiatry has at its disposal an expanding list of supposed mental disorders, and for each of them a psychiatric drug can be legally prescribed.

“we do not yet have proof either of the cause of thephysiology for any psychiatric diagnosis. … Thediagnoses are called disorders because none of themhave established diseases.”5

Reputable physicians agree that for a disease tobe accurately diagnosed and treated, there must be a

tangible, objective, physicalabnormality that can be deter-mined through tests such as,but not limited to, blood orurine, X-ray, brain scan orbiopsy. It is the consensus ofmany medical professionalsthat, contrary to psychiatricassertion, no scientific evi-dence exists that would provethat “mental disorders” are“brain-based diseases” or thata chemical imbalance in thebrain is responsible.

Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D. says,“We know that the chemical

imbalance model for mental illness has never beenscientifically proven.”6

The development of the sixth edition of theWorld Health Organization’s InternationalClassification of Diseases (ICD) in 1948, which incor-porated psychiatric disorders (as diseases) for thefirst time, and the publication of the AmericanPsychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in theUnited States in 1952, provided an apparent diag-nostic system.

However, a disorder becomes qualified by aconsensus process which involves a mere show of“expert” hands—the key question being, “Do youthink this is a disorder or not, yes or no?”

Obviously people can and do experience seriousmental difficulties and need help. However profes-sors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors ofMaking Us Crazy, warn: “The public at large maygain false comfort from a diagnostic psychiatricmanual that encourages belief in the illusion that theharshness, brutality, and pain in their lives and in

The DSM is “an arrogant fraud. ...

To make some kind of pretense that

this is a scientific statement is...

damaging to the culture.”

— Ron Leifer, New York Psychiatrist

Presented in countless illus-trations in popular magazines,the brain has been dissectedand labeled and analyzed,while assailing the publicwith the latest theory of whatis wrong with the brain. Whatis lacking, as with all psychi-atric theory, is scientific fact.As Dr. Elliot Valenstein (right)explained, “There are no testsavailable for assessing thechemical status of a liv-ing person’s brain.”

THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE LIEBOGUS BRAIN THEORY:

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