Activists Protest the Drugging of Japanese Toddlers

TOKYO, January 3, 2019 (Newswire.com) - Members of the mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) protested against psychiatrists for administering powerful psychotropic drugs to children.

Dozens of irate protesters took to the streets with bullhorns and banners at the annual congress of the Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Tokyo, demanding an end to the drugging of children. Among them was a mother whose son was prescribed three kinds of psychotropic drugs at the age of 3.

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Mental Wellness Month: Millions of U.S. Children on Dangerous Psychiatric Drugs

With millions of U.S.children on psychiatric drugs it is imperative that families know that many of these drugs are known to result in suicidal ideation.

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Rev. Frederick Shaw: Rallying the NAACP to End Psychiatric Abuse of African American Children

CCHR, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, applauds the debut of a new documentary highlighting one man’s fight against the multi-billion dollar psychiatric industry.

In a new documentary in “The Voices for Humanity” series on the Scientology TV network, human rights advocate Rev. Frederick Shaw, Jr. takes on the multi-billion dollar psychiatric interests in drugging and electroshocking children, especially in his African American community. As the international spokesperson for the international headquarters of CCHR and a Vice President of the Inglewood-South Bay branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Rev. Shaw championed the national NAACP’s unanimous passage of two resolutions opposing electroshock treatment and psychotropic drugging of children.
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Currently over 7 million U.S. children are being prescribed psychiatric drugs, with more than 600 thousand between the ages of zero to five.

With more than 7 million kids on psychiatric drugs in the U.S., the mental health watchdog, CCHR, is protesting this surge in labeling and drugging of children.

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Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care, search warrant says

Unlike many doctors, Albuquerque psychiatrist Edwin Bacon Hall, 74, accepted patients on Medicaid and saw them in a timely manner. He often treated foster children, who were sent his way with the approval of their legal guardian, the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD).

On at least one occasion in his office, he prescribed drugs while dressed as a clown. But what really drew attention was his habit of handing out pills.

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Government Violating Court Order To Stop Drugging Children In Immigrant Detention Center, Suit Claims

A federal judge issued an order at the end of July that requires the government to stop medicating children being held in detention centers without permission from a parent or legal guardian — among other things — but recent information out of a Texas shelter indicates they are failing to do so.

According to Reveal News, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee stated on July 30 that children being held at the Shiloh Treatment Center were not allowed to be kept medicated on psychiatric drugs unless a parent had given permission, or a court order was issued to do so for every individual child. Gee also ordered that any of the children in the facility who are not considered to be a danger to either themselves or others should be moved to “less restrictive housing,” and that they should all be allowed to make private phone calls.

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Psychiatric Drugs Harm Children Says Panel on World Mental Health Day

On World Mental Health Day, October 10th, a panel of experts spoke out against the psychiatric drugging of youth at the Church of Scientology Tampa in Ybor Square. The panel included Diane Stein, President Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Florida, local physician Dr. Richard Wallace, School Principal Barbie Rivera, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Candace Stewart-Sabin. They addressed a group of over 50 mental health professionals, child advocacy/education specialists and interested citizens.

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Psychiatric Drugs Harm Children Says Panel on World Mental Health Day

On World Mental Health Day, October 10th, a panel of experts spoke out against the psychiatric drugging of youth at the Church of Scientology Tampa in Ybor Square. The panel included Diane Stein, President Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Florida, local physician Dr. Richard Wallace, School Principal Barbie Rivera, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Candace Stewart-Sabin. They addressed a group of over 50 mental health professionals, child advocacy/education specialists and interested citizens.

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DRUGGING THE US: THE EPIDEMIC OF FORCED PSYCHOTROPIC PHARMACEUTICALS

The consequences arising from the massive proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States are staggering. The fallout from the pharmaceutical industry can be felt in all corners of America, by people from every background and economic standing, but recent developments revealing that immigrant children held at detention centers were forcibly drugged with a variety of psychotropic substances against their will are among the most troubling incidents to have come to the forefront of America’s pharmaceutical nightmare.

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Official Studies Report Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Increased Violence

The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health industry watchdog organization that has been investigating and collecting information on psychiatric drug links to school shooters and other acts of senseless violence since 1989, is once again calling upon lawmakers to investigate the plausible link between psychiatric drugs and the recent tragedy in Parkland.

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Mental Health Watchdog Strengthens Campaign to Protect Children from Unjust Involuntary Psychiatric Examination

Encouraged by a change to the mental health law earlier this year that now requires a minor to be examined within 12 hours after arriving at a psychiatric facility during a Baker Act, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida has strengthened their campaign to restore parental rights and protect children from unnecessary involuntary examination.

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Bogus Psychiatric Science and Big Pharma Lead to Drugging Kids

A few years ago, a founding father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), announced a few months before his death that … “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease."

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Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging of Australian Children

Australia is experiencing a tidal wave of psychiatric drugging. In a population of just over 24 million, more than 35 million prescriptions are written for psychiatric drugs every year, with $8 billion spent annually on mental health. Of great concern is the growing numbers of children and teenagers on antidepressants when no antidepressant is approved for use in children under the age of 18 for depression. Considering the huge increases in psychiatric drug consumption over the last twenty years – drugs we are told are nothing short of miraculous – why aren’t we doing better? This compelling documentary details the real story of what lies behind the ever-increasing psychiatric funding and drugging of our children and society. Watch Psychiatry: Friend or Foe? The Untold Story of Australian Psychiatry. It is vital information everyone needs to know.

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Psychiatric drugs: Normalizing our kids

Many families have to face the difficult decisions involved in giving prescription drugs to their kids.

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How we're misunderstanding medicated kids

The stereotypical medicated kid in America is wealthy and spoiled and retains a psychiatrist to guarantee him extra time on tests or to help process the emotional fallout of being neglected by high-powered working parents. In this formulation, rich kids have psychological problems, and poor kids have real problems. But the stereotype isn't accurate; the correlation is, in fact, the opposite. Children in poor families are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with emotional and behavioral problems and to be prescribed medication. Our national understanding of youth and mental health starts with an important mistake.

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CCHR to Protest the Electroshocking of Children in Atlanta at the American Psychiatric Convention

In response to the American Psychiatric Associations calling on the FDA to allow the electroshocking of children who don't respond to "treatment" (drugs), CCHR is holding a protest at the annual American Psychiatric Association convention in downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Anyone interested in joining the protest can sign up on the Facebook event page. The protestors will meet up at 10:30 am at the north end of Woodruff Park to start the march.

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Why are children being prescribed more psychiatric and serious medications than ever before?

New studies suggest more children than ever are being prescribed psychiatric drugs and other serious medications.

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Drugging Our Kids: Foster care bill targets excessive prescribing of psychiatric drugs

The voices of foster youth and their advocates overcame the powerful physicians lobby in the Capitol on Monday, as a bill to identify and investigate California doctors who overprescribe psychiatric drugs to traumatized foster children won a key Senate vote.

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“New Mexico Law Prohibits Forced Psychiatric Drugging of Children”

Bill 53 has officially become law in New Mexico House Bill, ensuring that a parent’s decision not to administer psychiatric drugs to a child is not grounds for a child being removed from parental custody.

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Drugging Children to Keep Them Quiet

Two mothers mentioned getting perscriptions from doctors to medicate children during a plane trip. Presumably to keep them calm and sedated. This honestly bothers me profoundly! I try not to give my child chemical medications at all, just as I try to avoid taking them myself.

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