Released on = July 20, 2006, 10:28 am

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = There are no blood tests, X-rays, brain scans or any
scientific/medical means by which psychiatry's diagnoses can be verified.

Press Release Body = On July 6, 2006, Ms. Carol Petrunia's father committed suicide
by hanging himself with a belt while being "treated" at the Country Squire Mental
Health Facility in Osoyoos, British Columbia. He had previously been "treated\" at
the Penticton Regional Hospital Psychiatric Ward where he had been prescribed and
was using one of the many psychiatric drugs known to precipitate suicidal feelings,
Remeron.

Prior to his being involuntarily committed to the Penticton psychiatric ward and
subsequent to his admission to the Country Squire, Ms. Petrunia's father was having
much difficulty being able to eat and had lost an extreme amount of weight. This was
due to an undiagnosed health related issue. He needed competent medical attention to
correct this problem, not a psychiatric misdiagnosis and dangerous mind altering
drugs.

Ms. Petrunia has filed a complaint with the with the Southern Interior Health Region
saying that her father became severely agitated while taking the drug Remeron but
the prescribing psychiatrist did nothing. She is also claiming that she is convinced
that her father would never have committed suicide if psychiatrists had not been
meddling with his mind and if he had not been taking any of psychiatry's drugs,
particularly the anti-depressant Remeron.

On May 26, 2004 Remeron came under fire when Heath Canada issued a stronger warning
for SSRIs and other newer anti-depressants, including Remeron, regarding the
potential for behavioral and emotional changes, including risk of self-harm. Heath
Canada reported that there are clinical trial and post-marketing reports with SSRIs
and other newer antidepressants, in both pediatrics and adults, of severe
agitation-type adverse events coupled with self-harm or harm to others. The
agitation-type events include: akathisia, agitation, disinhibition, emotional
lability, hostility, aggression, depersonalization. In some cases, the events
occurred within several weeks of starting treatment.

Research, conducted by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric
watchdog group established by the Church of Scientology, showed that in only the
past two years 18 government warnings by five different countries including
Switzerland, England, Canada, the US and Europe have been issued on the previously
undisclosed dangers of psychiatric drugs citing side effects of drug dependence,
addiction, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis, suicide and violence.

Brian Beaumont, President of the Vancouver chapter of CCHR said, "Never have
incidents of psychiatric injustice been more evident than in the mental health field
where laws have empowered psychiatrists to seize people and, without trial, not only
deprive them of their liberty, but drug them against their will and commit abusive
acts upon them. Committed by anyone else in society, these acts would result in
charges of false imprisonment, assault and even rape. People need to know their
rights when faced with abuse such as this and CCHR is here to help them".

Beaumont concluded, "There are no blood tests, X-rays, brain scans or any
scientific/medical means by which psychiatry's diagnoses can be verified.
Subsequently millions of men women and children have been wrongly diagnosed as
mentally ill, and prescribed dangerous and potentially lethal psychiatric drugs".

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established in 1969 by the Church of
Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

For more information and a complete list of recent government inquiries go to
http://www.cchr.org and to view the Health Canada warning go to Important drug
safety information for REMERON RDTM/REMERON






Web Site = http://www.cchr.org

Contact Details = Citizens Commission on Human Rights
401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6B1L5. 604-689-4417: humanrights@lightspeed.ca