Released on = July 29, 2006, 9:45 am

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Pharmaceuticals

Press Release Summary = In only the past 4 years there have been 20 government
warnings regarding the dangers of psychiatry's drugs by five different countries.

Press Release Body = On July 21st, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked
antidepressant drug makers to add two more warnings to the drug labels. According to
the FDA, antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac or Zoloft taken during pregnancy can
cause the newborn to develop a fatal lung disease. The FDA also warned that taking
antidepressants with certain migraine drugs can lead to \"serotonin syndrome,\" which
can lead to hallucinations, vomiting, blood pressure changes, restlessness and
death. These two most recent warnings about antidepressants may sound shocking, but
they are consistent with the disturbing history of psychiatric drug warnings.

In 1991, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog established
by the Church of Scientology filed complaints and provided evidence to both the
Canadian and U.S government drug agencies regarding cases of suicidal ideation and
homicidal acts connected with one of psychiatry's antidepressants they had
documented. Heath Canada did nothing; but in response, on September 20, 1991, the
FDA ordered an advisory committee to hold a hearing to investigate the safety and
effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. A panel of nine psychiatrists, many with
financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, heard chilling testimony from medical
experts as well as the victims of these drugs --- and did nothing.

It wasn't until 13 years later, on October 15, 2004, that the FDA finally ordered
pharmaceutical companies to add a "black box" warning to antidepressants, saying the
drugs could cause suicidal thoughts and actions in children and teenagers. It took
nine months for the FDA to issue another advisory warning doctors to watch for
suicidal behavior in adults taking antidepressants.

Now in only the past 4 years there have been 20 government warnings regarding the
dangers of psychiatry's drugs by five different countries including Switzerland,
England, Canada, the US and Europe. These warnings were 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, spokesperson for the Vancouver Chapter of the Citizens Commission on
Human Rights said, "The UN, the FDA, Health Canada and the European Commission
should be encouraged to seek out and eradicate the source of the problem ;
psychiatrists who have misled governments, medical agencies and the public into
believing their trumped up disorders actually exist. It is baffling how the
psychiatric industry has bamboozled the population into believing that they are the
authorities in the field of mental health when they are not. Their only solutions to
difficulties in life are dangerous drugs and electric shock".

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







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