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American Psychiatric Association (APA) Greeted by Hundreds of Protestors Demonstrators in San Diego claim "Psych Drugs Turn Kids into Killers" On Saturday, May 19, psychiatrists attending the 160th annual American Psychiatric Association (APA) convention received an unusual greeting when they arrived at the Convention Center in San Diego - a mobile billboard decrying the mass psychiatric drugging of millions of children, and hundreds of protestors. Wearing T-shirts stating, "Stop Psychiatric Drugging of Children" and "Psych Drugs Turn Kids into Killers," the protestors rallied against the epidemic of child drugging in America and the APA members' long and negligent history of failing to inform people that psychiatric drugs - especially antidepressants - cause violent, even homicidal urges. The 22-foot mobile billboard traveled through the streets of San Diego warning "PSYCHIATRISTS ARE IN SAN DIEGO, HIDE YOUR CHILDREN" and informing the public of the following facts: * 10 million children are prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs for mental "disorders" that cannot be medically/scientifically proven to exist. * The U.S. FDA warns that psychiatric drugs prescribed to children can cause mania, psychosis, suicide, homicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. * 8 recent school shooters have been under the influence of psychiatric drugs resulting in 29 dead and 62 wounded. This includes 18-year-old Jason Hoffman from El Cajon, CA, just east of San Diego, who wounded five after he opened fire at his Granite Hills High School in March 2001, while taking antidepressants. The recent Virginia Tech school shooter, Cho Seung Hui, also reportedly had a prescription for "depression medication," and protestors are calling for the release of Cho's toxicology reports to determine if he is the 9th school shooter to have been under the influence of drugs documented to cause violent and suicidal behavior. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights™ (CCHR), the group organizing the protest, says that psychiatrists are responsible for the epidemic of child drugging and actually "invent" the criteria for so-called mental disorders that have resulted in millions of children needlessly prescribed dangerous and deadly drugs. Psychiatrists attending APA conventions literally vote psychiatric disorders into existence by a show of hands. There are no blood tests, brain scans or chemical imbalance tests that can prove any child has a mental disorder - and psychiatrists mislead the public about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses in order to maintain a multi-billion dollar child drugging industry. CCHR says the psychiatric pharmaceutical alliance is evident to anyone walking into the convention - wall-to-wall pharmaceutical displays and sponsorship. Between 1987 and 2002, there was a 500% increase in those 18 years of age and younger taking antidepressants. Between 1990 and 2005, there was a more than 380% increase in the pediatric use of stimulants, which the FDA warned in 2006 could cause psychosis, mania and aggression. CCHR wants a black box warning extended to include the potential for psychotropic drugs to cause violent behavior. In 2004, the FDA warned that Prozac or Paxil-like antidepressants cause agitation, hostility, impulsivity and mania, but the information is so buried parents and consumers need the FDA's strongest black box warning to speedily alert them. Information Courtesy of CCHR International™ The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric watchdog group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. CONTACT: 1-800-869-2247> |
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