Re: MEDICAL, DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING $27 BILLION PSYCHIATRIC DRUG INDUST

[Guest guest]

thanks sharon, i'm so glad someone is finally cracking down on this

issue. it makes me madder than heck to know that antidepressants,

like antibiotics have been handed out like candy for years and years

while the illnesses and whats causeing them have been completely

ignored. realizeing that anixity and depression LIKE symptoms can be

from a physological illness and doing testing first should be a must.

it's pretty disturbing that we can send men to space but can't

diagnose a illness and give proper treatment.i have to wonder if it's

all been at the botten of the totem pole because of population

worries, but maybe thier starting to realize that ignoreing illnesses

does not cut down on population it just makes many,many sick people

that are unable to work. if the acoem and aaaai care so much about

keeping people in the work forse and off of disablity maybe it's time

they start dealing with the illnesses on a real level.

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> MEDICAL EXPERTS SUPPORT DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING $27 BILLION

PSYCHIATRIC DRUG

> INDUSTRY

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> Psychiatric/pharmaceutical interests blamed for misleading

advertising about

> antidepressant violence/suicide risks as the FDA meets to hear the

mounting

> evidence

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> Los Angeles: 12 December: Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., a California

neurologist,

> slammed pharmaceutical companies, the American Psychiatric

Association and

> psychiatric “front†groups for denying consumers the right to

informed consent

> regarding the dangers of psychiatric drugs, including the risk of

suicide.

> Speaking at the Los Angeles release of a documentary,

“Psychiatry: An

> Industry of Deathâ€â€ " a damning indictment of how psychotropic

drug dealing is

> legitimized in the name of “scienceâ€â€ " Dr. Baughman said

psychiatrists “label, drug

> and victimize us by the millions, from cradle-to-grave, with

absolutely no

> medical legitimacy.†“Unthinkably,†he added,

“psychiatric diagnosis is a

> total, 100% fraud.â€The release of the documentary was timely as

the Food and

> Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory

Committee prepares to

> hold a hearing tomorrow on the relationship of antidepressants and

suicide in

> adults taking them.

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> The APA and several psychiatric groups that receive over 7.5

million dollars

> from manufacturers of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs,

have

> asked the FDA to be “careful†about the information it

provides to consumers

> about antidepressants. But experts say that denying information

about the

> serious risks of these drugs violates a person’s informed consent

rights and

> requires warnings that antidepressants are not prescribed for a

medical

> disease.Dr. Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud and Texas

psychiatrist, Colin Ross,

> author of Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, addressed those

attending the

> release of “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death†documentary,

stating that the

> theory that a “chemical imbalance†in the brain requires

antidepressants to “

> balance†out depression is completely false. It is “not based

on blood

> test or brain scan, or physical findings. It’s based on

descriptions of

> behavior. And that’s what the whole psychiatry system is,†Dr.

Ross said. Such

> misleading advertising has led to $13 billion a year in sales of

antidepressants

> and $27 billion a year for all psychiatric drugs.Jan Eastgate,

international

> president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which

produced

> the documentary, said, “The FDA should not only ensure a black

box label be

> placed on antidepressants warning about the risk of suicide and

violent

> thoughts and behavior in adults taking them, but also prohibit or

prosecute those

> manufacturers and psychiatric associations that pharmaceutical

companies fund

> which advertise that psychiatric drugs correct serotonin levels or

chemical

> imbalances in the brain. In 2003, the Irish government prohibited

> GlaxoKline from claiming Paxil could restore serotonin levels

to normal.

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> The same ban is needed for any advertising in the U.S., and should

include

> those associations that receive funding from drug companies and

which

> indirectly promote antidepressants and other psychoactive

drugs.â€Before the

> antidepressant Prozac was FDA approved for the U.S. in 1987,

German authorities had

> already determined that the rate of suicide for the drug was more

5.6 times

> higher than for older antidepressants and could be accompanied by

violent

> outbursts. In 1991, an FDA Hearing into Prozac†" elicited by

public pressure that

> CCHR garnered†" ignored the evidence and gave Prozac a clean bill

of health, an

> act that some experts say could have contributed to the more than

360 murders

> and acts of violence committed by individuals taking

antidepressants. In

> 2005, several studies published in the British Medical Journal and

BMC Medicine,

> determined that antidepressants were between 2 and 7 times more

likely to

> induce suicide in adults taking this than those taking placebo.

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> The documentary, which Dr. Baughman describes as “probing,

unflinching and

> riveting†and exposing “chilling facts that all people

concerned about human

> rights will want to know,†documents using psychiatric footage

and interviews

> with more than 160 experts and victims, how, since the 1960s,

plans to

> increase the development of psychotropic drugs has been aimed at

“the control of

> selective aspects of man’s life,†and not therapy.

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> CCHR is an international psychiatric watchdog that has been in the

vanguard

> of patients' rights since it was co-founded in 1969 by the Church

of

> Scientology and Dr. Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus

at the State

> University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, to

investigate and

> expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

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> Dr. Rick Lippin

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[Guest guest]

Sharon, can you share link to this? I would like to share with some

others. Thanks

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> MEDICAL EXPERTS SUPPORT DOCUMENTARY EXPOSING $27 BILLION

PSYCHIATRIC DRUG

> INDUSTRY

>

>

> Psychiatric/pharmaceutical interests blamed for misleading

advertising about

> antidepressant violence/suicide risks as the FDA meets to hear the

mounting

> evidence

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