Protesters Say Psychiatrists Label And Drug Children For Profit

Online, October 15, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Vancouver The Citizens Commission on Human Rights held a protest march with hundreds of concerned citizens in downtown Vancouver, Saturday, to bring attention to the fact that there are 20 million children wearing false psychiatric labels that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors and that the subsequent drugging of these same children constitutes child abuse.

There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove the scientific validity of any of the psychiatric labels, yet children are prescribed dangerous and life-threatening psychiatric drugs based on nothing more than the invented label. Child drugging is a $4.8 billion-a-year industry.

The CCHR also called psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders into question saying it is a fraud perpetrated on society for the sole purpose of enormously increasing their income base by labeling and drugging individuals, particularly helpless little children from ages 0 to 3 years old.

During the protest march, which corresponded with the 61st Canadian Psychiatric Association conference, members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights carried a banner which said "hide your children; the psychiatrists are in town" and other supporters carried placards saying, "psychiatry labels and drugs children for profit". They also wore black shirts stating "psychiatry is a fraud".

The psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars a year in order to convince the public, legislators and the press that psychiatric disorders such as Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc., are medical diseases on par with verifiable medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. This is simply a way to maintain their hold on a $84 billion dollar-a-year psychiatric drug industry that is based on marketing and not science.

Brian Beaumont, president of the Vancouver chapter of CCHR Stated, "no adult or child should be victimized by drugs or treatments that are not cures and no government should support harm in the guise of help". He asks that all those with common sense and a passion for human rights to stand behind CCHR to make the truth about psychiatric abuses widely known and bring about the reforms that are so badly needed.

There have been 20 psychiatric drug warnings issued in the last few years alone, which link suicide, hostility, worsening depression, mania, hallucinations and death to psychiatric drugs that reap $80 billion dollars a year-an abuse CCHR has persistently exposed for three decades.

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 at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. Scientologists' stand on psychiatry comes from a deep concern about the brutality that is the hallmark of this practice.

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