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CITIZENS COMMISSIONON HUMAN RIGHTSThe Citizens Commission on Human
Rights (CCHR) was established in 1969 by
the Church of Scientology to investigate
and expose psychiatric violations of humanrights, and to clean up the field of mental
healing. Its co-founder is Dr. Thomas
Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus andan internationally renowned author. Today,
CCHR has more than 130 chapters in over
30 countries. Its board of advisors, called
Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers,
educators, artists, business professionals,
and civil and human rights representatives.
CCHR has inspired and caused many
hundreds of reforms by testifying before
legislative hearings and conducting public
hearings into psychiatric abuse, as well asworking with media, law enforcement andpublic officials the world over.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
CCHR International
6616 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242(800) 869-2247 • Fax: (323) 467-3720
www.cchr.org
e-mail: humanrights@cchr.org

PSYCHIATRYHOOKING YOUR WORLD ON DRUGS®

A Public Service Report from
Citizens Commission on Human Rights

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RECOMMENDATIONS

1Humane hospitals should replace coercive psychiatricinstitutions. These must have medical diagnostic
equipment, which non-psychiatric medical doctors
can use to thoroughly examine and test for all underlying physical problems that may be manifesting as
disturbed behavior.

2
3“Psychiatrists haveensured that more and more
people are being deceived into
thinking that the best answer tolife’s many routine problems andchallenges lies with the ‘latest andgreatest’ psychiatric drug.”— Jan Eastgate

2

The pernicious influence of psychiatry has wreaked
havoc throughout society. Citizen groups andresponsible government officials should work
together to expose and abolish psychiatry’s hidden
manipulation of society.
If you or a relative or friend have been falsely
imprisoned in a psychiatric facility, assaulted,
abused or damaged by a mental health practitioner,
seek attorney advice about filing a civil suit against
any offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital,
associations and teaching institutions.

Caution: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice
and assistance of a competent non-psychiatric medical doctor.
This publication was made possible by a grant from the United States
International Association of Scientologists Members’ Trust.

1 Beverly K. Eakman, “Anything That Ails You,
Women on Tranqs in a Self-Serve Society,”
Chronicles, Aug. 2004.
2 Victor Cordoba, “Psiquiatria Guerra a la melancholia Aumenta el uso de antidepresivos en Espana,”– El Mundo, 20 Feb. 1997, website address:
http://www.el-mundo.es/salud/1997/235/01762.html;“Prohibido estar Triste,” 17 Nov. 2003, address:
http://www.quo.wanadoo.es/quo/carticulos/10017.html.
3 Anil Dawar, “Prozac ‘found in tapwater,’”
Daily Mail, 9 Aug. 2004.
4 Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash,(Simon & Schuster, NY, 2000), p. 192.
5 Ibid. p. 193.

6 Ty. C. Colbert, Ph.D., Rape of the Soul: How
the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatry
has Failed its Patients (Kevco Publishing,
California, 2001), p. 97.
7 Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy,(The Free Press, NY, 1997), p. 265.
8 Ibid.
9 Brian Vastig, “Pay Attention: Ritalin Acts
Much Like Cocaine,” Journal of the American
Medical Association, August 22/29, 2001,
Vol. 286, No. 8, p. 905.
10 DSM-III-R, (American Psychiatric Association,
Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 136.
11 Op. cit., Colbert, p. 78.
12 Ibid. p. 117.

© 2004 CCHR. All Rights Reserved. CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CCHR and the
CCHR logo are trademarks and service marks owned by Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Printed
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condition can alter the patient’s temperament.
In my practice, I have run across countless people with chronic back pain who were labeledneurotic. A typical statement from these poor
patients is ‘I thought I really was going crazy.’”
The problem may be “simply an undiagnosed
ligament problem in their back.”
There are many childhood problems that
can appear to be symptoms of so-called“ADHD,” but which are, in fact, either allergic
reactions or the result of a lack of vitamins or
nutrition in the body. More often than not, children simply need educational solutions.
Tutoring, and learning how to effectively study,
can save the child from a life of unnecessary andharmful psychiatric drugs.
Mental healing treatments should begauged by how they improve and strengthen
individuals, responsibility, spiritual well-being
andtherebysociety.
While life is full
Treatment that healsof problems, and should be delivered in asometimes those calm atmosphere characproblems can be terized by tolerance, safety,
overwhelming, it is security and respect forimportant for you to people’s rights.
And a workable andknow that psychiatry,humane mental healthits diagnoses and its system is what the Citizens
drugs are the wrong Commission on Humanway to go. Rights is working for.

14

INTRODUCTIONA DRUGGED AND
DANGEROUS WORLDW

hat is one of the most destructive things inyour world today?
If you answered drugs, then you sharethat view with the majority of people in your community. Illegal drugs, and their resultant violence andcrime, are recognized as a major threat to children andsociety.
However, very few people recognize that illegal
drugs represent only part of today’s drug problem.
During the last 40 to 50 years there have been major
worldwide changes in our reliance on another type ofdrug, namely prescription psychiatric drugs.
Once reserved for the mentally disturbed, today it
would be difficult to find someone—a family member, afriend or a neighbor—who hasn’t taken some form of
psychiatric drug. In fact, these have become such a partof life for many people that “life without drugs” issimply unimaginable.
Prescribed for everything from learning and behavioral problems, to bedwetting, aggression, juvenile
delinquency, criminality, drug addiction, and smoking,to handling the fears and problems of our elderly, fromthe cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with information pushing us towards this type of chemical “fix.”
Little surprise then that worldwide statistics show
a rapidly increasing percentage of every age group,from children to the elderly, rely heavily and routinely
on these drugs in their daily lives. Worldwide sales ofantidepressants were more than $19.5 billion (€15.6 billion) in 2002 alone. Antipsychotic drug sales havereached more than $12 billion (€9.8 billion).
Meanwhile authors Richard Hughes and Robert
Brewin, in their book The Tranquilizing of America,
warned that although psychotropic, mind-alteringdrugs may appear “to ‘take the edge off’ anxiety, pain,
and stress, they also take the edge off life itself … thesepills not only numb the pain but numb the wholemind.” In fact, close study reveals that none of them can
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cure, all have horrific side effects, and due to theiraddictive and damaging properties, all are capable ofruining a person’s life.
Consider also the fact that terrorists have usedpsychotropic drugs to brainwash young men into
becoming suicide bombers. Additionally, at least
250,000 children worldwide, some as young as seven,are being used for terrorist and revolutionary activities and given amphetamines and tranquilizers to go
on “murderous binges” for days. Yet these are thesame drugs that psychiatrists are prescribing children
for “learning” or “behavioral” problems.
How did millions become hooked on such destructive drugs? We need to look at life before the drug.
Before becoming hooked, each individual wasconvinced that these drugs would help him or her tohandle life. The primary sales tool that was used wasan invented diagnostic system, the American
Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM) and the mental
disorders section of Europe’s International Classificationof Diseases (ICD). Once diagnosed and the prescription filled, the destructive properties of the drugs
themselves took over.
Forcing widespread implementation of thisdiagnostic sham, psychiatrists have ensured that
more and more people with no serious mental problem, even no problem at all, are being deceived into
thinking that the best answer to life’s many routinedifficulties and challenges lies with the “latest andgreatest” psychiatric drug.
Whether you are a legislator, a parent of schoolaged children, a teacher, an employer or employee,
or simply a community member, this publication isvital reading.
Our failure in the war against drugs is due
largely to our failure to put a stop to the mostdamaging of all drug pushers in society.
This is the psychiatrist at work today, busy
deceiving us and hooking our world on drugs.
Jan Eastgate
President, Citizens Commission
on Human Rights International
4

CHAPTER FOUR
A BETTER WAY

W

hile life is full of problems, and sometimes those problems can be overwhelming, it is important to knowthat psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs are
the wrong direction to go. The drugs can only
chemically mask problems and symptoms; theycannot and never will be able to solve problems.
Once the drug has worn off, the original problem remains. As a solution or cure to life’s problems, they do not work.
Meanwhile, numerous safe and workable
alternatives do exist, solutions that psychiatrists
refuse to recognize.
Dr. Thomas Dorman, a member of theRoyal College of Physicians of the United
Kingdom and Canada says, “…emotional stressassociated with a chronic illness or a painful13

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Europe were in Switzerland, Iceland, theNetherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany,
Belgium, and Luxemburg. In Britain the stimulant prescription rate for children increased
9,200% between 1992 and 2000. Spain reports a
steady 8% annual increase in Ritalin consumption
between 1992 and 2001.
In 2003, the British medicine regulatory
agency warned doctors not to prescribe SSRI antidepressants (such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor)
for under-18 year olds because of the risk of suicide. The following year,“A child who sees a
the U.S. Food and Drug
DSM-oriented doctor Administration (FDA)
is almost assured of a issued a similar warning,
psychiatric label and a as did Australian, Canprescription, even if the adian and European
child is perfectly fine. ... agencies. Over a 10-year
period, one of theseThis willy-nilly labeling ofantidepressants was assovirtually everyone as men- ciated with more hospitally ill is a serious danger to talizations, deaths, or
healthy children because other serious adverse
virtually all children have reactions reported to theenough symptoms to get a FDA than any other drug
12
DSM label and a drug.” in history.
The FDA also or— Dr. Sydney Walker III, dered that a “black box”
psychiatrist, neurologist, label be placed on SSRI
author of A Dose of Sanity bottles warning of suicide risk.
However, children
are dying, are killing others or being turned into
addicts because of these,
and other psychiatricdrugs. Their future will
only be safeguarded
when the unscientific“mental disorders” they
are diagnosed with are
abolished and dangerous
psychotropic drugs areprohibited.
12

CHAPTER ONE
PUSHING DRUGSAS ‘MEDICINES’F

ifty years ago, people understood a drug to
be one of two things: a substance legally prescribed by a medical doctor to help treat
physical disease—in other words, a medication; or,an illegal substance which characteristically caused
addiction, and could lead to a marked change inconsciousness—such as the “street” drugs heroin
and opium.
Most people know that illegal drugs are one ofsociety’s worst enemies, bringing crime and its
associated ills to our streets, communities andschools.
In the last few decades, however, a new breedof drug has moved into mainstream society. These
drugs have become so much a part of life that many
find it difficult to consider living even a day without them.
Psychiatric drugs have become a panacea forthe pressures and stresses of modern living, used
extensively in schools, nursing homes, drug
519137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 12

Billions of Dollars

rehabilitation centers and prisons. They are relied on to“help” with everything from weight control, andmathematical and writing problems, to flagging selfconfidence, anxiety, sleeping disorders and minor dayto-day upsets.
While medical drugs commonly treat, prevent orcure disease or improve health, psychiatric drugs at
best suppress symptoms—symptoms that return oncethe drug wears off. Like illicit drugs, they provide no
more than a temporary escape from life’s problems.
But psychiatric drugs are also habit-forming andaddictive. Withdrawal from them can be far more difficult than from illegal drugs. The clearest evidence ofthe similarities between psychiatric and illegal drugs isthe fact that addiction to psychiatric drugs now rivals
illegal drug addiction as the No. 1 drug problem inmany parts of the world.
Yet, such dangerous and problem-ridden drugs
have become widely accepted in society.
At least 17 million people worldwide are prescribed minor tranquilizers, with “Western European
countries facing epidemic levels of citizens being
hooked on tranquilizers as well as antidepressants,”
author Beverly Eakman reports.1 In Spain, the use ofantidepressants rose 247% in the 1990s, with the salesof antidepressants increasing three-fold and antianxiety drugs by four-fold since 2000.2 In 2004 in
Britain, scientists discovered that one SSRI is consumed in such large quantities that traces of it are now
in the country’s drinking water. According to an environmental spokesperson, Norman Baker, MP, “Thislooks like a case of hidden mass medication of theunsuspecting public and is potentially a very worrying
health issue.”3
Coincidentally,$12$10,900,000,000
the world today is$10
suffering from massive social problems$8
that are international$6
in scope, including$4
increased drug abuseand violence.
$2$1,130,000,000

INCREASING DRUG SALES:
Used only to “treat” never cure— mind-altering psychiatricdrug sales continue to climb.

$0

1990
2003
Antidepressant Sales
in the United States,1990 vs. 2003

Administration (DEA) said the main stimulant used
to treat “ADHD” could lead to addiction and that“psychotic episodes, violent behavior and bizarre
mannerisms had been reported” with its use.8❚ A 2001 Journal of the American Medical
Association study found the stimulant to be morepotent than cocaine. 9❚ Suicide is a major complication of withdrawal from this stimulant and similar amphetamine-like drugs.10❚ Clinical psychologist Ty C. Colbert says thatwhen behaviors are “viewed as pathology, however,doctors will prescribe drugs under the guise of balancing a chemical imbalance. Yet, because there is no
imbalance, all the drugs do is chemically restrict thebrain’s capabilities.”11
AccordingtoDr. “ADHD is a phenomena,
Sydney Walker, author of not a ‘brain disease.’...
The Hyperactivity Hoax, “aChildren are being
child who sees a DSM-oriented doctor is almost forced to take a drug thatassured of a psychiatric label is stronger than cocaine
and a prescription, even if for a disease that is yet
the child is perfectly fine. …
to be proven.”
This willy-nilly labeling ofvirtually everyone as men- — Beverly Eakman,tally ill is a serious danger toauthor, president, National
healthy children, because
Education Consortium
virtually all children haveenough symptoms to get a DSM label and a drug.”“Hyperactivity is not a disease,” he said. “It’s ahoax perpetrated by doctors who have no idea
what’s really wrong with these children.”

TODAY’S DRUGGED CULTURE

In the United States today, more than eight
million children have been put on mind-altering
psychiatric drugs. In Australia, the stimulant prescription rate for children increased 34-fold in thepast two decades. In Mexico, sales of one stimulant increased 800% between 1993 and 2001.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly reported that, in 2000, the highest rates
of methylphenidate (Ritalin) consumption in
11

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CHAPTER THREE
THE HOAX OFLEARNING ‘DISORDERS’I

n today’s world, there are very few families orteachers whose lives have not been interrupted
in some way by the widespread drugging ofchildren with prescribed, mind-altering drugs.
For the millions of children around the world
now on these drugs, trusted advisors were readyto answer the parents’ concerns about theirchild’s disorder necessitating the “medication.”
Commonly, a psychiatrist or psychologist told theseparents that their child suffers from a disorder affecting his or her ability to learn—commonly known asa Learning Disorder (LD). The disorder is alsolabeled Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or mostcommonly today, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD).
There are numerous risks associated with the prescription of mind-altering drugs for so-called behavioral or learning disorders. A short list of these follows:❚ In 1995, the U.S. Drug Enforcement
10

CHAPTER TWOFRAUDULENTDIAGNOSESI

t may be stating the obvious, but for a doctor tolegally prescribe a drug, there has to be some sortof agreed-upon diagnosis, some standard bywhich to act, that would include agreed-upon, legitimate physical symptoms. This isn’t the case withpsychiatry.
Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullen
explains: “In medicine, strict criteria exist for
calling a condition a disease. In addition to a
predictable cluster of symptoms, the cause of thesymptoms or some understanding of their physiology [function] must be established. This knowledge
elevates the diagnosis to the status of recognized disease. For example, ‘fever’ is not a disease, it is merely a symptom. In the absence of known cause or
physiology (function), a cluster of symptoms thatone sees repeatedly in many different patients iscalled a syndrome, not a disease.”4 In psychiatry,7

19137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 16“we do not yet have proof either of the cause of thephysiology for any psychiatric diagnosis. … Thediagnoses are called disorders because none of them
have established diseases.”5
Reputable physicians agree that for a disease to
be accurately diagnosed and treated, there must be atangible, objective, physicalabnormality that can be deterThe DSM is “an mined through tests such as,
arrogant fraud. ... but not limited to, blood or
To make some kind urine, X-ray, brain scan orof pretense that biopsy. It is the consensus ofmany medical professionals
this is a scientific that, contrary to psychiatricstatement is... assertion, no scientific evidamaging to dence exists that would provethe culture.” that “mental disorders” are“brain-based diseases” or that
— Ron Leifer, a chemical imbalance in the
New York Psychiatrist brain is responsible.
Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D. says,“We know that the chemical
imbalance model for mental illness has never beenscientifically proven.”6
The development of the sixth edition of theWorld Health Organization’s International
Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 1948, which incorporated psychiatric disorders (as diseases) for the
first time, and the publication of the American
Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in the
United States in 1952, provided an apparent diagnostic system.
However, a disorder becomes qualified by aconsensus process which involves a mere show of“expert” hands—the key question being, “Do you
think this is a disorder or not, yes or no?”Obviously people can and do experience serious
mental difficulties and need help. However professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors of
Making Us Crazy, warn: “The public at large may
gain false comfort from a diagnostic psychiatricmanual that encourages belief in the illusion that theharshness, brutality, and pain in their lives and in8

their communities can be explained by a psychiatriclabel and eradicated by a pill. Certainly, there areplenty of problems that we all have and a myriad of
peculiar ways that we struggle...to cope with them.
But could life be any different? Far too often, thepsychiatric bible has been making us crazy—when
we are just human.”7
With the DSM, psychiatry has at its disposal
an expanding list of supposed mental disorders,and for each of them a psychiatric drug can belegally prescribed.

THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE LIE
BOGUS BRAIN THEORY:
Presented in countless illustrations in popular magazines,
the brain has been dissected
and labeled and analyzed,
while assailing the publicwith the latest theory of whatis wrong with the brain. Whatis lacking, as with all psychiatric theory, is scientific fact.
As Dr. Elliot Valenstein (right)
explained, “There are no tests
available for assessing thechemical status of a living person’s brain.”

19137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 16“we do not yet have proof either of the cause of thephysiology for any psychiatric diagnosis. … Thediagnoses are called disorders because none of them
have established diseases.”5
Reputable physicians agree that for a disease to
be accurately diagnosed and treated, there must be atangible, objective, physicalabnormality that can be deterThe DSM is “an mined through tests such as,
arrogant fraud. ... but not limited to, blood or
To make some kind urine, X-ray, brain scan orof pretense that biopsy. It is the consensus ofmany medical professionals
this is a scientific that, contrary to psychiatricstatement is... assertion, no scientific evidamaging to dence exists that would provethe culture.” that “mental disorders” are“brain-based diseases” or that
— Ron Leifer, a chemical imbalance in the
New York Psychiatrist brain is responsible.
Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D. says,“We know that the chemical
imbalance model for mental illness has never beenscientifically proven.”6
The development of the sixth edition of theWorld Health Organization’s International
Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 1948, which incorporated psychiatric disorders (as diseases) for the
first time, and the publication of the American
Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in the
United States in 1952, provided an apparent diagnostic system.
However, a disorder becomes qualified by aconsensus process which involves a mere show of“expert” hands—the key question being, “Do you
think this is a disorder or not, yes or no?”Obviously people can and do experience serious
mental difficulties and need help. However professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors of
Making Us Crazy, warn: “The public at large may
gain false comfort from a diagnostic psychiatricmanual that encourages belief in the illusion that theharshness, brutality, and pain in their lives and in8

their communities can be explained by a psychiatriclabel and eradicated by a pill. Certainly, there areplenty of problems that we all have and a myriad of
peculiar ways that we struggle...to cope with them.
But could life be any different? Far too often, thepsychiatric bible has been making us crazy—when
we are just human.”7
With the DSM, psychiatry has at its disposal
an expanding list of supposed mental disorders,and for each of them a psychiatric drug can belegally prescribed.

THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE LIE
BOGUS BRAIN THEORY:
Presented in countless illustrations in popular magazines,
the brain has been dissected
and labeled and analyzed,
while assailing the publicwith the latest theory of whatis wrong with the brain. Whatis lacking, as with all psychiatric theory, is scientific fact.
As Dr. Elliot Valenstein (right)
explained, “There are no tests
available for assessing thechemical status of a living person’s brain.”

19137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 14

CHAPTER THREE
THE HOAX OFLEARNING ‘DISORDERS’I

n today’s world, there are very few families orteachers whose lives have not been interrupted
in some way by the widespread drugging ofchildren with prescribed, mind-altering drugs.
For the millions of children around the world
now on these drugs, trusted advisors were readyto answer the parents’ concerns about theirchild’s disorder necessitating the “medication.”
Commonly, a psychiatrist or psychologist told theseparents that their child suffers from a disorder affecting his or her ability to learn—commonly known asa Learning Disorder (LD). The disorder is alsolabeled Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or mostcommonly today, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD).
There are numerous risks associated with the prescription of mind-altering drugs for so-called behavioral or learning disorders. A short list of these follows:❚ In 1995, the U.S. Drug Enforcement
10

CHAPTER TWOFRAUDULENTDIAGNOSESI

t may be stating the obvious, but for a doctor tolegally prescribe a drug, there has to be some sortof agreed-upon diagnosis, some standard bywhich to act, that would include agreed-upon, legitimate physical symptoms. This isn’t the case withpsychiatry.
Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullen
explains: “In medicine, strict criteria exist for
calling a condition a disease. In addition to a
predictable cluster of symptoms, the cause of thesymptoms or some understanding of their physiology [function] must be established. This knowledge
elevates the diagnosis to the status of recognized disease. For example, ‘fever’ is not a disease, it is merely a symptom. In the absence of known cause or
physiology (function), a cluster of symptoms thatone sees repeatedly in many different patients iscalled a syndrome, not a disease.”4 In psychiatry,7

19137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 12

Billions of Dollars

rehabilitation centers and prisons. They are relied on to“help” with everything from weight control, andmathematical and writing problems, to flagging selfconfidence, anxiety, sleeping disorders and minor dayto-day upsets.
While medical drugs commonly treat, prevent orcure disease or improve health, psychiatric drugs at
best suppress symptoms—symptoms that return oncethe drug wears off. Like illicit drugs, they provide no
more than a temporary escape from life’s problems.
But psychiatric drugs are also habit-forming andaddictive. Withdrawal from them can be far more difficult than from illegal drugs. The clearest evidence ofthe similarities between psychiatric and illegal drugs isthe fact that addiction to psychiatric drugs now rivals
illegal drug addiction as the No. 1 drug problem inmany parts of the world.
Yet, such dangerous and problem-ridden drugs
have become widely accepted in society.
At least 17 million people worldwide are prescribed minor tranquilizers, with “Western European
countries facing epidemic levels of citizens being
hooked on tranquilizers as well as antidepressants,”
author Beverly Eakman reports.1 In Spain, the use ofantidepressants rose 247% in the 1990s, with the salesof antidepressants increasing three-fold and antianxiety drugs by four-fold since 2000.2 In 2004 in
Britain, scientists discovered that one SSRI is consumed in such large quantities that traces of it are now
in the country’s drinking water. According to an environmental spokesperson, Norman Baker, MP, “Thislooks like a case of hidden mass medication of theunsuspecting public and is potentially a very worrying
health issue.”3
Coincidentally,$12$10,900,000,000
the world today is$10
suffering from massive social problems$8
that are international$6
in scope, including$4
increased drug abuseand violence.
$2$1,130,000,000

INCREASING DRUG SALES:
Used only to “treat” never cure— mind-altering psychiatricdrug sales continue to climb.

$0

1990
2003
Antidepressant Sales
in the United States,1990 vs. 2003

Administration (DEA) said the main stimulant used
to treat “ADHD” could lead to addiction and that“psychotic episodes, violent behavior and bizarre
mannerisms had been reported” with its use.8❚ A 2001 Journal of the American Medical
Association study found the stimulant to be morepotent than cocaine. 9❚ Suicide is a major complication of withdrawal from this stimulant and similar amphetamine-like drugs.10❚ Clinical psychologist Ty C. Colbert says thatwhen behaviors are “viewed as pathology, however,doctors will prescribe drugs under the guise of balancing a chemical imbalance. Yet, because there is no
imbalance, all the drugs do is chemically restrict thebrain’s capabilities.”11
AccordingtoDr. “ADHD is a phenomena,
Sydney Walker, author of not a ‘brain disease.’...
The Hyperactivity Hoax, “aChildren are being
child who sees a DSM-oriented doctor is almost forced to take a drug thatassured of a psychiatric label is stronger than cocaine
and a prescription, even if for a disease that is yet
the child is perfectly fine. …
to be proven.”
This willy-nilly labeling ofvirtually everyone as men- — Beverly Eakman,tally ill is a serious danger toauthor, president, National
healthy children, because
Education Consortium
virtually all children haveenough symptoms to get a DSM label and a drug.”“Hyperactivity is not a disease,” he said. “It’s ahoax perpetrated by doctors who have no idea
what’s really wrong with these children.”

TODAY’S DRUGGED CULTURE

In the United States today, more than eight
million children have been put on mind-altering
psychiatric drugs. In Australia, the stimulant prescription rate for children increased 34-fold in thepast two decades. In Mexico, sales of one stimulant increased 800% between 1993 and 2001.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly reported that, in 2000, the highest rates
of methylphenidate (Ritalin) consumption in
11

19137 CCHR Pamphlet - Drugs 10/28/04 5:00 PM Page 10

Europe were in Switzerland, Iceland, theNetherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany,
Belgium, and Luxemburg. In Britain the stimulant prescription rate for children increased
9,200% between 1992 and 2000. Spain reports a
steady 8% annual increase in Ritalin consumption
between 1992 and 2001.
In 2003, the British medicine regulatory
agency warned doctors not to prescribe SSRI antidepressants (such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor)
for under-18 year olds because of the risk of suicide. The following year,“A child who sees a
the U.S. Food and Drug
DSM-oriented doctor Administration (FDA)
is almost assured of a issued a similar warning,
psychiatric label and a as did Australian, Canprescription, even if the adian and European
child is perfectly fine. ... agencies. Over a 10-year
period, one of theseThis willy-nilly labeling ofantidepressants was assovirtually everyone as men- ciated with more hospitally ill is a serious danger to talizations, deaths, or
healthy children because other serious adverse
virtually all children have reactions reported to theenough symptoms to get a FDA than any other drug
12
DSM label and a drug.” in history.
The FDA also or— Dr. Sydney Walker III, dered that a “black box”
psychiatrist, neurologist, label be placed on SSRI
author of A Dose of Sanity bottles warning of suicide risk.
However, children
are dying, are killing others or being turned into
addicts because of these,
and other psychiatricdrugs. Their future will
only be safeguarded
when the unscientific“mental disorders” they
are diagnosed with are
abolished and dangerous
psychotropic drugs areprohibited.
12

CHAPTER ONE
PUSHING DRUGSAS ‘MEDICINES’F

ifty years ago, people understood a drug to
be one of two things: a substance legally prescribed by a medical doctor to help treat
physical disease—in other words, a medication; or,an illegal substance which characteristically caused
addiction, and could lead to a marked change inconsciousness—such as the “street” drugs heroin
and opium.
Most people know that illegal drugs are one ofsociety’s worst enemies, bringing crime and its
associated ills to our streets, communities andschools.
In the last few decades, however, a new breedof drug has moved into mainstream society. These
drugs have become so much a part of life that many
find it difficult to consider living even a day without them.
Psychiatric drugs have become a panacea forthe pressures and stresses of modern living, used
extensively in schools, nursing homes, drug
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cure, all have horrific side effects, and due to theiraddictive and damaging properties, all are capable ofruining a person’s life.
Consider also the fact that terrorists have usedpsychotropic drugs to brainwash young men into
becoming suicide bombers. Additionally, at least
250,000 children worldwide, some as young as seven,are being used for terrorist and revolutionary activities and given amphetamines and tranquilizers to go
on “murderous binges” for days. Yet these are thesame drugs that psychiatrists are prescribing children
for “learning” or “behavioral” problems.
How did millions become hooked on such destructive drugs? We need to look at life before the drug.
Before becoming hooked, each individual wasconvinced that these drugs would help him or her tohandle life. The primary sales tool that was used wasan invented diagnostic system, the American
Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM) and the mental
disorders section of Europe’s International Classificationof Diseases (ICD). Once diagnosed and the prescription filled, the destructive properties of the drugs
themselves took over.
Forcing widespread implementation of thisdiagnostic sham, psychiatrists have ensured that
more and more people with no serious mental problem, even no problem at all, are being deceived into
thinking that the best answer to life’s many routinedifficulties and challenges lies with the “latest andgreatest” psychiatric drug.
Whether you are a legislator, a parent of schoolaged children, a teacher, an employer or employee,
or simply a community member, this publication isvital reading.
Our failure in the war against drugs is due
largely to our failure to put a stop to the mostdamaging of all drug pushers in society.
This is the psychiatrist at work today, busy
deceiving us and hooking our world on drugs.
Jan Eastgate
President, Citizens Commission
on Human Rights International
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CHAPTER FOUR
A BETTER WAY

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hile life is full of problems, and sometimes those problems can be overwhelming, it is important to knowthat psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs are
the wrong direction to go. The drugs can only
chemically mask problems and symptoms; theycannot and never will be able to solve problems.
Once the drug has worn off, the original problem remains. As a solution or cure to life’s problems, they do not work.
Meanwhile, numerous safe and workable
alternatives do exist, solutions that psychiatrists
refuse to recognize.
Dr. Thomas Dorman, a member of theRoyal College of Physicians of the United
Kingdom and Canada says, “…emotional stressassociated with a chronic illness or a painful13

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condition can alter the patient’s temperament.
In my practice, I have run across countless people with chronic back pain who were labeledneurotic. A typical statement from these poor
patients is ‘I thought I really was going crazy.’”
The problem may be “simply an undiagnosed
ligament problem in their back.”
There are many childhood problems that
can appear to be symptoms of so-called“ADHD,” but which are, in fact, either allergic
reactions or the result of a lack of vitamins or
nutrition in the body. More often than not, children simply need educational solutions.
Tutoring, and learning how to effectively study,
can save the child from a life of unnecessary andharmful psychiatric drugs.
Mental healing treatments should begauged by how they improve and strengthen
individuals, responsibility, spiritual well-being
andtherebysociety.
While life is full
Treatment that healsof problems, and should be delivered in asometimes those calm atmosphere characproblems can be terized by tolerance, safety,
overwhelming, it is security and respect forimportant for you to people’s rights.
And a workable andknow that psychiatry,humane mental healthits diagnoses and its system is what the Citizens
drugs are the wrong Commission on Humanway to go. Rights is working for.

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INTRODUCTIONA DRUGGED AND
DANGEROUS WORLDW

hat is one of the most destructive things inyour world today?
If you answered drugs, then you sharethat view with the majority of people in your community. Illegal drugs, and their resultant violence andcrime, are recognized as a major threat to children andsociety.
However, very few people recognize that illegal
drugs represent only part of today’s drug problem.
During the last 40 to 50 years there have been major
worldwide changes in our reliance on another type ofdrug, namely prescription psychiatric drugs.
Once reserved for the mentally disturbed, today it
would be difficult to find someone—a family member, afriend or a neighbor—who hasn’t taken some form of
psychiatric drug. In fact, these have become such a partof life for many people that “life without drugs” issimply unimaginable.
Prescribed for everything from learning and behavioral problems, to bedwetting, aggression, juvenile
delinquency, criminality, drug addiction, and smoking,to handling the fears and problems of our elderly, fromthe cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with information pushing us towards this type of chemical “fix.”
Little surprise then that worldwide statistics show
a rapidly increasing percentage of every age group,from children to the elderly, rely heavily and routinely
on these drugs in their daily lives. Worldwide sales ofantidepressants were more than $19.5 billion (€15.6 billion) in 2002 alone. Antipsychotic drug sales havereached more than $12 billion (€9.8 billion).
Meanwhile authors Richard Hughes and Robert
Brewin, in their book The Tranquilizing of America,
warned that although psychotropic, mind-alteringdrugs may appear “to ‘take the edge off’ anxiety, pain,
and stress, they also take the edge off life itself … thesepills not only numb the pain but numb the wholemind.” In fact, close study reveals that none of them can
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RECOMMENDATIONS

1Humane hospitals should replace coercive psychiatricinstitutions. These must have medical diagnostic
equipment, which non-psychiatric medical doctors
can use to thoroughly examine and test for all underlying physical problems that may be manifesting as
disturbed behavior.

2
3“Psychiatrists haveensured that more and more
people are being deceived into
thinking that the best answer tolife’s many routine problems andchallenges lies with the ‘latest andgreatest’ psychiatric drug.”— Jan Eastgate

2

The pernicious influence of psychiatry has wreaked
havoc throughout society. Citizen groups andresponsible government officials should work
together to expose and abolish psychiatry’s hidden
manipulation of society.
If you or a relative or friend have been falsely
imprisoned in a psychiatric facility, assaulted,
abused or damaged by a mental health practitioner,
seek attorney advice about filing a civil suit against
any offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital,
associations and teaching institutions.

Caution: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice
and assistance of a competent non-psychiatric medical doctor.
This publication was made possible by a grant from the United States
International Association of Scientologists Members’ Trust.

1 Beverly K. Eakman, “Anything That Ails You,
Women on Tranqs in a Self-Serve Society,”
Chronicles, Aug. 2004.
2 Victor Cordoba, “Psiquiatria Guerra a la melancholia Aumenta el uso de antidepresivos en Espana,”– El Mundo, 20 Feb. 1997, website address:
http://www.el-mundo.es/salud/1997/235/01762.html;“Prohibido estar Triste,” 17 Nov. 2003, address:
http://www.quo.wanadoo.es/quo/carticulos/10017.html.
3 Anil Dawar, “Prozac ‘found in tapwater,’”
Daily Mail, 9 Aug. 2004.
4 Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash,(Simon & Schuster, NY, 2000), p. 192.
5 Ibid. p. 193.

6 Ty. C. Colbert, Ph.D., Rape of the Soul: How
the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatry
has Failed its Patients (Kevco Publishing,
California, 2001), p. 97.
7 Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy,(The Free Press, NY, 1997), p. 265.
8 Ibid.
9 Brian Vastig, “Pay Attention: Ritalin Acts
Much Like Cocaine,” Journal of the American
Medical Association, August 22/29, 2001,
Vol. 286, No. 8, p. 905.
10 DSM-III-R, (American Psychiatric Association,
Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 136.
11 Op. cit., Colbert, p. 78.
12 Ibid. p. 117.

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CITIZENS COMMISSIONON HUMAN RIGHTSThe Citizens Commission on Human
Rights (CCHR) was established in 1969 by
the Church of Scientology to investigate
and expose psychiatric violations of humanrights, and to clean up the field of mental
healing. Its co-founder is Dr. Thomas
Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus andan internationally renowned author. Today,
CCHR has more than 130 chapters in over
30 countries. Its board of advisors, called
Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers,
educators, artists, business professionals,
and civil and human rights representatives.
CCHR has inspired and caused many
hundreds of reforms by testifying before
legislative hearings and conducting public
hearings into psychiatric abuse, as well asworking with media, law enforcement andpublic officials the world over.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
CCHR International
6616 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242(800) 869-2247 • Fax: (323) 467-3720
www.cchr.org
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