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   Mental Health Watchdog Vindicated; New Report Confirms Psychiatric   
   Drug Risks Kept Buried by Vested Interests   
      
      
               LOS ANGELES: After decades of warning the public that   
   vested interests were burying psychiatric drug risks, vehemently   
   denied by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industires, the mental health   
   watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) says new research   
   published Jan 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine vindicates   
   their demands for full public disclosure.   
      
      
      
   CCHR has filed Freedom of Information requests to the Food and Drug   
   Administration (FDA) for adverse reactions reports of antidepressants,   
   helped to orchestrate FDA hearings into the suicidal side effects of   
   antidepressants and filed complaints to government officials and   
   agencies about the conflicts of interest of FDA advisory committee   
   members ignoring the drugs' side effects.  In addition, CCHR has   
   issued numerous publications about the cover-up of psychiatric drug   
   side effects and has filed complaints worldwide with licensing boards   
   and other agencies on behalf of people harmed by psychiatric drugs   
   including stimulants, antidepressants and antipsychotics.   
      
      
      
   Now, a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled,   
   "Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on   
   Apparent Efficacy," has revealed that negative studies on   
   antidepressants are either not being published, or are skewed in a way   
   that makes them appear positive.  (See stories running on Fox National   
   News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal)  CCHR says the   
   psychiatric-pharmaceutical cartel is not only misleading the public   
   about the drugs, but also about the disorders for which they are   
   prescribed.   
      
      
      
    Just this month, U.S. News and World Report confirmed that the   
   American Psychiatric Association (APA) failed to fully disclose the   
   substantial pharmaceutical ties of its task force members, charged   
   with updating and expanding psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical   
   Manual of Mental Disorders, comprised of subjective checklists of   
   symptoms which are then used to categorize new “mental disorders” and   
   bill insurance companies.  Even high-ranking psychiatrists such as   
   Steven Sharfstein, former president of the APA, have pointed out the   
   financial corruption in their field.  In 2006, Sharfstein admitted,   
   “We have allowed ourselves to be corrupted in this marketplace with   
   lucrative consulting to industry, speaker panels, boards of directors   
   and visits from industry representatives bearing gifts.”   
      
      
      
   For more information on the financial ties between psychiatrists and   
   drug manufacturers, read CCHR’s publication, Psychiatric Diagnostic   
   Manual Link to Drug Manufacturers.   
      
      
   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 CCHR's Media Department at 800-869-2247 or   
   humanrights@cchr.org.   
      
      
   Citizens Commission on Human Rights International   
   6616 Sunset Blvd.   
   Los Angeles, CA  90028   
   323-467-4242   
      
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