Rehab Fraud

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CONTENTSIntroduction: What

Hope Is There? ............................... 2Chapter One:The Selling of Incurable ................ 5

Chapter Two: HarmfulDiagnostic Deceptions ................... 9

Chapter Three:The Hope of a Real Cure .............. 15

Recommendations ........................ 16

Citizens Commission onHuman Rights International .......... 18

REHAB FRAUD Psychiatrys Drug Scam


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ouldnt a universal, proven cure fordrug addiction be a good thing? Andis it possible?

First, lets clearly define what ismeant by cure. For the individual

a cure means complete and permanent absence ofany overwhelming physical or mental desire, needor compulsion to take drugs. For the society it meansthe rehabilitation of theaddict as a consistentlyhonest, ethical, pro-ductive and successfulmember.

In the 1970s, thisfirst question wouldhave seemed ratherstrange, if not absurd.Of course that would be a good thing! andAre you kidding?would have beencommon responses.

Today, however, the responses are considerablydifferent. A drug addict might answer, Look, donttalk to me about cures, Ive tried every programthere is and failed. None of them work. Or, Youcant cure heredity; my father was an alcoholic.A layperson might say, Theyve already cured it;methadone, isnt it? Or, Theyve found its anincurable brain disease; you know, like diabetes,it cant be cured. Or even, Science found it cant be helped; its something to do with a chemicalimbalance in the brain.

Very noticeable would be the absence of theword, even the idea, ofcure, whether amongst

addicts, families of addicts, government offmedia or anywhere else. In its place are worddisease, illness, chronic, management, maintenreduction and relapse. Addicts in rehab are taugrefer to themselves as recovering, never cuStated in different ways, the implicit consensuhas been created is that drug addiction is incuand something an addict will have to learn to

with or die with.Is all hope lost?Before considerin

that question, it is veimportant to understanone thing about drurehabilitation today. Ouhope of a cure for druaddiction was not lost;was buried by an avalancof false information anfalse solutions.

First of all, considpsychiatrists long-ter

propagation of dangerous drugs as harmless:z In the 1960s, psychiatrists made LSD

only acceptable, but an adventure to tenthousands of college students, promoting the concept of improving life through recreatiomind-altering drugs.

z In 1967, U.S. psychiatrists met to discuss thedrugs in the year 2000. Influential New York psycNathan Kline, who served on committees for thNational Institute of Mental Health and the World HOrganization stated, In principle, I dont see that

are any more abnormal than reading, music, art, yo20 other things if you take a broad point of view1

What Hope Is There?

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It is very important to understandone thing about much of the drug

rehabilitation field today. Our hope of acure for drug addiction was not lost.

It was buried by an avalanche of psychiatrys false information and false

solutions. Drug addiction is not adisease. Real solutions do exist.

Jan Eastgate

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z In 1973, University of California psychiatrist,Louis J. West, wrote, Indeed a debate may soon beraging among some clinical scientists on the questionof whether clinging to the drug-free state of mind isnot an antiquated position for anyone physician orpatient to hold.2

z In the 1980s, Californian psychiatric drug specialist,Ronald K. Siegel, made the outrageous assertion that being drugged is a basic human need, a fourth driveof the same nature as sex, hunger and thirst.3

z In 1980, a study in theComprehensive Textbookof Psychiatry claimed that, taken no more than twoor three times per week, cocaine creates no seri-ous problems.4 According to the head of the DrugEnforcement Administrations office in Connecticut,the false belief that cocaine was not addictivecontributed to the dramatic rise in its usein the 1980s.5

z In 2003, Charles Grob, director of childand adolescent psychiatry at University of CaliforniaHarbor Medical Center believed that Ecstasy(hallucinogenic street drug) was potentially goodmedicine for treating alcoholism and drug abuse.6

Today, drug regulatory agencies all overthe world approve clinical trials for the use ofhallucinogenic drugs to handle anything fromanxiety to alcoholism, despite the drugs being knownto cause psychosis.

The failure of the war against drugs is largely dueto the failure to stop one of the most dangerous drugpushers of all time: the psychiatrist. The sad irony is thathe has also established himself in positions enabling himto control the drug rehab field, even though he can show

no results for the billions awarded by governmentsand legislatures. Governments, groups, families, and

individuals that continue to accept his false informationand drug rehabilitation techniques, do so at their ownperil. The odds overwhelmingly predict that they will failin every respect.

Drug addiction is not adisease. Real solutionsdo exist.

Clearing away psychiatrys false informationabout drugs and addiction is not only a fundamen-tal part of restoring hope, it is the first step towardsachieving real drug rehabilitation.

Sincerely,

Jan EastgatePresident,

Citizens Commissionon Human Rights International

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The goal of psychiatrysMethadone was never a cure

but to make the addictfunctional.

Despite the fact that streetheroin has many more users,methadone kills more people.

Other therapeutic drugslike buprenorphine can causerespiratory depression. 7

Joseph Glenmullen of HarvardMedical School says that potentprescription drugs merely numb feelings just as theaddictive behavior once didand wont enable the personto successfully overcome his orher addiction. 8

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A close review of drug rehabilitationtoday shows it is a field nearlymonopolized by psychiatry.In a 1998 article published in the National Journal of Justice, Alan I.Leshner, professor of psychology and former head ofthe National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), stated,Addiction is rarely an acute illness. For most people,it is a chronic, relapsing disorder. One of todaystop authorities in the field of drug rehabilitation isteaching that, for most people, addiction is a diseasethat the individual willnever overcome.

In the same article,Leshner also definedsupposed positive per-formance in the fieldof drug rehabilitationwith the statement, a good treatmentoutcome and the mostreasonable outcome isa significant decrease indrug use and long peri-ods of abstinence, withonly occasional relapses. Based on his theory, thosewho manage drug rehabilitation are doing a good jobif the addict merely abuses drugs less frequently.

Leshners most revealing statement tells usexactly where curing addiction fits into psychiatricdrug rehabilitation. He says, [A] reasonable stan-dard for treatment success is not curing the illness but managing it, as is the case for other chronic

illnesses. Actually curing drug addiction doesntenter into it at all.

Not surprising, drug abuse is rampant. An esti-mated 5% of the world population age 15 and aboveabuse drugs.

The Methadone Program A Deadly Hoax Psychiatrys flagship drug treatment program is

methadone maintenance for heroin addicts. Just howeffective has this been?

Methadone is falsely promoted as a medicationthat rebalances brain chemistry, blocking the effects ofheroin, and reducing cravings. The goal for methadone

was never a cure. Accor-ding to one of the originalresearchers investigatingmethadone, The goal isNOT abstinence, the goal isto become functional.9

Calling methadonea medication obscuresthe fact that it is anaddictive drug; in fact,methadone is at leastas addictive as heroin. 10 Methadone withdrawalis even tougher than

heroin withdrawal. Babies born to methadonemothers suffer the same withdrawal symptoms,including convulsions. 11

Methadone is a narcotic and cannot perma-nently halt the craving for narcotics, nor canit eliminate the underlying reason the addicttakes drugs.

As one methadone addict testified: I am not

an advocate of methadone for the simple fact that I believe [it] helped me to prolong my active addiction.

Calling it [methadone]a medication obscures the

fact that it is an addictive drug;in fact, methadone is at least

as addictive as heroin. Dr. Miriam Stoppard,

National DrugsHelpline, United Kingdom

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Long-term methadone use kept me trapped as a priof addiction. I was tied to the clinic if you are on done you do not have a life, you are rather a slave drug and everyday existence depends on it.12The clinic

has now become my dealer, reports another addicam now committing crimes to pay for an addictive(methadone). Its really not much different thanstreet. Said one addict who managed to make it thmethadone withdrawal, It is this attitude of futilityhopelessness that methadone gives you it takes awpromise that you can live a drug-free existence.

Current methadone literature must warn of the dlife-threatening risks, including the possibility of carrest, respiratory and circulatory depression, and sOverdose and death can occur.13

During a 10-year period, deaths from methadoEngland increased by more than 710%, from 16 to 131.14 In New South Wales, Australia, there weredeaths related to methadone between 1990 and 19915In2003, methadone caused 2,452 unintentional poisdeaths in the U.S., up from 623 in 1999, accordingNational Center for Health Statistics.16

After taking heroin for three weeks, Patricia Cl38-year-old husband admitted himself to a Mental HFamily Counseling Center for methadone treatmReacting severely to the methadone, a week later, hefor the dosage to be reduced, but there were no doavailable at the time to adjust the dosage. Two dayshe was dead. The coroner determined the cause of was Acute Methadone Poisoning.

Aside from methadone, there is also buprenorpa narcotic used to treat heroin addiction.16Buprenorphinelike morphine, can cause respiratory depression andon already drug dependent individuals can result in wdrawal effects.17Another drug, ketamine, is a veterinanesthetic that produces hallucinatory effects and adoses delirium, amnesia, impaired motor functionfatal respiratory effects.

Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical Schoothat potent prescription drugs merely numb feelingas the addictive behavior once did and wont enabperson to successfully overcome his or her addiction18

It is interesting to recall Leshners statement thatadone maintenance achieves a significant decrease i

In reality, all the methadone program achieves is a reduction in

heroin usage, and it achieves thisthrough an increase in

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use and long periods of abstinence. In reality, all the meth-adone program achieves is areduction in heroinusage, andit achieves this through anincrease in methadoneusage. Alegal and highly addictive drug euphemistically called amedication has been substituted for an illegal andhighly addictive drug.

The same deception is reflected in a report fromthe U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration, which stated that substance abuse pro-grams were working. Yet the survey of less than onepercent of the countrys users showed 79% of those sur-veyed had not reduced their illicit drug usage and 86%had not lessened their heroin usage.

In Belgium, methadone prescriptions increasedtenfold over a four-year period.19In the Netherlands,more than 50% of methadone is dispensed throughcommunity-based private practice methadone buses to supply 100 or more patients with the drug.A French narcotics officer described the Netherlandsas Europes drug supermarket.

In 1987, NIDA launched a campaign to use thefull power of science to stop a troubling spread ofheroin use among our nations youth. However, by1995, there were 500,000 heroin addicts in the UnitedStates. After billions of dollars spent on supposed drugabuse research and psychiatric treatment, the numberof heroin addicts in the U.S. has reached one million,equal to the total number of addicts for all of Europe.

While drug addiction can be overwhelming, itis important to know that psychiatry, its diagnosesand its drugs, are not working. Their drugs andmethods only chemically mask problems and

symptoms; they cannot and never will be able tosolve addiction.

While celebrated as an exemplary success by psychia-trists, the truth is that their methadone program isno more than an unmitigated failure for the indi-

vidual drug addict and for society. The following are statementsfrom addicts who have been through methadone programs:

Methadone maintenance is institutionalized misery.It does not address the emotional and spiritual disease thatdrug addiction is. The heroin addict who finds his way to methadone treatment and does nothing else is only switching seats on the Titanic.

Sam, former heroin addict

Methadone is probably the worst thing that can be givento somebody because youre saying its okay to get high.

Scott, heroin addict who spent two years on methadone

I have been a methadone maintenance dupe for 6 years.I wanted my life back. So I started cutting my dosage way down, skipping days, and only taking as little as possible.Now Im on my 10th day without anything. I am just tooold to feel this bad for much longer. I can do a dope kick in57 days, at the end, feeling fine. But this? Whoever thoughtof giving methadone to kick heroin must have been a mean,sadistic person Ive heard this could go on for up to 6months. Ill be insane by then.

Nanci, coming off methadone

I went through all the different [psychiatric-based]rehabilitation methods available in Australia in an effort to getaway from drugs and to get back my life; methadone, twelve-step programs, counseling you name it, I did it. Some of thesemethods, more than twice. In the end, relapse after relapse.

G.C., former heroin addict

I was on methadone for five years and it was muchharder to get off than heroin. You cant skip a day going tothe methadone clinic or you immediately get really sick. Itstotally a trap.

J.J., former heroin addict

REHAB FAILURLike Switching Seats

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Redefining addiction as amental disorder justifies the useof psychiatry and psychology inthe treatment of it.

Psychiatrys Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM) listssubstance abuse andintoxication as disorders sothat insurance companies andgovernments can be billed.

Canadian psychologistTana Dineen says, Addictiontreatment is a cash cow of thepsychology industry, whichhas argued, in most casessuccessfully, that treatment of the disease ought to becovered by health insurance.

Other related psychiatricdeceptions include the conceptof drug addiction as a braindisease, and the existence of chemical imbalance in thebrain. These are no morethan theories quoted as fact.

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The Diagnostic and Statistical ManofMental Disorders (DSM) and ment

disorders section of theInternational Classificatof Diseases (ICD-10) label drug addictio

mental disorder, providing psychexcuse to treat, but nev

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Between 1997 and 1999, 100 psychosurgeryoperations were conducted on teenage addicts inSt. Petersburg, Russia.25 They drilled my headwithout any anesthetic, Alexander Lusikian

said. They kept drilling and cauterizing [burn-ing] exposed areas of my brain blood waseverywhere. During the three or four daysafter the operation the pain in my head was soterrible as if it had been beaten with a baseball bat. And when the pain passed a little, I still feltthe desire to take drugs. Within two months,Alexander had reverted to drugs.26

Russian addicts were also strapped to bedsand beaten, while being fed only bread andwater during withdrawal. At the LeningradRegional Center ofAddictions, alcohol-ics and heroin addictsare administered ket-amine, an anestheticwith strong halluci-nogenic properties,in conjunction withtalk therapy. 27 Thetherapists forced thesubjects to sniff a bottleof vodka at the peak ofthe ketamine-inducedhallucination. Andwhile the patientsrevulsion for drugspersists after the ket-amines effects haveworn off, they nor-mally revert to drugswithin a year. 28

Australia establishedlegal heroin injectionrooms known as shoot-ing galleries.

The last thingany psychiatric treat-

ment has achieved isrehabilitation.

As reported in a 2001 survey of Americancompanies about the effectiveness of substanceabuse programs for their employees, theoverwhelming majority saw few results from

these programs. In the survey, 87% reported littleor no change in absenteeism since the programs began and 90% saw little or no changes inproductivity ratings. 29.

Harm Reduction HarmsBut its failures notwithstanding, psy-

chiatry plows ahead with another justifica-tion harm reduction the idea that drugabuse is a human right and that the onlycompassionate response is to make it safer to

be an addict. This hasled to such infamousdevelopments asAustralias shootinggalleries, Switzerlandand Germanysneedle parks andHollands needleexchange programs. 30

The needle parksin Switzerland quickly became killing fields

Scores of Russian teenage drugaddicts have received brain

surgery in a barbaric and failedeffort to handle their addictions.

There are a great many waysto do science badly, and the junk science that makes up the bulk of the body of knowledge of clinicalpsychology manages to exemplify

every one of them.

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as addicts flooded in from across Europe, fol-lowed by gangs of violent drug dealers openlymarketing their wares at tables, and helping junkies to inject their drug of choice. Infectedneedles boosted the HIV rates.

While Baltimore once proclaimed thatharm reduction would be more effective thanlaw enforcement, the results have been tragic.

Baltimores drug-overdose death rate rose to become five times that of New York Citys.

Its homicide rate was six times greater. 31According to psychiatrist Sally Satel, H

reduction holds that drug abuse is inevitable,so society should try to minimize the damagedone to addicts by drugs (disease, overdose)and to society by addicts (crime, health carecosts). But since harm reduction makes nodemands on addicts, it consigns them to their

addiction, aiming only to allow them to desthemselves in relative safety and at taxpay-ers expense. 32

While the National Institute of DrugAbuse might claim that addiction is a chrorelapsing brain disease, Dr. Satel calls thispessimistic. Candidly she states, Whenthe treatment system doesnt do a good job,you just fall back on that [excuse]. She insiststhat addiction is fundamentally a problemwith behavior, over which addicts can havevoluntary control.

Dr. Tana Dineen, Ph.D. states: It seems,whatever the results, addiction treatment inpsychologys and psychiatrys hands, is idfiably a business that ignores its failures. In factits failures lead to more business. Its techno

based on continued recovery, presumes relapRecidivism is used as an argument for furtherfunding. 33

Harm reduction and psychiatric or psy-chological drug rehab programs overlook thereal victims the mother who loses a childthrough a drug overdose, the family that cantgo out at night because of neighborhood drug

gangs and the many others who live in fear ofdrug violence.

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Professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk,authors of Making Us Crazy , warned thatpeople may gain false comfort from a diag-

nostic psychiatric manual that encourages belief in the illusion that the harshness, brutality, andpain in their lives and in their communities canbe explained by a psychiatric label and eradicatedby a pill.

John Read, senior lecturer in psychology at AucklandUniversity, New Zea landput it this way: Moreand more problemshave been redefined asdisorders or illnesses,supposedly caused by genetic predispositions

and biochemical imbal-ances. Life events are rel-egated to mere triggers of an underlying biologicaltime bomb. Worryingtoo much is anxiety disorder. Excessive gam-bling, drinking, drug useor eating are also illnesses. Making lists of behav-iors, applying medical-sounding labels to peoplewho engage in them, thenusing the presence of thosebehaviors to prove they have the illness in ques-tion is scientifically mean-ingless. It tells us nothingabout causes or solu-tions. It does, however,create the reassuring feeling that something medicalis going on. 34

Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D., points out: Thereare a great many ways to do science badly, and the

junk science that makes up the bulk of the body of

knowledge of clinical psychology manages toexemplify every one of them. 35

Professors Kutchins and Kirk also stated:There are indeed many illusions about DSMand very strong needs among its developers tobelieve that their dreams of scientific excellence andutility have come true, that is, that its diagnosticcriteria have bolstered the validity, reliability,and accuracy of diagnoses used by mental healthclinicians. 36

Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion said: Remember that nobiochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have

been found for compulsive alcohol and drugabuse, overeating, gambling, or any other so-calledmental illness, disease or disorder. 37

Debunking the science of DSM, Peter Tyrer,professor of community psychiatry at ImperialCollege, London, said: I always say that DSM stands

for Diagnosis of Simple Minds; it provides what American [psychiatrists] call operational criteria forthe diagnosis of conditions. Basically, if you have acertain quota then you have the condition. It has ledto a tick-box mentality. Well, you are a bad clinicianif you have to do that. Doctors should be findingout about the person. 38

J. Allan Hobson and Jonathan A. Leonard,authors of Out of Its Mind, Psychiatry in Crisis, A Call for Reform, say that DSM-IVs authoritative statusand detailed nature tends to promote the idea thatrote diagnosis and pill-pushing are acceptable. 39

The sham of psychiatrys invented diagnoses inthe field of drug rehabilitation is preventing curesand perpetuating addiction.

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Psychiatrists have betrayedtheir pledge to help patients inorder to legally push their owndangerous drugs.

While billions in tax dollars

are paid each year to fightdrug abuse, psychiatristsand their institutions andassociations devote their energy and resources to promotingextremely destructive, addictiveand mind-altering drugs as thesolution. But they have noresults to show for it.

Effective drug rehabilitationmethods do exist, but outsideof psychiatric ranks. Suchprograms should be gaugedon how they improve andstrengthen individuals, theirresponsibility, their spiritualwell-being and thereby society.

A former French Minister for Justice, M. Chalandon, said hewas shocked by the attitude of some psychiatrists who arrangeda monopoly over the treatmentof drug addicts and practiced a

kind of intellectual terrorism inthis area.

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Psychiatrists are failed medical practitio-ners who have betrayed their pledge tohelp patients in order to legally pushpsychotropic drugs. While billions intax dollars are paid each year to fightdrug abuse, psychiatrists and their institutions andassociations devote their energy and resources topromoting extremely destructive, addictive andmind-altering drugs asthe solution.

Thankfully, not allrehabilitation programsare based on the psychia-trists fictitious chronic brain disease, or the ideathat addiction is incur-able. As one expert in thisfield stated, Althoughsome may feel that alco-hol and drug addictionis primarily a medicalproblem, close examina-tion does not supportthis view. As such,non-drug alternativeswere recommended. InSpain, an independentsociology group, theTecnicos Asociados de Investigacion y Marketing,conducted a study of such a program, which isavailable in many countries, including Australia,Europe, South Africa and the United States. Prior tostarting the rehab program, over 62% of the subjects

had committed robberies and 73% had been sell-ing drugs to support their habits. The success of

the non-drug rehab program was significant: 78%of the graduates remained drug-free years afterfinishing the regimen, with no subsequent criminalactivity.40

Consider this testimonial from this sameprogram: I was 27 years old, had been using everydrug under the sun for 15 years and was basically inapathy as to whether or not anything could be done

to help me. This was mythird rehab in a year. No matter how hard Itried I couldnt findanything wrong with it.Here was a program thatdidnt have me admit Iwas powerless and dis-eased, want me to relivemy terrible past 90 timesin 90 days (for the restof my life) or want meto take medication formy manic depression. This program notonly showed me how tostay off drugs, it did justwhat it promised, it gaveme a new life.41

Mental healing technology, treatments and drug rehabilitationmethods should be gauged on how they improveand strengthen individuals, their responsibility,their spiritual well-being and thereby society.Treatment that heals should be delivered in

a calm atmosphere characterized by tolerance,safety, security and respect for peoples rights.

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Not all rehabilitation programsare based on the psychiatrists

fictitious brain disease theory or the ideathat addiction is incurable. Here was a

program that didnt have me admit I waspowerless and diseased or want me

to take medication for my manicdepression. This program not only

showed me how to stay off drugs, itdid just what it promised, it gaveme a new life.

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Drug rehabilitation programs should be based on proven, workableresults that return the addict to society, drug-free and productive within thcommunity. Dont accept programs that offer one drug, such as methadonas a trade-off for another.

Remove psychiatrists and psychologists as advisors or counselors from thepolice forces, prisons, criminal and drug rehabilitation and parole servicesDo not permit them to give opinions about or to treat drug addiction,criminal behavior and delinquency.

Seek legal advice about filing a civil suit against any offending psychiatrishis or her hospital, associations and teaching institutions for compensatorypunitive damages.

Ensure taxpayer funds are channeled only into proven, workable drug eduand treatment practices that do not rely on psychiatric drugs and treatment

No person, with a drug problem or not, should ever be forced to undergoelectric shock treatment, psychosurgery, coercive psychiatric treatment, orenforced administration of mind-altering drugs. Governments shouldoutlaw such abuses.

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Dennis D. BauerSenior Deputy District AttorneyOrange County, California:

I found all of your personnel verypositive, eager, intelligent and exception-ally well informed on issues that areobscure to the majority of the population. I commend you and your staff forthe tireless energy and unselfish commit-ment to solving one of societies neglectedand secret problems experimentalpsychiatry.

Robert ButcherBarrister and SolicitorWestern Australia:

I have worked with CCHR since1980 and I know them to be a dedicatedorganization working to achieve betterlegal rights for people with mentalillness. CCHR has written submissions to

government on mental health law reform,raised public awareness about mentalhealth issues and has encouraged andactivated others in their effective effortsto bring about a better, fairer and moreworkable system.

Beverly EakmanBestselling author, CEO, U.S. NationalEducation Consortium:

CCHRs most important contributionhas been to get the international communityand the medical community aware thatit has really gone over the edge of ethicalacceptability in using psychiatric drugs.Now its becoming a big issue and alot of legislators and the national andinternational community are taking the

ball and running with it, realizing thatthis has become unacceptable, and theyretaking CCHR very seriously.

THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It worksshoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share acommon purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to

do so until psychiatrys abusive and coercive practices ceaseand human rights and dignity are returned to all.

For further information:CCHR International

6616 Sunset Blvd.Los Angeles, CA, USA 90028

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Citizens Commissionon Human Rights International

he Citizens Commission on HumanRights (CCHR) was established in1969 by the Church of Scientologyto investigate and expose psychiatricviolations of human rights, and toclean up the field of mental heal-

ing. Today, it has more than 250 chapters in over34 countries. Its board of advisors, calledCommissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educa-tors, artists, business professionals, and civil andhuman rights representatives.

While it doesnt provide medical or legaladvice, it works closely with and supports medicaldoctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus ispsychiatrys fraudulent use of subjective diagno-ses that lack any scientific or medical merit, butwhich are used to reap financial benefits in the bil-lions, mostly from the taxpayers or insurance car-riers. Based on these false diagnoses, psychiatrists justify and prescribe life-damaging treatments,including mind-altering drugs, which mask apersons underlying difficulties and prevent his

or her recovery.

CCHRs work aligns with the UN UniversaDeclaration of Human Rights, in particular thfollowing precepts, which psychiatrists violate oa daily basis:

Article 3: Everyone has the right to life,liberty and security of person.

Article 5: No one shall be subjected to tortureor to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment opunishment.

Article 7: All are equal before the law andare entitled without any discrimination to equaprotection of the law.

Through psychiatrists false diagnoses, stigmatizing labels, easy-seizure commitment law brutal, depersonalizing treatments, thousands oindividuals are harmed and denied their inherenthuman rights.

CCHR has inspired and caused many hun-dreds of reforms by testifying before legislativhearings and conducting public hearings into psychiatric abuse, as well as working with media, lawenforcement and public officials the world over.

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1. Richard Hughs and Robert Brewin,TheTranquilizing of America(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,Inc., New York, 1979), p. 291.2. Louis J. West, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its

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6. Mark Ehrman, The Heretical Dr. X; The PersistentVoice of Harbor-UCLA Psychiatrist Charles Grob isRising Against the Chorus That Has Made EcstasyOne of the Most Demonized Drugs in America. HaveIts Potential Benefits Been Lost in the Din?,Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2003.7. Physicians Desk Reference 1991(MedicalEconomics Co., New Jersey, 1991), p. 1567; JamieTalan, New Drug Treats Heroin Addiction,Newsday, 22 May 2002.8. Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000), p. 310.9. Dr. Miriam Stoppard, National Drugs Helpline (United Kingdom), Internet address: http://www.methadone.html.10. Ibid.11. Dorothy Nelkin, Methadone Maintenance, ATechnological Fix(Cornell University, New York,1973), p. 40.12. Methadone Addiction (And You Thought HeWas Your Friend ), Recovery Zone, NarcoticsAnonymous website, accessed 23 June 2004.13. Ibid.14. Lucy Johnson, Lethal Medicine: Why MethadoneIs Killing More People Than Heroin, Issue, 1521Apr. 1996.

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22. Tana Dineen, Ph.D., Manufacturing Victims (Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing, Montreal2001), p. 214.

23. Fred A. Baughman, Internet address: http://www.adhdfraud.com.

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27. Sandra Blakeslee, Scientist Test Hallucinogefor Mental Ills,The New York Times, 13 Mar. 2001.28. John Horgan, The Electric Kool-Aid ClinicalTrial; LSD and other Hallucinogens were once cosidered promising psychiatric treatments. Viva laRenaissance,New Scientist,26 Feb. 2006

29. Op. cit., Tana Dineen, Ph.D., p. 268.

30. Robin Brunet State-funded Harm Reduction;Drug Liberals Applaud Policies that have RavageVancouver Addicts with Aids,Be Report,1997.

31. Thomas A. Constantine, Begging for a CrimWave, New York Post , 5 June 2001.

32. Ibid.

33.Op. cit., Tana Dineen, Ph.D., p. 215.

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35. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D.,Whores of the Court,The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rapeof American Justice(Harper Collins Publishers,Inc., New York, 1997), p. 20.

36.Op. cit. Kutchins & Kirk, pp. 260, 263.

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38. Anjana Ahuja, Its Time to Stop Taking theTablets Youre Not Ill, Youre Just Alive,TheTimes (London), 19 Feb. 2003.

39. J. Allan Hobson and Jonathan A. Leonard,Out of Its Mind, Psychiatry in Crisis, A Call for Reform(PerseusPublishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001), p. 1

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