FACTS
Child drugging
- More than 2 million children in the United States are on antidepressants.
- More than 4 million children in the United States are on stimulants.
- Some 20 million children worldwide are prescribed psychiatric drugs so dangerous that agencies in Europe, Australia and the US have issued warnings about their serious adverse effects.
The ADHD Fraud
University of Nebraska Professor Dr. Jeanne Stolzer learned of CCHR while researching fraudulent ADHD diagnoses. “I was feeling like a lone wolf out in the middle of Nebraska and I had no idea there was an organization that felt the same way I did. As soon as I learned about CCHR, I was on board.” Specializing in infant and childhood development, Stolzer is alarmed to hear about psychiatric drugs given to infants. “When I tell my students that 1.1 million children 5 years and younger are taking psychiatric drugs, their eyes bug out. They can’t believe it and it makes them want to do something about it.”
To provide tools needed to “distinguish between fact, theory and opinion,” she shows her classes two CCHR documentaries: The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual and Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child. With this foundation, students choose projects to raise awareness of and expose psychiatric drugging. “They have held protests, picketing, have been in local media, TV and radio shows. They set up Facebook and Twitter accounts, they blog and write letters to the editors of newspapers,” Stolzer says.
CCHR’s materials are at the core of her teaching. “The documentaries are thorough, insightful and comprehensive. I appreciate that about CCHR’s materials,” she says.
RESTORE HUMAN RIGHTS TO MENTAL HEALTH
As a nonprofit mental health watchdog, CCHR relies on memberships and donations to carry out its mission to eradicate psychiatric violations of human rights and clean up the field of mental health. To become part of the world’s largest movement for mental health reform, join the group that has helped enact more than 170 laws protecting citizens from abusive mental health practices.
