Psychiatrists arriving in Japan for the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) were greeted by an international protest led by the world's largest psychiatric watchdog, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). Protestors charged psychiatrists with pushing drugs on children and adults and creating killers in the United States and elsewhere by prescribing violent-inducing psychiatric drugs. Japan has recently witnessed the harm created by psychiatric treatments when in June 2001 Mamoru Takuma stabbed eight Japanese schoolchildren to death and wounded 15 others in a frenzied knife attack while under the influence of psychiatric drugs.

LOS ANGELES: With the validity of the American Psychiatric Association's billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), becoming the cornerstone of debate over mental health parity, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has exposed the dangers of relying upon the DSM in its new policy analysis, entitled, "The Vital Case Against Mandated Mental Health Parity: Skyrocketing Costs, More Child Drugging, and More Fraud."

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) today condemned the irresponsible attitude the FDA has taken about America's child drugging epidemic when it approved revised labeling for a stimulant to include the option of sprinkling the drug onto a tablespoon of applesauce.

With Congress scheduled to debate a controversial special education law this year, a California group and a handful of celebrity activists are pointing to what they see as the law's incentives for the "psychiatric drugging of children."

LOS ANGELES, July 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Congress heard testimony yesterday from a psychiatrist promoting the validity of psychiatry's billing bible, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in a push to mandate costly mental health insurance. Missing from the hearing were any of the medical experts who could challenge the psychiatrist's testimony.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) today condemned the irresponsible attitude the FDA has taken about America's child drugging epidemic when it approved revised labeling for a stimulant to include the option of sprinkling the drug onto a tablespoon of applesauce.

More Canadian children are taking Ritalin than ever before, even as critics of the drug grow more wary of its potential side effects. In an exclusive five-part series on the drug, the National Post examines how Ritalin works, its enduring mysteries, potential dangers, and alternative approaches to helping children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

WASHINGTON DC: Lisa Marie Presley addressed a Congressional hearing Thursday, September 26th, voicing her deep concern over the legal psychotropic drugging of millions of American children, stating: "I have spoken to children who have been forced to take a cocaine-like stimulant to control their behavior; I have shared their sense of sheer desperation. Children have been wrenched from their family's care simply because their parents favored an alternative, drug-free approach to addressing educational and behavioral problems. The psychotropic drugging of millions of children has to stop."

There is no mental health system. There are plenty of parts, some of them very good parts, but "there is no system." During a year of research into mental health reform, that phrase was repeated endlessly. It was uttered with frustration, anger, apathy - even desperation. It was uttered by doctors, hospital administrators, outreach workers and - most importantly - people with mental health problems: "There is no system."