Scientology CCHR orchestrate FDA hearings into the suicidal side effects of antidepressants - source Wikileaks

From: "Mike Kaplan"


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Subject: Fw: CCHR Vindicated: Psychiatric Drug Risks Were Kept Buried

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:55:08 -0400

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3) READ PRESS RELEASE FROM CCHR BELOW:

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Mental Health Watchdog Vindicated; New Report Confirms Psychiatric Drug

Risks Kept Buried by Vested Interests

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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.

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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.

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Now, a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled,

=93Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on

Apparent Efficacy,=94 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,



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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.=20

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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=92s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

Disorders, comprised of subjective checklists of symptoms which are then

used to categorize new =93mental disorders=94 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, =93We 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.=94

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For more information on the financial ties between psychiatrists and =

drug

manufacturers, read CCHR=92s publication,

Psychiatric =

Diagnostic

Manual Link to Drug Manufacturers.