Rehab Fraud by ARIO. K

REHAB FRAUD Psychiatry’s Drug Scam

CONTENTS

Introduction: What Hope Is There? ............................... 2 Chapter One: The Selling of ‘Incurable’ ................ 5 Chapter Two: Harmful Diagnostic Deceptions ................... 9 Chapter Three: The Hope of a Real Cure .............. 15 Recommendations ........................ 16 Citizens Commission on Human Rights International .......... 18

INTRODUCTION What Hope Is There?

ouldn’t a universal, proven cure for addicts, families of addicts, government officials, drug addiction be a good thing? And media or anywhere else. In its place are words like is it possible? disease, illness, chronic, management, maintenance, First, let’s clearly define what is reduction and relapse. Addicts in rehab are taught to meant by “cure.” For the individual refer to themselves as “recovering,” never “cured.” a cure means complete and permanent absence of Stated in different ways, the implicit consensus that any overwhelming physical or mental desire, need has been created is that drug addiction is incurable or compulsion to take drugs. For the society it means and something an addict will have to learn to live the rehabilitation of the with — or die with. addict as a consistently Is all hope lost? “It is very important to understand honest, ethical, proBefore considering one thing about much of the drug ductive and successful that question, it is very member. important to understand rehabilitation field today. Our hope of a In the 1970s, this one thing about drug cure for drug addiction was not lost. first question would rehabilitation today. Our It was buried by an avalanche of have seemed rather hope of a cure for drug psychiatry’s false information and false strange, if not absurd. addiction was not lost; it solutions. Drug addiction is not a “Of course that would was buried by an avalanche disease. Real solutions do exist.” be a good thing!” and of false information and “Are you kidding?” false solutions. — Jan Eastgate would have been First of all, consider common responses. psychiatrists’ long-term Today, however, the responses are considerably propagation of dangerous drugs as “harmless”: different. A drug addict might answer, “Look, don’t z In the 1960s, psychiatrists made LSD not talk to me about cures, I’ve tried every program only acceptable, but an “adventure” to tens of there is and failed. None of them work.” Or, “You thousands of college students, promoting the false can’t cure heredity; my father was an alcoholic.” concept of improving life through “recreational,” A layperson might say, “They’ve already cured it; mind-altering drugs. methadone, isn’t it?” Or, “They’ve found it’s an z In 1967, U.S. psychiatrists met to discuss the role of incurable brain disease; you know, like diabetes, drugs in the year 2000. Influential New York psychiatrist it can’t be cured.” Or even, “Science found it can’t Nathan Kline, who served on committees for the U.S. be helped; it’s something to do with a chemical National Institute of Mental Health and the World Health imbalance in the brain.” Organization stated, “In principle, I don’t see that drugs Very noticeable would be the absence of the are any more abnormal than reading, music, art, yoga, or word, even the idea, of cure, whether amongst 20 other things — if you take a broad point of view.”1

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z In 1973, University of California psychiatrist, Louis J. West, wrote, “Indeed a debate may soon be raging among some clinical scientists on the question of whether clinging to the drug-free state of mind is not an antiquated position for anyone — physician or patient — 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 drive” of the same nature as sex, hunger and thirst.3 z In 1980, a study in the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry claimed that, “taken no more than two or three times per week, cocaine creates no serious problems.”4 According to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in Connecticut, the false belief that cocaine was not addictive contributed to the dramatic rise in its use in the 1980s.5 z In 2003, Charles Grob, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at University of California Harbor Medical Center believed that Ecstasy (hallucinogenic street drug) was potentially “good medicine” for treating alcoholism and drug abuse.6 Today, drug regulatory agencies all over the world approve clinical trials for the use of hallucinogenic drugs to handle anything from anxiety to alcoholism, despite the drugs being known to cause psychosis. The failure of the war against drugs is largely due to the failure to stop one of the most dangerous drug pushers of all time: the psychiatrist. The sad irony is that he has also established himself in positions enabling him to control the drug rehab field, even though he can show no results for the billions awarded by governments and legislatures. Governments, groups, families, and

individuals that continue to accept his false information and drug rehabilitation techniques, do so at their own peril. The odds overwhelmingly predict that they will fail in every respect. Drug addiction is not a disease. Real solutions do exist. Clearing away psychiatry’s false information about drugs and addiction is not only a fundamental part of restoring hope, it is the first step towards achieving real drug rehabilitation. Sincerely,

Jan Eastgate President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

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IMPORTANT FACTS

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The goal of psychiatry’s Methadone was never a cure but to make the addict “functional.”

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

Other “therapeutic” drugs like buprenorphine can cause respiratory depression.7

Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical School says that potent prescription drugs merely “numb feelings just as the addictive behavior once did” and won’t enable the person to successfully overcome his or her addiction.8

Methadone, itself a narcotic, cannot permanently halt the craving for narcotics.

CHAPTER ONE The Selling of ‘Incurable’

close review of drug rehabilitation Not surprising, drug abuse is rampant. An estitoday shows it is a field nearly mated 5% of the world population age 15 and above monopolized by psychiatry. abuse drugs. In a 1998 article published in the “National Journal of Justice,” Alan I. The Methadone Program — A Deadly Hoax Leshner, professor of psychology and former head of Psychiatry’s flagship drug treatment program is the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), stated, methadone maintenance for heroin addicts. Just how “Addiction is rarely an acute illness. For most people, effective has this been? it is a chronic, relapsing disorder.” One of today’s Methadone is falsely promoted as a “medication” top “authorities” in the field of drug rehabilitation is that rebalances brain chemistry, blocking the effects of teaching that, for most people, addiction is a “disease” heroin, and reducing cravings. The goal for methadone that the individual will was never a cure. Accornever overcome. ding to one of the original researchers investigating In the same article, “Calling it [methadone] methadone, “The goal is Leshner also defined a medication obscures the NOT abstinence, the goal is supposed positive perfact that it is an addictive drug; to become functional.”9 formance in the field of drug rehabilitation Calling methadone in fact, methadone is at least with the statement, a medication obscures as addictive as heroin.” “… a good treatment the fact that it is an outcome — and the most addictive drug; in fact, — Dr. Miriam Stoppard, reasonable outcome — is methadone is at least National Drugs a significant decrease in as addictive as heroin.10 Helpline, United Kingdom drug use and long periMethadone withdrawal ods of abstinence, with is even tougher than only occasional relapses.” Based on his theory, those heroin withdrawal. Babies born to methadone who manage drug rehabilitation are doing a good job mothers suffer the same withdrawal symptoms, if the addict merely abuses drugs less frequently. including convulsions.11 Leshner’s most revealing statement tells us Methadone is a narcotic and cannot permaexactly where curing addiction fits into psychiatric nently halt the craving for narcotics, nor can drug rehabilitation. He says, “[A] reasonable stan- it eliminate the underlying reason the addict dard for treatment success is not curing the illness takes drugs. but managing it, as is the case for other chronic As one methadone addict testified: “I am not illnesses.” Actually curing drug addiction doesn’t an advocate of methadone for the simple fact that I enter into it at all. believe [it] helped me to prolong my active addiction.

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Long-term methadone use kept me trapped as a prisoner of addiction. I was tied to the clinic … if you are on methadone you do not have a ‘life,’ you are rather a slave to this drug and everyday existence depends on it.”12 “The clinic has now become my dealer,” reports another addict. “I am now committing crimes to pay for an addictive drug (methadone). It’s really not much different than the street.” Said one addict who managed to make it through methadone withdrawal, “It is this attitude of futility and hopelessness that methadone gives you — it takes away the promise that you can live a drug-free existence.” Current methadone literature must warn of the drug’s life-threatening risks, including the possibility of cardiac arrest, respiratory and circulatory depression, and shock. Overdose and death can occur.13 During a 10-year period, deaths from methadone in England increased by more than 710%, from 16 deaths to 131.14 In New South Wales, Australia, there were 242 deaths related to methadone between 1990 and 1995.15 In 2003, methadone caused 2,452 unintentional poisoning deaths in the U.S., up from 623 in 1999, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.16 After taking heroin for three weeks, Patricia Cluka’s 38-year-old husband admitted himself to a Mental Health Family Counseling Center for methadone treatment. Reacting severely to the methadone, a week later, he asked for the dosage to be reduced, but there were no doctors available at the time to adjust the dosage. Two days later, he was dead. The coroner determined the cause of death was “Acute Methadone Poisoning.” Aside from methadone, there is also buprenorphine, a narcotic used to treat heroin addiction.16 Buprenorphine, like morphine, can cause respiratory depression and used on already drug dependent individuals can result in withdrawal effects.17 Another drug, ketamine, is a veterinary anesthetic that produces hallucinatory effects and at high doses delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function, and fatal respiratory effects. Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical School says that potent prescription drugs merely “numb feelings just as the addictive behavior once did” and won’t enable the person to successfully overcome his or her addiction.18 It is interesting to recall Leshner’s statement that methadone maintenance achieves “a significant decrease in drug In reality, all the methadone program achieves is a reduction in heroin usage, and it achieves this through an increase in methadone usage.

REHAB FAILURE Like Switching Seats on the Titanic

hile celebrated as an exemplary success by psychiatrists, the truth is that their methadone program is no more than an unmitigated failure for the individual drug addict and for society. The following are statements from addicts who have been through methadone programs:

use and long periods of abstinence.” In reality, all the methadone program achieves is a reduction in heroin usage, and it achieves this through an increase in methadone usage. A legal and highly addictive drug — euphemistically called a medication — has been substituted for an illegal and highly addictive drug. The same deception is reflected in a report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which stated that substance abuse programs were “working.” Yet the survey of less than one percent of the country’s users showed 79% of those surveyed had not reduced their illicit drug usage and 86% had not lessened their heroin usage. In Belgium, methadone prescriptions increased tenfold over a four-year period.19 In the Netherlands, more than 50% of methadone is dispensed through community-based private practice “methadone buses” to supply 100 or more patients with the drug. A French narcotics officer described the Netherlands as “Europe’s drug supermarket.” In 1987, NIDA launched a campaign to use “the full power of science to stop a troubling spread of heroin use among our nation’s youth.” However, by 1995, there were 500,000 heroin addicts in the United States. After billions of dollars spent on supposed drug abuse research and psychiatric treatment, the number of 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, it is important to know that psychiatry, its diagnoses and its drugs, are not working. Their drugs and methods only chemically mask problems and symptoms; they cannot and never will be able to solve addiction.

“Methadone maintenance is institutionalized misery. It does not address the emotional and spiritual disease that drug 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 given to somebody because you’re saying it’s 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 I’m on my 10th day without anything. I am just too old to feel this bad for much longer. I can do a ‘dope’ kick in 5–7 days, at the end, feeling fine. But this? Whoever thought of giving methadone to kick heroin must have been a mean, sadistic person … I’ve heard this could go on for up to 6 months. I’ll 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 get away from drugs and to get back my life; methadone, twelvestep programs, counseling — you name it, I did it. Some of these methods, more than twice. In the end, relapse after relapse.” —

G.C., former heroin addict

“I was on methadone for five years and it was much harder to get off than heroin. You can’t skip a day going to the methadone clinic or you immediately get really sick. It’s totally a trap.” —

J.J., former heroin addict

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Redefining addiction as a mental disorder justifies the use of psychiatry and psychology in the treatment of it. Psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM) lists substance abuse and intoxication as disorders so that insurance companies and governments can be billed. Canadian psychologist Tana Dineen says, “Addiction treatment is a cash cow of the psychology industry, which has argued, in most cases successfully, that treatment of the ‘disease’ ought to be covered by health insurance.” Other related psychiatric deceptions include the concept of drug addiction as a brain disease, and the existence of “chemical imbalance” in the brain. These are no more than theories quoted as fact.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and mental disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) label drug addiction as a “mental disorder,” providing psychiatrists the excuse to treat, but never cure, drug dependence.

CHAPTER TWO Harmful Diagnostic Deceptions

ethadone treatment is a decep- Intoxication” to cover the various types of “mental tion and failure. Redefining drug disorders” related to these substances. There’s addiction as a treatable “disease” even “Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder.” This generalized classification gives rise to is part of the deception. According to Thomas Szasz, some outrageously false psychiatric claims: “24% renowned author and professor of psychiatry of American men have a lifetime diagnosis of emeritus, “[T]here is not one iota of evidence Alcohol Abuse or Alcohol Dependence,” and that addiction is a brain disease.” Szasz says that “24.1% of the population, or every second person, by defining the use or abuse of illegal drugs as a has some kind of mental disorder.” The media quote “disease,” this places the treatment for it within these bold pronouncements as fact. However, in the province of the psytheir book Making Us Crazy, Professors Herb chiatrist. Psychiatrists then describe the course Kutchins and Stuart “[T]here is not one iota of of this “untreated disA. Kirk say, “Such evidence” that addiction is a brain ease” as a “steady statistics come from disease. “Psychiatrists maintain that our deterioration leading studies that are based understanding of mental illnesses as brain on DSM’s inadequate straight to the insane asylum,” and prescribe definition of mental disdiseases is … made possible by its “treatment”: “psyorder. … DSM is used to imaging techniques for diagnosis and chiatric coercion with directly affect national pharmacological agents for or without the use of health policy and pritreatment. This is not true.” additional, ‘therapeutic’ orities by inflating drugs (heroin for morthe proportion of the — Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of phine; methadone for population that is psychiatry emeritus, author of Pharmocracy heroin…).”20 defined as ‘mentally disThe American Psyordered.’” The numbers chiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical are also used to “shape mental health policy and Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) and the allocation of federal and state revenues.”21 Europe’s International Classification of Diseases Michael First, one of the developers of the (ICD), mental disorders section provide all- DSM-IV, is quoted as saying that the DSM inclusive listings, lumping together everything “provides a nice, neat way of feeling you have from alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, control over mental disorders,” but he confessed hallucinogens, inhalants, nicotine, sedatives and this is “an illusion.” hypnotics to caffeine. The DSM-IV lists “Substance Canadian psychologist Tana Dineen, author Dependence,” “Substance Abuse” and “Substance of Manufacturing Victims, said, “Addiction

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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

What Experts Say “‘Biological psychiatry’ has yet to validate a single psychiatric condition/diagnosis as an abnormality/disease, or as anything ‘neurological,’ ‘biological,’ ‘chemically imbalanced’ or ‘genetic.’”

— Pediatric Neurologist Fred Baughman, Jr.

Psychiatry and psychology’s addiction treatment “is identifiably a business that ignores its failures. In fact its failures lead to more business. Its technology, based on continued recovery, presumes relapses. Recidivism is used as an argument for further funding. …”

— Dr. Tana Dineen, Ph.D., author, Manufacturing Victims “The theories are held onto not only because there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.”

— Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain

“There is no evidence confirming ‘brain disease attribution.’”

— Loren Mosher, M.D.

treatment is a cash cow of the psychology industry, which has argued, in most cases successfully, that treatment of the ‘disease’ ought to be covered by health insurance.”22 As for Leshner’s claim that addiction is a “brain disease,” in his book, Pharmocracy, Professor Szasz says, “Psychiatrists maintain that our understanding of mental illnesses as brain diseases is based on recent discoveries in neuroscience, made possible by imaging techniques for diagnosis and pharmacological agents for treatment. This is not true.” Pediatric neurologist Fred Baughman, Jr. says that ”’biological psychiatry’ has yet to validate a single psychiatric condition/diagnosis as an abnormality/disease, or as anything ‘neurological,’ ‘biological,’ ‘chemically imbalanced’ or ‘genetic.’”23 Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain is unequivocal: “The theories are held onto not only because there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.” The obvious conclusion, then, is that due to their drug rehabilitation failures, psychiatry redefined drug addiction as a “treatable brain disease,” making it conveniently “incurable” and requiring massive additional funds for “research” and to maintain treatment for the addiction.

More Celebrated Poor Results Since the 1950s, psychiatry has monopolized the field of drug rehabilitation research and treatments. Its long list of failed cures has included lobotomies, insulin shock, psychoanalysis and LSD. “Ultra Rapid Opiate Detoxification,” a more recent example, uses narcotics to keep an addict unconscious for about five hours, during which withdrawal supposedly takes place. One recipient of this treatment told of awaking, her mouth and throat blood-filled, with broken capillaries in her face, and tremendous cramping, nausea and convulsions.24

Between 1997 and 1999, 100 psychosurgery As reported in a 2001 survey of American operations were conducted on teenage addicts in companies about the effectiveness of “substance St. Petersburg, Russia.25 “They drilled my head abuse” programs for their employees, “the without any anesthetic,” Alexander Lusikian overwhelming majority saw few results from said. “They kept drilling and cauterizing [burn- these programs. In the survey, 87% reported little ing] exposed areas of my brain … blood was or no change in absenteeism since the programs everywhere. … During the three or four days began and 90% saw little or no changes in after the operation … the pain in my head was so productivity ratings.”29. terrible — as if it had been beaten with a baseball bat. And when the pain passed a little, I still felt “Harm Reduction” Harms the desire to take drugs.” Within two months, But its failures notwithstanding, psyAlexander had reverted to drugs.26 chiatry plows ahead with another justificaRussian addicts were also strapped to beds tion — “harm reduction” — the idea that “drug and beaten, while being fed only bread and abuse is a human right and that the only water during withdrawal. At the Leningrad compassionate response is to make it safer to Regional Center of be an addict.” This has Addictions, alcoholled to such infamous “There are a great many ways ics and heroin addicts developments as are administered ketAustralia’s “shooting to do science badly, and the junk amine, an anesthetic galleries,” Switzerland science that makes up the bulk of with strong halluciand Germany’s nogenic properties, “needle parks” and the body of ‘knowledge’ of clinical in conjunction with Holland’s needle psychology manages to exemplify “talk therapy.”27 The exchange programs.30 every one of them. …” therapists forced the The needle parks subjects to sniff a bottle in Switzerland quickly — Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D. of vodka at the peak of became killing fields the ketamine-induced hallucination. And while the patients’ revulsion for drugs persists after the ketamine’s effects have worn off, they normally revert to drugs within a year.28 Australia established legal “heroin injection rooms” known as “shooting galleries.” The last thing any psychiatric treatment has achieved is rehabilitation. Scores of Russian teenage drug addicts have received brain surgery in a barbaric and failed effort to handle their addictions.

Its homicide rate was six times greater.31 According to psychiatrist Sally Satel, “Harm reduction holds that drug abuse is inevitable, so society should try to minimize the damage done to addicts by drugs (disease, overdose) and to society by addicts (crime, health care costs). … But since harm reduction makes no demands on addicts, it consigns them to their addiction, aiming only to allow them to destroy themselves in relative ‘safety’ — and at taxpayers’ expense.”32 While the National Institute of Drug Abuse might claim that addiction is a “chronic, relapsing brain disease,” Dr. Satel calls this “pessimistic.” Candidly she states, “When the treatment system doesn’t do a good job, you just fall back on that [excuse].” She insists that addiction is fundamentally a problem with behavior, over which addicts can have voluntary control. Dr. Tana Dineen, Ph.D. states: “It seems, whatever the results,” addiction treatment in psychology’s and psychiatry’s hands, “is identifiably a business that ignores its failures. In fact its failures lead to more business. Its technology, based on continued recovery, presumes relapses. Recidivism is used as an argument for further funding. …”33 Harm reduction and psychiatric or psychological drug rehab programs overlook the real victims — the mother who loses a child through a drug overdose, the family that can’t go out at night because of neighborhood drug gangs and the many others who live in fear of drug violence.

as addicts flooded in from across Europe, followed by gangs of violent drug dealers openly marketing their wares at tables, and helping junkies to inject their drug of choice. Infected needles boosted the HIV rates. While Baltimore once proclaimed that harm reduction would be more effective than law enforcement, the results have been tragic. Baltimore’s drug-overdose death rate rose to become five times that of New York City’s.

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FATAL FLAW

Psychiatry’s Lack of Science

rofessors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors of Making Us Crazy, warned that people “may gain false comfort from a diagnostic psychiatric manual that encourages belief in the illusion that the harshness, brutality, and pain in their lives and in their communities can be explained by a psychiatric label and eradicated by a pill.” John Read, senior lecturer in psychology at Auckland University, New Zealand put it this way: “More and more problems have been redefined as ‘disorders’ or ‘illnesses’, supposedly caused by genetic predispositions and biochemical imbalances. Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb. … Worrying too much is ‘anxiety disorder.’ Excessive gambling, drinking, drug use or eating are also illnesses. … Making lists of behaviors, applying medicalsounding labels to people who engage in them, then using the presence of those behaviors to prove they have the illness in question is scientifically meaningless. It tells us nothing about causes or solutions. It does, however, create the reassuring feeling that something medical is going on.”34 Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D., points out: “There are 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 to exemplify every one of them. …”35 Professors Kutchins and Kirk also stated: “There are indeed many illusions about DSM and very strong needs among its developers to believe that their dreams of scientific excellence and utility have come true, that is, that its diagnostic criteria have bolstered the validity, reliability, and accuracy of diagnoses used by mental health clinicians.”36

Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion said: “Remember that no biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for … compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling, or any other so-called mental illness, disease or disorder.”37 Debunking the science of DSM, Peter Tyrer, professor of community psychiatry at Imperial College, London, said: “I always say that DSM stands

for Diagnosis of Simple Minds; it provides what American [psychiatrists] call ‘operational criteria’ for the diagnosis of conditions. Basically, if you have a certain quota then you have the condition. It has led to a tick-box mentality. Well, you are a bad clinician if you have to do that. Doctors should be finding out 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-IV’s “authoritative status and detailed nature tends to promote the idea that rote diagnosis and pill-pushing are acceptable.”39 The sham of psychiatry’s invented diagnoses in the field of drug rehabilitation is preventing cures and perpetuating addiction.

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Psychiatrists have betrayed their pledge to help patients in order to legally push their own dangerous drugs. While billions in tax dollars are paid each year to fight drug abuse, psychiatrists and their institutions and associations devote their energy and resources to promoting extremely destructive, addictive and mind-altering drugs as the “solution.” But they have no results to show for it. Effective drug rehabilitation methods do exist, but outside of psychiatric ranks. Such programs should be gauged on how they improve and strengthen individuals, their responsibility, their spiritual well-being and thereby society. A former French Minister for Justice, M. Chalandon, said he was shocked by “the attitude of some psychiatrists who arranged a monopoly over the treatment of drug addicts and practiced a kind of intellectual terrorism in this area.”

CHAPTER THREE The Hope of a Real Cure

sychiatrists are failed medical practitio- the non-drug rehab program was significant: 78% ners who have betrayed their pledge to of the graduates remained drug-free years after help patients in order to legally push finishing the regimen, with no subsequent criminal psychotropic drugs. While billions in activity.40 tax dollars are paid each year to fight Consider this testimonial from this same drug abuse, psychiatrists and their institutions and program: “I was 27 years old, had been using every associations devote their energy and resources to drug under the sun for 15 years and was basically in promoting extremely destructive, addictive and apathy as to whether or not anything could be done mind-altering drugs as to help me. This was my the “solution.” third rehab in a year. … No matter how hard I Thankfully, not all Not all rehabilitation programs tried … I couldn’t find rehabilitation programs are based on the psychiatrist’s anything wrong with it. are based on the psychiafictitious brain disease theory or the idea Here was a program that trist’s fictitious chronic didn’t have me admit I brain disease, or the idea that addiction is incurable. “Here was a that addiction is incurprogram that didn’t have me admit I was was powerless and diseased, want me to relive able. As one expert in this powerless and diseased … or want me my terrible past 90 times field stated, “Although to take ‘medication’ for my ‘manic in 90 days (for the rest some may feel that alcoof my life) or want me hol and drug addiction depression’. … This program not only to take ‘medication’ for is primarily a medical showed me how to stay off drugs, it my ‘manic depression’. problem, close examinadid just what it promised, it gave … This program not tion does not support me a new life.” only showed me how to this view.” As such, stay off drugs, it did just non-drug alternatives — Former addict what it promised, it gave were recommended. In me a new life.”41 Spain, an independent sociology group, the Mental healing Tecnicos Asociados de Investigacion y Marketing, technology, treatments and drug rehabilitation conducted a study of such a program, which is methods should be gauged on how they improve available in many countries, including Australia, and strengthen individuals, their responsibility, Europe, South Africa and the United States. Prior to their spiritual well-being and thereby society. starting the rehab program, over 62% of the subjects Treatment that heals should be delivered in had committed robberies and 73% had been sell- a calm atmosphere characterized by tolerance, ing drugs to support their habits. The success of safety, security and respect for people’s rights.

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RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations

Drug rehabilitation programs should be based on proven, workable results that return the addict to society, drug-free and productive within the community. Donâ€™t accept programs that offer one drug, such as methadone, as a trade-off for another.

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

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Seek legal advice about filing a civil suit against any offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital, associations and teaching institutions for compensatory and punitive damages.

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

No person, with a drug problem or not, should ever be forced to undergo electric shock treatment, psychosurgery, coercive psychiatric treatment, or the enforced administration of mind-altering drugs. Governments should outlaw such abuses.

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MISSION STATEMENT THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to do so until psychiatryâ€™s abusive and coercive practices cease and human rights and dignity are returned to all. Dennis D. Bauer Senior Deputy District Attorney Orange County, California: â€œI found all of your personnel very positive, eager, intelligent and exceptionally well informed on issues that are obscure to the majority of the population. â€Ś I commend you and your staff for the tireless energy and unselfish commitment to solving one of societies neglected and secret problems â€” â€˜experimental psychiatry.â€™â€? Robert Butcher Barrister and Solicitor Western Australia: â€œI have worked with CCHR since 1980 and I know them to be a dedicated organization working to achieve better legal rights for people with mental illness. CCHR has written submissions to

government on mental health law reform, raised public awareness about mental health issues and has encouraged and activated others in their effective efforts to bring about a better, fairer and more workable system.â€? Beverly Eakman Bestselling author, CEO, U.S. National Education Consortium: â€œCCHRâ€™s most important contribution has been to get the international community and the medical community aware that it has really gone over the edge of ethical acceptability in using psychiatric drugs. Now itâ€™s becoming a big issue and a lot of legislators and the national and international community are taking the ball and running with it, realizing that this has become unacceptable, and theyâ€™re taking CCHR very seriously.â€?

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

CCHR’s work aligns with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the following precepts, which psychiatrists violate on a daily basis:

he Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights, and to clean up the field of mental healing. Today, it has more than 250 chapters in over 34 countries. Its board of advisors, called Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educators, artists, business professionals, and civil and human rights representatives.

Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.

While it doesn’t provide medical or legal advice, it works closely with and supports medical doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus is psychiatry’s fraudulent use of subjective “diagnoses” that lack any scientific or medical merit, but which are used to reap financial benefits in the billions, mostly from the taxpayers or insurance carriers. Based on these false diagnoses, psychiatrists justify and prescribe life-damaging treatments, including mind-altering drugs, which mask a person’s underlying difficulties and prevent his or her recovery.

Through psychiatrists’ false diagnoses, stigmatizing labels, easy-seizure commitment laws, brutal, depersonalizing “treatments,” thousands of individuals are harmed and denied their inherent human rights. CCHR has inspired and caused many hundreds of reforms by testifying before legislative hearings and conducting public hearings into psychiatric abuse, as well as working with media, law enforcement and public officials the world over.

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Australia P.O. Box 6402 North Sydney New South Wales 2059 Australia Phone: 612-9964-9844 & NBJM DDISBO[P!UQH DPN BV

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Finland Post Box 145 00511 Helsinki, Finland Phone: 358-9-8594-869

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Italy (Comitato dei Cittadini per i Diritti Umani ONLUS â€” CCDU) Viale Monza 1 20125 Milano, Italy & NBJM JOGP!DDEV PSH

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Russia Borisa Galushkina #19A 129301, Moscow Russia CIS Phone: (495) 540-1599 & NBJM DDIS!H UFMFDPN SV

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Japan 2-11-7-7F Kitaotsuka Toshima-ku Tokyo 170-0004, Japan Phone/Fax: 81 3 3576 1741 E-mail: DDISKBQBO!CQPTU QMBMB PS KQ

Citizens Commission on Human Rights South Africa P.O. Box 710 Johannesburg 2000 Republic of South Africa Phone: 011 27 11 624 3538 & NBJM TV[FUUF!DDIS DP [B

CCHR Latvia

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Spain (ComisiÃ³n de Ciudadanos por los Derechos Humanosâ€”CCDH) c/Maestro Arbos No 5 â€“ 4 Oficina 29 28045 Madrid, Spain Phone: 34-91-527-35-08 E-mail: BENJOJTUSBUJPO!DDEI FT

CCHR Austria Citizens Commission on Human Rights Austria (BÃ¼rgerkommission fÃ¼r Menschenrechte Ã–sterreich) Postfach 130 A-1072 Wien, Austria Phone: 43-1-877-02-23 & NBJM JOGP!DDIS BU

CCHR Belgium Citizens Commission on Human Rights Belgium (Belgisch comite voor de rechten van de mens) Postbus 338 2800 Mechelen 3, Belgium & NBJM JOGP!DDIS EF

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CCHR France Citizens Commission on Human Rights France (Commission des Citoyens pour les Droits de lâ€™Hommeâ€”CCDH) BP 10076 75561 Paris Cedex 12 , France Phone: 33 1 40 01 09 70 Fax: 33 1 40 01 05 20 & NBJM DDEI!XBOBEPP GS

CCHR Germany Citizens Commission on Human Rights Germany (Kommission fÃ¼r VerstÃ¶Ã&#x;e der Psychiatrie gegen Menschenrechte e.V.â€”KVPM) AmalienstraÃ&#x;e 49a 80799 MÃ¼nchen, Germany Phone: 49 89 273 0354 Fax: 49 89 28 98 6704 & NBJM LWQN!HNY EF

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Latvia Dzelzavas 80-48 Riga, Latvia 1082 Phone: 371-758-3940 & NBJM DDIS MBUWJB!JOCPY MW

CCHR Mexico Citizens Commission on Human Rights Mexico (ComisiÃ³n de Ciudadanos por los Derechos Humanosâ€”CCDH) Cordobanes 47, San Jose Insurgents MÃ©xico 03900 D.F. Phone: 55-8596-5030 E-mail: QSPUFHFMBTBMVENFOUBM!ZBIPP DPN

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Canada 27 Carlton St., Suite 304 Toronto, Ontario M5B 1L2 Canada Phone: 1-416-971-8555 E-mail: PGGJDFNBOBHFS!PO BJCO DPN

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Holland Postbus 36000 1020 MA, Amsterdam Holland Phone/Fax: 3120-4942510 & NBJM JOGP!ODSN OM

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Colombia P.O. Box 359339 Bogota, Colombia Phone: 57-1-251-0377 & NBJM DDEIDPM!IPUNBJM DPN

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Hungary Pf. 182 1461 Budapest, Hungary Phone: 36 1 342 6355 Fax: 36 1 344 4724 & NBJM JOGP!DDIS IV

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Israel P.O. Box 37020 61369 Tel Aviv, Israel Phone: 972 3 5660699 Fax: 972 3 5663750 & NBJM DDIS@JTS!OFUWJTJPO OFU JM

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Norway (Medborgernes menneskerettighets-kommisjon, MMK) Postboks 308 4803 Arendal, Norway Phone: 47 40468626 & NBJM NNLOPSHF!POMJOF OP

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Denmark (Medborgernes Menneskerettighedskommissionâ€”MMK) Faksingevej 9A 2700 BrÃ¸nshÃ¸j, Denmark Phone: 45 39 62 90 39 & NBJM JOGP!NNL JOGP

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Greece P.O. Box 31268 Athens 47, Postal Code 10-035 Athens, Greece Phone: 210-3604895

CCHR Holland

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Nepal P.O. Box 1679 Kathmandu, Nepal Phone: 977-1-448-6053 & NBJM OFQBMDDIS!IPUNBJM DPN

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CCHR Switzerland Citizens Commission on Human Rights Lausanne (Commission des Citoyens pour les droits de lâ€™Hommeâ€” CCDH) Case postale 5773 1002 Lausanne, Switzerland Phone: 41 21 646 6226 & NBJM DDISMBV!EQMBOFU DI

CCHR Taiwan Citizens Commission on Human Rights Taiwan Taichung P.O. Box 36-127 Taiwan, R.O.C. Phone: 42-471-2072 E-mail: UBP MBOOB!ZBIPP DPN UX

CCHR United Kingdom Citizens Commission on Human Rights United Kingdom P.O. Box 188 East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 4RB, United Kingdom Phone: 44 1342 31 3926 Fax: 44 1342 32 5559 & NBJM JOGP!DDIS PSH VL

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