Psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants, have serious, life threatening side effects and patient’s are rarely warned about the full risks of the drugs. International drug regulatory agencies including the U.S. FDA warn that these drugs can and do cause worsening depression, mania, aggression, psychosis, depersonalization, diabetes, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. And what’s worse, these are drugs commonly being prescribed to children and even infants. CCHR has long fought for full disclosure of psychiatric drug risks, and was one of the first organization to expose the suicidal and violent inducing effects of antidepressants as far back as 1991, calling on the FDA to take action and warn the public of the documented risks. It would take the FDA 13 years to finally issue black box warnings on antidepressants causing suicidal ideation. As a free public service, CCHR has produced The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs available as a free, downloadable report on the side bar of this page.

Warning: No one should attempt to get off of psychiatric drugs without doctor supervision.

 

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Few people aren’t affected in some way by psychiatric drugs in society—be it a family member, friend or co-worker, or just from the news of another act of violence tied to psychiatric drugs. Find out more about psychiatric drugs in the videos below.

Psychiatric drug side effects

Psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants, have serious, life threatening side effects and patient’s are rarely warned about the full risks of the drugs. International drug regulatory agencies including the U.S. FDA warn that these drugs can and do cause worsening depression, mania, aggression, psychosis, depersonalization, diabetes, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, heart attack, stroke and sudden death.

 

The Psycho Pharmaceutical Industry with former Pharma Scientist

Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.

 

No More ADHD

Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical director of the Block Center, is an outspoken critic of children being diagnosed ADHD and put on drugs documented to cause tics, stunted growth, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. She describes how parents are being misinformed about the medical legitimacy of ADHD and the dangers of the drugs being prescribed to treat children. She encourages parents to have their child given a full medical examination to find underlying medical problems that are being misdiagnosed as a mental disorder.

 

Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine

For the first time the side effects of psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the FDA have been decrypted and been made available to the public in an easy to search psychiatric drug side effects database and search engine.

 

Drug Ad Parody: Tripolar Disorder

Parody: What the antidepressant drug commericals should show as these are FDA documented side effects of antidepressants.

 

The Candace Downing Story

20 million children are currently taking psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause heart attacks, strokes, mania, violence, psychosis, sudden death and suicide.

Families who were never warned of the risks and suffered tremendous loss are fighting back to help save other children’s lives.

 

Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

The trailer for CCHR’s award-winning documentary Making a Killing. Examining the controversy surrounding psychiatric drugs, the film features interviews with scores of mental health experts, patients and family members and provides consumers with vital facts. The film has been honored with a Silver Telly Award, an Accolade Award for Best of Show and two Communicator Awards of Distinction.

 

A Warning on Antidepressants for Pregnant/Nursing Women

This is the story of a mother who took an antidepressant while pregnant, and was never warned of the risks or the fact that thousands of reports of infant deaths and birth defects have been reported to the FDA for pregnant and nursing mothers taking psychiatric drugs.

 

Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence — teaser

Is there a link between the rise of senseless violence and school shootings in society and psychiatric drugs? Watch this trailer for CCHR’s 11-minute documentary, Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence

 

1991 FDA Hearing with Testimony

As far back as 1991 CCHR was exposing the fact that antidepressants can cause suicide and violence. It would take 13 years for the FDA to finally admit this was true, and issued the agencies strongest warning, the “black box”, in 2004.

May 30, 1991:”Prozac (fluoxetine) had the highest number of adverse event reports submitted to the FDA National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System database. The database dates back to 1969.”
Alan Gelberg, Acting Chief, Surveillance and Data Processing Branch, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).

September 20, 1991:
The Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing