Human Rights Group Commends Piedmont Regional Council for Landmark Legislation

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
and the Torino, Italy chapter of the group commended the Regional
Council of Piedmont this week for its unanimous passage of a new law
that protects the rights of children throughout the Northern Italy
region.

The bill is modeled after the Child Medication Safety Act, enacted
in the U.S. in 2003 in the wake of escalating, alarming reports of
parents being threatened, pressured or forced to give their children
dangerous psychiatric drugs as a condition of attending school.

CCHR worked with members of the Regional Council of Torino,
educating them on this U.S. law and the urgent need to empower parents
and protect children from potentially lethal drugs that the United
States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel in 2006
recommended be labeled with a "black box". The FDA requires such a
black box warning be included on the packaging of prescription drugs
that cause significant risk of serious or even life-threatening adverse
effects.

A compendium, published this month by CCHR International, lists and
summarizes more than 60 warnings issued by government agencies just
since the passage of this law in the U.S. These warnings put doctors on
notice that psychiatric drugs can induce violence, homicidal behavior,
suicide and death, among many other serious adverse effects.

The need to protect families from these drugs is all the more urgent
in light of the lack of science to prove that such so-called conditions
as ADHD even exist. According to Dr. Thomas Szasz,
co-founder of CCHR and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State
University of New York, Syracuse, "There is no blood or other
biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental
illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. Labeling a child as
mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a
psychiatric drug is poisoning and punishment, not treatment."

Numerous other psychiatrists, interviewed in a documentary produced last year by CCHR, admit on film that Dr. Szasz's findings are true. Copies of this documentary are available online through the group's web site.

The headquarters of CCHR International in Los Angeles, California is the home of the Psychiatry: an Industry of Death
museum, which features this and 13 other documentaries with statements
from scores of health professionals, academics, legal and human rights
experts, and victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from
electroshock and involuntary commitment to political torture,
psychosurgery and the devastating effects of psychotropic drugs.

Last year, to ensure legislators, health professionals, parents,
teachers and the general public around the world can gain access the
truth about psychiatry, the Industry of Death was produced as
a traveling exhibit and is now touring on five continents. Through
this, CCHR members have been able to reach lawmakers in countries
around the world, to educate them on the need to protect their
constituents from harmful psychiatric practices.

According to CCHR:

"Prescribing psychiatric drugs to children is a multi-billion
dollar-a-year industry that permanently damages children. While the
U.S. federal government spends nearly $1 billion a month fighting the
war on drugs, we ignore the worsening problem of legally prescribed
psychotropic drugs.

"The drugs prescribed for so-called learning disorders
are completely different from routine medications that medical doctors
prescribe for colds or fevers. Psychiatric drugs are addictive and
mind-altering substances.

"The stimulants prescribed for ADHD are listed as controlled
substances under Schedule II of the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic
Substances. Why? They constitute a substantial risk to public health,
have little to moderate therapeutic usefulness and can be potentially
addictive.

"The main stimulant used for ADHD is an amphetamine-like drug,
which purportedly acts as a tranquilizer in children. According to the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration it is more potent than cocaine."

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, public
benefit organization co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology
and Dr. Thomas Szasz. For more information visit the CCHR web site at www.cchr.org.