Official CCHR International— Non-profit Mental Health Industry Watchdog that has helped enact 190 laws protecting patients from abuse.
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Decades before Britain’s new Channel 4 documentary, "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗗𝗛𝗗 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵?" began questioning the validity of the ADHD diagnosis, in the early 1990s neurologist Fred Baughman was publicly testifying before governments that ADHD was “a total, 100% fraud.”
THE ADHD CHECKLIST
• Runs or climbs excessively in situations when it is not appropriate
• Is often on the go
• Acts as if driven by a motor
• Blurts out answers
• Is easily distracted
• Loses pencils or toys
• Often doesn't seem to listen
• Often leaves his or her seat despite being told to sit still
To be perfectly clear — these are the checklist items for diagnosing a child with ADHD; a list of behaviors cited in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). There are no blood tests, brain scans, chemical imbalance tests, X-rays or "genetic" markers to prove any child has a mental disorder requiring drugs to "treat" it.
Moreover, the drugs prescribed to treat ADHD such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, Vyvanse carry a black box warning for being addictive. These drugs are classified as Schedule II substances which have a high potential for abuse and can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence, in the same class of drugs as Oxycontin and Fentanyl.
“We do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there is no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction.”
— National Institute of Health (NIH) Consensus Statement
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"Eli Lilly’s worst nightmare." — That’s what the Indianapolis Star called trial lawyer Andy Vickery.
Even though his most famous victory was the landmark Donald Schell case against Paxil — where a jury awarded $6.4 million (the first verdict holding a drug company liable for antidepressant-induced murder-suicide) — Vickery was a relentless force against Lilly’s Prozac for years, filing dozens of cases.
His work helped lead to the FDA’s 2004 Black Box warning on suicide.
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About ECT—Constitutional attorney Jonathan Emord has defeated the FDA in federal court more times than any other attorney in American history. Many believe electroshock (ECT) is a barbaric outdated practice from the past that's no longer used — but it's still actively performed today, including on children and adolescents and wholeheartedly supported by psychiatry:
“Substantial scientific evidence shows that ECT is an effective, safe, and well-tolerated treatment... denying ECT in life-threatening situations, including in children and adolescents or in patients who lack decision-making capacity, would be unethical.” — Joint statement by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), World Psychiatric Association (WPA), European Psychiatric Association (EPA), and the Global Expert Task Force on ECT (The Lancet Psychiatry, March 2026)
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Antidepressant Withdrawal—Litigation in the 2000s revealed internal Paxil data showing 50–80% of users experienced significant withdrawal leading to updated FDA warnings. GSK ultimately paid $1 billion in settlements related to withdrawal effects & birth defects—yet the psychiatric industry continues to downplays these risks
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Here are interviews with psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association in 2006. Now 20 years later they still have no confirmatory tests for any mental disorder, they still play trial and error with drugs and still have no idea if the drugs will "work" or not.
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Dr. Thomas Szasz, Lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, "Psychiatrists are getting further and further away from this human to human touch...It's not science. It's politics and economics. Behavior control. It is not science. It is not medicine"
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Through Freedom of Information Act requests to 32 states, data show that 270,196 children aged 0–5 were prescribed psychiatric drugs under Medicaid alone — this figure does not include children covered by private insurance cchrint.org/massdrugging-of-…
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In 32 states alone, that safety net spent $1.78 billion prescribing psychiatric “medications” to nearly three million children in a single year. 270,000 of those children were under the age of five...
Read: drmcfillin.substack.com/p/we…
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A psychiatrist explains what's wrong with psychiatry. i.e. no science, no cures, severe drug side effects...
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Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry's Deadly Side Effects—Watch here cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
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In 2011 Ron Paul recognized the dangers of mental health screening of school children & introduced the Parental Consent Act to block such programs, warning they’d label kids on vague criteria and feed them into pharma pipelines.
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ECT: The only mode of “regulation” for the use of electroshock in the United States is the FDA, which regulates the device. The FDA has never required any clinical trials proving safety or efficacy of the treatment. cchrint.org/10-facts-about-e…
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As the American Psychiatric Association met in LA, CCHR and a diverse coalition rallied outside, demanding an end to psychiatric coercion and abuse, including forced treatment, child restraint deaths and no oversight despite $329B in funding #HumanRights tinyurl.com/2jpb5znw
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“It’s not science. It’s politics and economics. That’s what psychiatry is: politics and economics. Behavior control.
It is not science, it is not medicine.” —Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry
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A 1998 NIH conference concluded that ADHD lacked scientific or medical validity—a fact still true 28 years later and long known by the psycho-pharmaceutical industry.
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"We see antidepressant withdrawal symptoms that can be so severe, that patients feel held hostage to the antidepressant." — Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Psychiatrist, Clinical Instructor, Author of Prozac Backlash
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Dr. Dainius Pūras, a UN Special Rapporteur, called for a revolution to “end decades of neglect, abuse, and violence,” in the mental health industry which relies on a failed biomedical model of disease. Read the Declaration that is desparately needed— cchrint.org/about-us/declara…
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Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association—
"Dr. Szasz was one of those rare individuals who could not be silenced when liberty was threatened.” — Ron Paul
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Worth watching—the reality of Antidepressant withdrawal —which is always dismissed, brushed off, ignored by the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry: Antidepressant Withdrawal Australia 2025 - Lived Experience 8 mins piped.video/watch?v=HnG6om8u…
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Psychiatrists now admit that psychiatry's biological model of 'diagnosis', such as the recently debunked 'chemical imbalance theory' (used to justify drugging millions for decades) is unscientific. But they waited until now. Collin Ross has been exposing this for decades.
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"I would like to remind doctors that the oath to 'do no harm' was meant for their patients, not the pharmaceutical industry." — Dr. Toby Watson, Psychologist
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This is the black box warning the FDA now requires on ADHD drugs (prescribed to millions of kids). This is for Ritalin but all ADHD drugs now require the warning, which is not on the prescription bottle, but the huge print-out with ridiculously small writing.
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Schedule II drugs are those that have a high potential for abuse and can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence which is why they are monitored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ADHD drugs are schedule ll...
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In a 1991 FDA hearing, heavily pharma-funded committee members listened to hours of public testimony as well as from academics citing SSRI antidepressant-induced suicidality and then voted not to warn the public about this risk... See 🧵below in comments
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Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry, known as psychiatry's most ardent critic, was a Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and co-founder of CCHR.
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Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and co-founder of CCHR cchrint.org/about-us/co-foun…
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Back in 1991 the FDA held a hearing into the first SSRI (Prozac) causing suicidal ideation & did nothing. This is CCHR’s footage of that hearing. It took the FDA another 13 years to issue the black box on all SSRIs. Note the 1991 FDA panels pharma conflicts towards end of video
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Psychiatry's billing bible - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) cchrint.org/issues/dsm-billi…
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"Dr. Szasz was one of those rare individuals who could not be silenced when liberty was threatened."
—Ron Paul
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Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and psychiatry's most ardent and respected critic.
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A man visits several psychiatrists complaining of the same symptoms... this is what happened #psychiatricdiagnosing
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