INTRODUCTION Betraying Our Children

Newspaper articles often trumpet the “wonders” of modern day psycho-pharmaceutical research for the treatment of childhood learning and emotional “problems” and “disabilities.”

They sound reasonable. They sound convincing—science again conquers our material universe for the benefit of mankind. Who could possibly argue with making a normal life possible for those in trouble?

Daniel’s parents would. And so would Cory’s. They would argue vehemently and passionately. And with an estimated 17 million school children worldwide said to have a mental disorder that requires them to be chemically restrained by powerful mind-altering psychiatric drugs, they are far from alone.

Who are Daniel and Cory and why do their parents disagree? They are children who are not only unable to lead normal lives because of so-called “miracle” drugs; they are tragically no longer with us at all, because of those drugs.

I invite you to analyze the above illustration more closely from the point of view of children, because the reality and the labels may not reflect the same thing when it comes to psychiatry’s “drugs of the moment.”

Reflect on several of the words and how they are used. Take “normal,” for example. You probably have your own idea of what a normal sort of life is. Does it involve the consumption of addictive, mind-altering and potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs? Does it involve a total reliance on such drugs to remain normal?

What about the word “medications?” Does it ease your mind by conjuring up images of some benign cough syrup prescribed by a kindly family doctor? Nothing could be further from the truth. A psychiatric medication is a very powerful addictive drug.

Then there is the term “scientific,” often used by psychiatry to add legitimacy to its pronouncements. According to the World Book Dictionary, the word implies “systematic; accurate; exact.” Those characteristics have nothing to do with psychiatry or, for that matter, its cousin, psychology.

Examples of other words which suffer at their hands are “values,” “right,” “wrong,” “safe,” even “education.”

This is the subtle propaganda of the psychiatrist and psychologist at work—the redefinition of words. Somehow in their hands, things just seem to get all twisted about and eventually fall apart.

The trouble is that their worldwide propaganda on the subject of children and education has thoroughly duped well-meaning parents, teachers and politicians alike, that “normal”— there’s that word again—childhood behavior is no longer normal; that it is a mental illness. And further, that only by continuous, heavy drugging from a very early age, can the “afflicted” child possibly make it through life’s worst.

Who would have thought 40 years ago that we could have come to this? Nevertheless we are here, and the harsh reality is that because of it, precious young lives all over the world are at serious risk, permanently damaged, even lost to us.

Contrary to psychiatric opinion, children are not “experimental animals,” they are human beings who have every right to expect protection, care, love and the chance to reach their full potential in life. They will only be denied this from within the verbal and chemical straitjackets that are psychiatry’s labels and drugs.

We are publishing this report, Child Drugging—Psychiatry Destroying Lives , to expose the lies and propaganda at work, to provide a perspective and information not made readily available to parents and others concerned, and most importantly to help bring sanity and control back to the care and nurturing of our children.

Children are our future.

There is nothing less at stake here than our very future itself.

Sincerely,

Jan Eastgate, President
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

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