Exhibit Exposes Dangers Of Psychiatric Drugging Of Children

An Industry of Death in downtown Sacramento and warned families about the dangers of psychiatric drugging of children. Sacramento chapter to raise public awareness of psychiatric abuses...According to Renee Carlander, Executive Director for the Sacramento Chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the lives of more and more children are being endangered by psychiatric drugs. Based on the FDA's Adverse Drug Reactions reports, a child commits suicide attributed to psychiatric drugs every week. Every week, a child goes into a coma because of psychiatric drugs. Every month 4 children die from psychiatric drug side effects, Carlander said. Despite these dangers, a 2009 issue of Health Affairs reported that prescriptions of psychiatric drugs for American children increased by 50 percent from 1996 to 2006. In 2006 alone, a total of $8.9 billion was spent treating children 0 to 17 years old for mental disorders per a report from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. People need to know the harm that psychiatric drugs can do to their children. That's why Karina and her family want their story known, said Carlander. That story started when Karina was an 11 year old student at a Citrus Heights school. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and encouraged her to get her daughter tested...He convinced Patsy that she needed to put her daughter on a powerful narcotic...Even the American Psychiatric Association admits in its Diagnostic Statistical Manual-IV that there are ...no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. After starting to take the prescribed drug, Karina began to exhibit erratic behavior, including pulling her hair out to a point of damage. Startled and concerned, Patsy took Karina back to the doctor complaining that something was wrong. The psychiatrist diagnosed her with another psychiatric condition called trichotillomania (hair pulling) and prescribed another drug to medicate her. Karina's health continued to deteriorate to a point of attempting suicide. Before these drugs, Karina had never exhibited this kind of behavior and the desire to commit suicide did not occur until after taking them. It was only later that Patsy learned that many psychiatric drugs contain FDA mandated Black Box warnings for dangerous side effects including aggression, hostility and suicidal ideation. She was shocked because at no point did anyone make an effort to explain these dangers. Once she learned the facts, Patsy was able to get her child off all medications and is thankful that, as she puts it, she got her daughter back. Public are invited to tour the free exhibit which is open from October 8th through October 20th at 429 J Street in downtown Sacramento. In addition to the in-depth section on the drugging of children, there are documentaries and displays revealing the results of 40 years of investigation into psychiatry and its treatments. Tours are available Monday through Friday from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm, Saturdays from 11:00 to 5:00 and Sundays from 11:00 to 3:00.