         Uniting together in a heated discussion on the Missouri vote, the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights denounced “Putting Kids First” (Proposition 1) as an utter deception – a campaign aimed only at making money out of drugging children. Infuriated that Proposition 1 was voted into existence, CCHR initiated a plan the day after elections during a seminar on human rights to make known how it was pushed by mental health agencies into existence.
         According to Proposition 1, a fund will be generated whereby a sales tax increase of 1 cent on every $4 of sales in St. Louis County will be paid to non-profit agencies that provide mental health and substance abuse services to children aged 19 and younger. However, CCHR reports that much of the money will be used to hook children on addictive and abusive psychiatric drugs.
         The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog and human rights advocacy group, announced that the financial profit made from psychiatric drugs is now a $330 billion a year industry, without producing one single cure.
         Psychiatrists claim that Proposition 1 is needed because they are not getting enough funding for mental health and substance-abuse services for youth. Yet, the budget for the Missouri Department of Mental Health in the last six years alone has jumped 170%, to a figure of more than $1.1 billion. “And there has been no result!” exclaimed Moritz Farbstein of CCHR in St. Louis.
         Since 2003, the Drug Enforcement Agency has reported more than 60 international drug regulatory warnings about the risks inherent in taking psychotropic drugs. Such risks include antidepressants being capable of causing suicide and hostility and stimulants prescribed to children may put them at risk of heart problems, stroke and even death.
         For decades, CCHR has fought to expose the dangers and fraud of the psycho-pharmaceutical industry despite the objections of vested interests that profit from keeping the truth concealed. For more information on the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, go to www.cchrstl.org.