CCHR International is pleased to announce the first article in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O’Meara, “Psychiatric Drugs and War: A Suicide Mission,” exploring the epidemic of suicides in the military and the correlation to dramatic increases in psychiatric drug prescriptions to treat the emotional scars of battle.<\/p>\n
In this first article, O’Meara examines the statistics relating to psychiatric drug use and military suicides, including:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The 150% increase in military suicides from 2001 to 2009 and the 76 percent increase in psychiatric drug prescriptions over the same time period.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Department of Defense admission that nearly one-third of suicides in the military occurred among those who had never seen combat duty.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The mass prescribing of Seroquel to troops, a powerful antipsychotic drug approved by the FDA for “schizophrenia” and “bipolar disorder,” and how in just the last year, the military wrote more than fifty-four thousand Seroquel prescriptions off-label \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for “disorders” not even approved by the FDA.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The FDA’s Medication Guide for Seroquel which lists “Risk of Suicidal Thoughts or Actions,” as one of Seroquel’s “serious side effects.”<\/p>\n
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