CCHR Int

This week's guest is Maria Bradshaw who lost her only child to SSRI antidepressant induced suicide in 2008. She turned her personal tragedy into a crusade to help other parents on the dangers of antidepressant drugs and is founder of CASPER - Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research. She was worked closely with CCHR New Zealand ever since the tragic event and was the recipient of CCHR's Human Rights Award 2012 for her work in raising awareness on the dangers of child drugging.

Samantha became a foster child at the age of 14 and was shuffled through many foster homes and shelters. She was motivated to do something about the abuse she had experienced and earned her Master's Degree as a Social Worker. Now she works as an advocate for children in the New Jersey Department of Children and Families. This week, Samantha Broderick talks about her journey through the foster care system and what she's doing now to help improve it.

Barbara Bond was told that her son had a learning disability and needed to take a psychiatric drug. He took it 8 months and suffered horrible headaches, insomnia and zombie-like depression. She decided that was enough and got him off the drug. This week, Barbara will talk about the public awareness campaign she started to educate others about this problem of labeling and drugging of children and the coercion that takes place in schools.

According to a recent data from IMS Health, 1 in 4 American adults are taking psychiatric drugs. These drugs have well-documented side effects such as suicidal ideation, heart attack and stroke. This week's guest is Chris Jackson, a mother who is fighting to hold psychiatrists accountable for the death of her son from psychiatric drugs.

While medicine's scientific procedures are verifiable, psychiatry lacks any systematic approach to mental health. Their treatments are subjective and dangerous, and sometimes fatal. This week's guest is Debbie Santucci, who has not only worked within the psychiatric system, but also has her own experience on psychiatric drugs.

There have been 15 drug regulatory agency warnings and 18 studies in eight countries on antidepressant induced birth defects, including pulmonary hypertension, heart defects, spontaneous abortion tremors, and many others. This week's guest is attorney Aimee Robert who will discuss these very serious side effects.

The Mad Pride Movement developed in the last 10 years by a group of psychiatric survivors as a successor to the mental patients' liberation movement. This week's guest is Dr. Seth Farber who has dedicated his decades of professional life to ending the suffering caused to so many by the failures of the psychiatric industry.

He is the founder of the Center for Humane Psychiatry and is in private practice as a psychotherapist, and received his Doctorate of Education in Pastoral Community Counseling from Argosy University of Sarasota, Florida. This week's guest is Dan Edmunds, who will discuss alternatives to dangerous psychiatric drugs.

When her son was born prematurely, he had numerous health and development problems. He's now 7 years old. This week's guest, Jennifer Giustra-Kozek, a Licensed Professional Counselor in practice in Connecticut, has begun on a program of natural healing with him and since starting about a year and a half ago, he is doing great, without the use of dangerous psychiatric drugs.

Psychiatry and psychology have consistently asserted that people should be "salvaged" from the chains of religious upbringing and moral restraint. However, studies show positive moral and emotional benefits for those with religious faith. Churches and parishioners taking back control of their religions from psychiatry and psychology will accomplish the return to a morally and spiritually strong society. This week's guest is Rev. Daniel Blair who discusses how to stand firm against such psychiatric and psychological influences.