Up Close and Personal
The monthly Interview with CTM Founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: Live 8, The G8 summit, London Olympics 2012, the London bombings: it's been quite a month. All that, and the EU vitamin ban too.
PD: And how do you imagine they will enforce it?
ECLUB: With the Pharma-Gestapo? You don't seem very disappointed.
PD: I'm not. The whole thing's a shambles. As usual, with all things EU, the left hand does not know what the right is doing (probably all the nose-candy getting snorted in its toilets (see article)). The Alliance for Natural Health, which challenged the vitamin and herbal directives, has a summary of where things stand at the moment.
ECLUB: So what's going to happen?
PD: Rumours abound. Some say vitamins will still be allowed since they occur naturally in foods. Others that the directives have made a mockery of the EU, are unenforceable, and have only served to increase everyone's detestation of Brussels. Certainly since La Chirac insulted the British diet and lost Paris's bid for the Olympics (ha!), as well as his own constitutional referendum, many more people have woken up to this and, since the bombings, renewed calls, urged by the EU, for the hated ID cards. In this EClub, we have several articles devoted to this and the supplements issue.
ECLUB: It's a global attack on our heath freedoms, isn't it?
PD: Yes. The drug industry wants to be captain of all. Those reading this can join their regional alliances and prepare for battle. The good guys are as follows: New Zealand Health Trust, Alliance for Health Freedom (Australia), Eve Hillary (Australia), Rath Foundation (Europe and the world), Alliance for Natural Health (UK and the world), International Advocates for Health Freedom (USA and Canada).
ECLUB: What else?
PD: Staying with the EU for a sec, it looks like Blair et al will try to implement key provisions of the EU constitution on Britain anyway. Most of the institutions the constitution would have ratified are up and running already: The European space program, the criminal code, the European Defence Agency, the common asylum policy, autonomous politico-military command structures, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to name but a few. Any reading this who don't yet know of the dangers to their way of life and freedoms, now is the time to get involved and busy. We'll explain how.
ECLUB: You're so martial.
PD: Stand at ease, Brian.
ECLUB: What else?
PD: A new society planned where everyone will be able to take pleasure drugs to make them forget, or tune into the moods of their friends when they go out for the evening.
ECLUB: No-one saw that coming.
PD: On the positive side, more research showing the benefits of eating brazil nuts to ward off cancer. Charles Hendry MP too gets vocal on the drugging of our children.
ECLUB: And Australia and New Zealand?
PD: You're a reminding godsend, Brian. Tickets are now on sale for my forthcoming Attitude Tour, taking in exotic locales Down Under, how to have a good life, how to tune yourself mentally to the peak performance of a Lamborghini Diablo, banish depression, get kitted for your personal mission. The new book, The Little Book of Attitude, will be available along with the others at the talks. Samantha and I are excited already. The Antipodean spirit, the sweeping vista of the Blue Mountains, the serenity of Taupo, the parks of Christchurch, the surf of Glenelg, Perth's passion, Melbourne's mellow, Sydney's splendour and, of course, the Brisbane Sheraton.
ECLUB: Rich desserts - you?'
PD: Don't get carried away, Brian, it's only a piece of cheesecake.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.
PD: Mud pie in your eye, mate.

IT'S FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR EU CONSTITUTION, EVEN AFTER 'NO' VOTES: You may have got the impression that the European constitution was dead - that the French had felled it, and the Dutch had pounded a stake through its heart. If so, think again.

ID CARDS, NO THANKS:In the wake of the London bombings, fresh calls are heard for biometric ID cards in order to prevent terrorism, illegal immigration, even benefit fraud. Discover why this is a dangerous move in the wrong direction, even if you have done nothing wrong.

Bid to Lift EU Ban on Vitamins Fails
by Sean Poulter

(FOR THE LATEST ON THE NEW LEGISLATION)
A challenge to the European ban on hundreds of natural health supplements failed yesterday. In a surprise decision the European Court of Justice upheld a controversial directive imposing tight controls on sales of minerals, nutrients and some vitamins.

The judges went against the advice of the Court's own Advocate General who had concluded the Food Supplements Directive was legally invalid and said it should be annulled. The directive, which comes into force next month, threatens the sale of 300 nutrients, which are used in various combinations in around 5,000 health products.

It will impose a maximum dose level per tablet on a range of vitamins, including vitamin C, although no decision has been made on what this will be….

Actress Jenny Seagrove [who has campaigned against the directive] said: "This is a complete betrayal. This is just lunacy. People depend on these things. If they are taken away, you are talking about individuals suffering a real deterioration in their health, well-being and quality of life. The ridiculous thing is that this directive has nothing to do with safety, that is a complete smoke-screen. This is about a bureaucratic attempt to harmonise regulations across the EU."

And Guess Who's Going to Benefit?
by Geoffrey Lean

Nothing epitomizes more clearly the increasingly arrogant nature of the European Union than its authoritarian ban on mineral and vitamin pills. In less than three weeks - by dictate of a European Commission directive - thousands of popular, harmless, natural medicines are due to be swept from the shelves.

The directive - upheld by the European Court of Justice yesterday - is possibly the most outrageous legislation yet to come out of Brussels. Touted as a way of protecting people's health, it seems designed only to benefit big drug firms.

With the ban will come a topsy- turvy world where adult Britons will be unable to buy their long tried and tested supplements from health food stores, while tobacconists will go on selling cigarettes to teenagers.

The ruling follows a vast campaign against the ban. More than 300 doctors wrote to the Prime Minister to oppose it, while a million Britons signed a petition against it. Some 20 million Britons take supplements every day. Most swear that they keep them healthier. And there is good evidence that they do.

Levels of minerals and vitamins in modern diets are dropping as intensive agriculture increasingly leeches them from the soil and people eat more processed food. Research shows that not eating enough of them raises the danger of cancer and heart disease. A recent study by the American Medical Association shows that some of the pills do offer protection against these.

But the drug companies prefer to draw attention to the supplements' alleged hazards.

Though some evidence suggest some alternative medicines may have harmful effect if taken in ridiculously high doses, research suggests certain side-effects of the drug companies' products are the fourth biggest cause of death in the US.

Yet, by attacking the alternatives, the ban seems designed to benefit the drug companies. And the way in which it is enforced only heightens the suspicion.

The directive inhibits the sale of vitamins and minerals unless they are on an 'approved list'. Those banned, says the Alliance for Natural Health, are mainly the more sophisticated ones used by alternative medical practitioners. Those allowed are, by and large, crude versions used by the big pharmaceutical companies in their own vitamin and mineral products.

Compounds like caustic soda, used to clean drains, and sodium fluoride, a pest killer, are on the permitted list while sulphur, important for the skin, and boron, valuable for healthy teeth and bones, are to be banned.

Very late in the day, Government seems to have woken up to the absurdity of all this. Cabinet Minister Peter Hain has called the ban 'unnecessary interference', and even Tony Blair objected to it in talks with other EU leaders last month. But, in truth, the Government has done much to bring it about.

It voted for the ban and it systematically removed Labour MPs sceptical about the directive from the Parliamentary committee scrutinizing it. Worse still, it joined Greece and Portugal in fighting the bid to overturn the directive.

Tony Blair therefore has a lot to do to redeem himself, but he may have an opportunity. The Alliance for Natural Health believes yesterday's judgment has left an escape route that still could be used to negate the worst effects of the directive.

The court appears to have exempted any vitamins and minerals that are normally found in the diet - a provision which could allow naturally occurring ones to escape the ban. The Commission denies this, but the Government should urgently examine and exploit whatever latitude it provides.

Otherwise we can expect increasing hostility to Europe in Britain. For people unmoved by arguments about sovereignty and the euro will surely never forgive Brussels for needlessly removing harmless supplements they have long taken to safeguard their health, just to swell the profits of pharmaceutical giants.
Daily Mail, 13th July 2005

Brussels Gives a Healthy Boost to Pharma Giants
by Christopher Booker

There was extensive media coverage last week of the European Court of Justice's ruling in favour of the Brussels directive on vitamin and mineral supplements. The choice of the 21 million people in Britain who use them will be drastically restricted when thousands of products are forced off the shelves, because it will cost between £80,000 and £250,000 for testing to allow each preparation to continue to be sold.

I have often written about this since 1994, when the directive first came into view, because it provides such a revealing case-study in how we are now governed. There is no scientific reason for the new law. Its greatest beneficiaries will be the pharmaceutical companies who have lobbied for it in Brussels, because it will drive thousands of their smaller competitors out of business. They have freely used bogus science to whip up a scare that misuse of food supplements can cause adverse reactions (albeit in only a tiny minority of users), while hiding away the fact that tens of thousands of people each year suffer much more serious, even fatal health damage from their own proprietary drugs, all licensed, at vast expense, as being safe to use.

The Brussels directive completely changes the basis on which food safety is regulated in Britain, by reversal of the burden of proof, as under Napoleonic law. In this country you may sell any food, but you face severe penalties if it proves to be damaging to health. Under the Continental system, the burden of proof lies with the seller. You may only sell what you are explicitly permitted to sell. Only the 112 products on the directive's so-called "positive list" will therefore be legal.

Finally, the ECJ last week broke with its established practice and overruled the opinion of its own Advocate-General, who had supported those complaining that the directive breached European law. This was because the ECJ is less a judicial than a political body. Its judges are political appointees and many would not be qualified to sit as judges in their own country. Their primary role is to support the Commission. And if the Commission bows to the lobbying of the pharmaceutical industry and produces a directive which will shut down smaller competitors and deprive millions of Europeans of the right to take the vitamin and mineral products they find beneficial, then the ECJ knows where its duty lies.
The Sunday Telegraph, 17th July 2005

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Europeanisation of the British Army
is Coming on the Double
by Christopher Booker

In what must rank as one of the most bizarre events in the history of British defence policy, a junior minister recently admitted that the cost of a single vehicles-and-weapons project for the British Army has soared in less than a year from £6 billion to £14 billion, making it by far the most costly military equipment programme ever planned.

On a day when the front-bench defence teams were in Portsmouth for the Trafalgar review, only two MPs were present in Westminster Hall: Don Touhig, the minister, and Ann Winterton, the Tory MP who initiated the debate.

What made this even more astonishing is that the project itself, planned as part of the EU's rush to establish its own integrated armed forces, independent of Nato, rules out any future British military partnership with the US, thus spelling an end to the Anglo-American "special relationship".

The subject raised by Ann Winterton was the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES), the Ministry of Defence's plan to equip the British Army with a new generation of satellite-coordinated vehicles and weapons systems.

Although planning for this project has been shrouded in secrecy, the aim of FRES - a cut-price version of the Future Combat System being developed for the US Army - is to equip the British Army to take part in the EU's 60,000-strong "rapid reaction force".

Planning for this is being co-ordinated by the new European Defence Agency (EDA), set up in Brussels in January under a former MoD civil servant, Nick Witney. It was also for this purpose that the Government last year announced the restructuring of the Army, involving the abolition or merger of 19 historic regiments.

On June 28, Mr Touhig dropped into his reply to Ann Winterton the admission that FRES will now involve the purchase of 3,500 vehicles at a cost of £14 billion (£4 million per vehicle). He did not add that this represents a massive escalation of the plan announced last year to spend £6 billion on 900 vehicles.

The procurement cost now therefore equates to £600 for every taxpayer in the country. Furthermore the total "lifetime cost" of the original 900 vehicles, over 30 years, was given last year as £49 billion. When I asked the MoD last week for the "lifetime cost" of the 3,500 vehicles now proposed (which pro rata should be over £100 billion) it failed to reply.

Mr Touhig also assured Ann Winterton that FRES would not rely on Galileo, the satellite system planned by the EU as a rival to the US's GPS. Galileo, he insisted, is only intended for civilian use. His officials clearly did not tell him that FRES must be built to a "European standard", which will ensure that it must rely on EU satellites rather than GPS and other US systems.

This will make it impossible for FRES-equipped forces to operate alongside US forces in a battle zone, since each system will identify the units that are not integrated with it as potential enemies.

The speed at which Britain is now being sucked into the new "European defence identity" is breathtaking. In another recent series of parliamentary questions, Ann Winterton eventually forced the MoD to come clean about another £166 million Army contract, for light multi-purpose vehicles to replace its Land Rovers and Saxons.

The MoD originally stated that this was to be built by British Aerospace (the division which was formerly Alvis). But further questioning revealed that these 401 "Panthers" are in fact to be purchased, all but the roof, from an Italian firm Iveco, at £413,000 each, twice the cost of a Rolls Royce and four times that of the equivalent US Humvee.

This follows the MoD's remarkable but almost unreported announcement last November that the Army's biggest ever trucks order, worth £1.6 billion, was going to Man-Nutzfahrzeuge in Germany.

To the dismay of military experts, this was in preference to bids from two US-British consortia offering trucks of superior performance - which would also thus have retained thousands of British jobs - because EU defence procurement policy now insists that contracts with wholly "European" firms should be preferred to those with a US component.

If the £20 billion we are shelling out for the useless Eurofighter, thanks to Michael Heseltine back in 1986, seems a high price to pay for EU defence integration, we can now see this was only the start of it. What is even more startling is the lengths to which our Government will go to hide it from view.

Her Majesty's Ship

There was unhappiness recently when, in the Solent, the Queen had to review the fleet from a "bus shelter" perched on top of the icebreaker Endurance. To provide her with a new Royal Yacht would have cost £60 million. This equates to two days' worth of Britain's £11.5-billion-a-year payments into the EU budget.
Sunday Telegraph, 10th July 2005

MEP Loos Covered in Coke

Traces of cocaine have been found in 41 of 46 toilets used by MEPs in the European Parliament. Levels in some loos were so high they would have been detected by police sniffer dogs, one expert claims.

The results of the swabs taken from surfaces in toilets throughout the Brussels HQ - and analysed for a German TV show - suggests that drug use is regular. The concentration in one toilet showed the drug was taken just before the sample.

A Parliament spokesman said: "We cannot take this very seriously because we don't know how the samples were taken or what happened to them. It seems they just wished to provoke news."
Irish Sun, 16th July 2005

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'Pleasure Drugs' Boom on the Way, Says Think-Tank
by Roger Highfield

Mind-altering drugs could be as common as coffee within a couple of decades to boost performance at school and at work, to 'unlearn' addiction and to erase memories of distressing events such as terrorist attack, according to a British government think-tank.

Society may end up realizing Aldous Huxley's vision of a Brave New World in which people take a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, Soma - though the report shies away from discussing whether future governments will be tempted to encourage the use of "happy pills" for social control.

The Foresight think-tank points out that psychoactive substances have been part of society for thousands of years. It heralds the development of new recreational drugs, some of which may be less harmful than those already costing society around 20bn euros annually, mostly due to crime.

"We have not reached a ceiling for recreational drug use," it said. "Psychoactive drug use may spread more across the life course and may become more common than is currently evident in middle-aged or even older age groups."

One of the team that produced the report 'Drugs Futures 2025?', Professor Gerry Simpson of Imperial College London, said: "If there is such a thing as Huxley's Soma, that really does raise crucial questions for governments around the world about how legitimately to regulate such a substance."

David King, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief scientific advisor, who led the think-tank, said: "We are on the verge of developments that could move us into a world where we could take a drug to help us think faster, relax, sleep more efficiently or even subtly alter our mood to match that of our friends."

In addition to drugs that boost pleasure and sexual performance, the report raises the possibility of drugs that cause selective amnesia, for instance of a bomb attack, after the discovery that substances called beta blockers can reduce memories of stressful situations.

But the report warns that there are potential abuses of a tool that makes people forget, "examined in a number of films such as 'Total Recall' or 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' where characters are able to forget about painful relationships."

Other possibilities would be drug-testing of children before they took exams to ensure they do not cheat with cognitive enhancers, or 'cogs'.

"In a world that is increasingly non-stop and competitive, the individual's use of such substances may move from the fringe to the norm, with cognition enhancers used as coffee is today," says the report.

One problem raised by the study is that the pharmaceutical industry might change its focus from drugs that treat mental health to cognitive enhancers, "mental cosmetics" and treatments for addiction.
Irish Independent, per The Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2005

New World Order?

At first, some of the drugs being developed by the pharmaceutical industry sound wonderful. A report published yesterday by the Prime Minister's chief medical adviser, Sir David King, says that drugs already exist, or will soon be available, to help us think more quickly, relax, remember or forget.

There may soon come a time when it will be possible to vaccinate children against addiction, or to take a drug that will counteract the effects of alcohol on the memory. Even now, there is talk of testing students for drugs before they sit their exams, so as to make sure that they have not taken cognitive enhancers to improve their performance.

It is true that human beings have been taking mind-altering substances, from wine and coffee to coca leaves, since they first walked the earth. But there is something chilling about the latest advances. The new drugs' champions say that they will produce a happy race of geniuses. Isn't it just as likely, though, that they will create the pliant zombies of Huxley's Brave New World?
Leader, Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2005

How Brazil Nuts Can Beat Cancer
by Tim Utton and Robin Yapp

A handful of Brazil nuts a day can reduce the risk of eight types of cancer by up to 76 per cent, scientists said yesterday. They are packed with the mineral selenium, which can help prevent cancer of the liver, lung, stomach, prostate, pancreas, brain, kidney and oesophagus by blocking the formation of tumours.

Selenium also fights tumours once they appear, improving the chances of survival.

Dr Margaret Rayman of the University of Surrey, told the British Association Festival of Science in Exeter that people should aim for a daily intake of around 200 micrograms (mcg) of the mineral.

That cuts risk by between 46 per cent in the case of lung cancer and 76 per cent for prostate cancer, studies have found.

A handful of Brazil nuts a day is enough. Other sources are liver, kidney and shellfish.

People also get some selenium from the soil, through crops such as wheat. However Britons get on average only 30 mcg in their diet today, half the level of the early 1970s.

Doctor Rayman says this is partly because when we joined the forerunner of the European Union, we changed from importing wheat from selenium-rich Canada to European sources, where the soil contains a lot less of the mineral.

She warned that taking more than 450 mcg of selenium a day can cause some toxic effects.

A medical conference in London heard how the spice turmeric, which helps give curries their distinctive flavour and colour, can help protect against leukaemia in children.

Scientists suspect some children are born with a predisposition to the blood cancer and that it is triggered by environmental factors. Infections, viruses, radiation and pesticides are suspected culprits

Professor Moolky Nagabhushan, of the Loyola Medical Centre in Chicago, told the conference, organised by the charity Children with Leukaemia, that studies suggest turmeric and its colouring curcumin, protect against these "triggers".
Daily Mail, September 2004

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Release date: 13th June 2005

MP SEEKS REVIEW OF TREATMENT OF HYPERACTIVITY

In calling for the review, Mr Hendry comments: "The huge explosion in the use of drugs to tackle hyperactivity shows that it is increasingly being used as the first line of attack and not the last resort. Before drugs are used, all other possible solutions should be examined first, such as diet, allergies, reactions to colourings and additives. It cannot be right, when a child has a biological condition, to pump their small bodies full of chemicals to control their behaviour."

In his letter to the Minister, Mr Hendry is calling for the most detailed study ever of children with ADHD to be put in place to gain a better understanding of the causes behind it, together with new guidance to GPs that all other treatments should be explored before prescribing drugs. Mr Hendry adds: "As MPs, we have all witnessed a huge growth in ADHD cases in our constituencies. Prescribing more and more drugs cannot be the solution to a problem that was almost unknown a few years ago."

The text of Mr Hendry's letter to the Health Minister follows:

8th June 2005

Dear Jane

You recently answered a Parliamentary Question which I had tabled on the use of Ritalin. The answer shows that the prescribing of Methylphenidate Hydrochloride has doubled in the last five years and last year a shocking 359,000 prescriptions were made.

I am profoundly concerned by these figures which show that drugs Methylphenidate Hydrochloride is increasingly being used as the first line of defence in treating hyperactivity in children, rather than as a last resort.

I am writing to ask that you should set up a full review of the way that hyperactivity in children is treated. First of all, to carry out the most detailed study ever undertaken of hyperactivity and its potential causes and treatments; and to issue new advice to GPs that all other forms of treatment should be examined before drugs are prescribed.

There is no doubt that there is a link between hyperactivity (at least in some children) and food colourings and additives. Surely, it makes sense to explore all the options in terms of dietary change, potential allergies etc before allowing drugs to be prescribed.
I would be grateful for a meeting to discuss how such a review can be taken forward.

Yours sincerely,

Charles Hendry

To: Jane Kennedy MP
Minister for Health
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London SW1

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New Bill on Mental Health 'Unethical'
by Celia Hall

The Mental Health Bill will include measures to compel people to have treatment in the community and to detain some with personality disorders before any crime has been committed, the Government said yesterday.

Its robust response to 107 recommendations from an inquiry by a scrutiny committee into the draft Bill makes it clear that the Government considers public safety to be as important as the rights of the mentally ill.

Agreeing with only about half of the recommendations from the joint Commons and Lords pre-legislative scrutiny committee, the Department of Health said: "We must state very firmly that we disagree with the committee's criticism that the Bill places too much emphasis on public safety and not enough on patient rights."

Rosie Winterton, health minister, said yesterday: "Although the majority of mental health patients pose no danger to themselves or others, the Government has a duty to protect people with serious mental health problems from harming themselves or other people. We are confident that the Bill's provisions will mean that compulsory treatment will be used only when it is essential."

The Royal College of Psychiatrists said it was disappointed with the Government's failure to adopt "many of the most important" recommendations of the committee. Dr Tony Zigmond, the vice-president, said: "It is sad that Government still fails to understand that it is unethical to force treatment on people who are well enough to make their treatment decisions."

Between 50 and 75 unlawful killings a year are carried out by people with a mental health history and who have been in and out of hospitals. Another 1,500 commit suicide.
The Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2005

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Psychiatric Watchdog Speaks Out About Tom Cruise Speaking Out; Warns About National Crisis of Child-Drugging with 'Kiddy Cocaine' and Suicide-Inducing Antidepressants;

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog group, said Tom Cruise's remarks on NBC's Today Show (Friday, June 24) represent a growing public awareness about the national crisis of children and adults being prescribed mind-altering drugs. More than 8 million children in the United States now take these drugs; millions more abuse them. Today the group released a White Paper on "Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects" that educates people about the physically and mentally damaging effects of psychotropic drugs that are often prescribed for a "chemical imbalance" medical experts say doesn't exist.

Accompanying this is a video documentary on the group's website, http://www.cchr.org, that includes prominent doctors, neurologists and psychiatrists debunking the hoax of mental disorders being physically based or the result of a chemical imbalance.

"The paper provides information that psychiatrists are not going to tell people, enabling them to make an informed choice," CCHR's international president, Jan Eastgate said. She slammed the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and affiliated mental health organizations that tout false statistics to the media about the number of Americans suffering from "mental illness" which she said is a fraudulent misrepresentation.

Ms. Eastgate said, "The Today Show interview was a warning that people need to study psychiatry and its purported research rather than accepting at face value concepts such as a chemical imbalance in the brain is causing their problems, which can deny them real help. In any media interview with a psychiatrist he should be asked what lab test he uses to determine this. There isn't one."

The "chemical imbalance" theory, popularized by marketing, is "no more than psychiatric wishful thinking," the group's U.S. president, author and former educator, Bruce Wiseman says. "It has been thoroughly discredited by researchers, doctors and scientists. The only reason it exists is that it makes it easier for psychiatrists to drug vulnerable and often desperate individuals. It is driven by more than $23 billion in drug sales each year."

Appearing in CCHR's video is Dr. Julian Whitaker, author and founder of the highly respected Whitaker Wellness Center in California, who says that psychiatry is a pseudoscience. "There's no pathology. There's no blood test. There's no lab test. There's no x-ray. Psychiatrists list out and vote on clusters of behavior and call them a disease. They are giving drugs to millions of people who do not have a defined medical problem."

Also interviewed is New York psychiatrist Ron Leifer who says, "There's no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, 'I have a biochemical imbalance,' I say, 'Show me your lab tests.' There are no lab tests. So what's the biochemical imbalance?"

Based on this false theory, millions of people have fallen prey to psychiatric treatment: stimulants and antidepressants have induced teenagers to go on murderous shooting sprees (8 out of 13 school shootings, such as the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, were committed by teens on psychiatric drugs). Mothers on these drugs have killed their children or cut off the arms of their baby while taking these drugs. Electroshock-the firing of up to 460 volts of electricity across the temples-is damaging the brains of over 100,000 Americans every year.

Because of the influence of psychiatry in the nation's schools, hundreds of parents have also been forced to place their children on psychotropic drugs as a requisite for their education, an abuse CCHR and others countered with congressional support last year. The Prohibition of Mandatory Medication amendment now prohibits this practice.

For 14 years, CCHR has also worked with parents and concerned groups to expose the violence and suicide-inducing effects of antidepressants. Last October, the Food and Drug Administration ordered a "black box" label for antidepressants that the drugs could cause suicide. But these reforms are not enough to curb what CCHR says is a "national crisis" of child drugging and psychotropic drug abuse.

The International Narcotics Control Board says that 80 percent of the world's Ritalin consumption is in the United States. This is a drug that medical studies show can predispose children to later cocaine use because Ritalin and cocaine derive from similar chemical properties. A study of 500 children over 26 years by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that Ritalin is basically a "gateway drug" to other drugs, in particular cocaine. A recent survey by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America found 10 percent of teens abuse the stimulants Ritalin and Adderall. Between 1995 and 1999, the use of antidepressants increased 580 percent in the under-6 population and 151 percent in the 7-12 age group.

In some communities, 20 percent of children are taking stimulants, according to Drug Enforcement Administration pharmacologist Gretchen Feussner. "That should be a wake-up call that something isn't right," Feussner said.

"Psychiatrists are society's biggest drug pushers," Wiseman says. "People do suffer from serious mental difficulties or life- crippling problems and their methods of coping with this can fail. Psychiatrists exploit this, marketing drugs for conditions they admit they do not know the cause of or can cure. Fraud involves intentional deception or deliberate misrepresentation to secure money, rights or privilege. Americans are waking up to this psychiatric fraud."

The group's White Paper, "Common Psychiatric Drugs and Their Effects," and other website publications warn people that they should not stop taking psychiatric drugs unless it is under medical advice and supervision. They stress the need to find competent medical (not psychiatric) doctors who can do thorough physical examinations to determine what could be underlying and causing emotional problems.
27th June 2005, Los Angeles
Marla Filidei, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 800-869-2247;
Web: http://www.cchr.org
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"Many thanks for producing such a valuable and unbiased back-up resource for me to show patients who go into a tail spin when they realize that they've been using some awful stuff in their lives." - Lizabeth S., London, UK

"Everything about the CTM mission makes perfect sense to me. The more people who know about it the better!" - Nicola S, Kincardineshire, UK

"I am very concerned about not being able to take vitamins and minerals the way I wish to. How dare the EU tell me I can't take care of my own health in my way." - Don P, London, UK

"Keep at it, you guys!" - Frances B., Tauranga, New Zealand

"God bless you in your efforts to keep Britain out of the EU!" - Alice H, Ontario, Canada

"I was blown away with Phillip's talk. An excellent evening. Will definitely look forward to future talks!" - Lesley H, Angus, UK

"I have given your brilliant book 'The Truth About HIV' to many people. Thanks for all the great work you are doing." - Anne N, Alicante, Spain

"I am against the EU and everything they stand for. I have researched the EU and Illuminati for many years now and their main purpose is to take over everyone and everything in their grasp, even our very soul if that were possible. Good luck in making people aware!! I pray the people will listen and take heed of the message." - Norma N, Virginia, USA

"Very inspirational speaker who obviously is passionate about this chosen subject. Thank you for a very informative and enjoyable evening. I will be very proud to be a member of your campaign." - Sonya & Matt H, Tyne & Wear, UK

"I am now telling family and friends about 'The Truth'. I would also like to find a way of doing more to educate others." - Zoe P, North Yorkshire, UK

"Thank you for opening my eyes." - Brian K, Co Derry, UK

"Keep up the good work and keep us all informed of what's going on at all times." - Brian C, London, UK

"We share your passions for liberating people from tyranny of toxic industrial 'techno-medicine'. We want to stop the march of this health destroying system from advancing in non-industrial societies who can ill afford this waste. Good luck with your noble work." - Hakim K., Leicestershire, UK

"Nature knows best - keep up the good work." - Michael McC, Christchurch, New Zealand

"I think your campaign is correct and although I have a very deep distrust of all politicians, this breed of eurocrats are a completely different kettle of rotting fish that should be rooted out and kept out of this country at all costs" - Tony R, Merseyside, UK

"Great to hear and follow Phillip Day's holistic approach to good health and practise it myself and promote it as well." - Brian H, South Island, New Zealand

"The last six months has changed our lives and lifestyles with proper nutrition and a holistic approach to good health." - Maureen H., North Canterbury, New Zealand

"CTM will always lead people of the world to progress in the right direction for mankind" - Dr Tjiauw L T, Jakarta, Indonesia

"Love your work, Phillip Day! Bless you and yours." - Lynette J, QLD, Australia

"Positive, exciting talk which filled me with hope and took away the fear. I always believed in the natural power of the body to heal itself." - Siobhan McC, Antrim, UK

"Thank you, Phillip, for your awesome energy, insight and drive. A pleasure to talk to you." - Paul W, Antrim, UK

"An excellent talk, Phillip!! An inspiration! Just what I needed and have done for so long! May God bless you as you share THE TRUTH." - Tim B, Antrim, UK

"The content of seminar seems to provide answers to questions I have been raising for years." - Pam W, Nottinghamshire, UK

"Keep up the great work!" - Clive C, Hants, UK

"A really interesting evening. Definite food for thought'!" - Susan R, Norfolk, UK

"Thank you for your commitment and clarity!" - Margaret G, Norfolk, UK

"Very informative and thought provoking" - Maureen M, Notts, UK

"I am an ex-pat living in Aus, been here since a boy of 12 but still love England dearly. I hate to see what those b***dy Polys trying to drag England further into the mud, the EU and other rotten thing to hat beautiful country. Could someone please explain to me why the Queen cannot have the Polys responsible for the further integration into the EU up for treason? Surely she has some powers left. Regards, a worried ex-pat." - Roger W, NSW, Australia

"Was at one of Phillip Day's seminars and loved what he had to say. Read his books and am interested in all he has to say." - Sherry B, AZ, USA

"I have seen the video "Healthy At 100" and I feel what has been said is the common sense that we have lost due to the commercialisation of our western culture and the vested interest of large corporate companies assisted by Governments that are reliant on the money they provide to fund various projects and the effective lobbies." - Darren C, Staffordshire, UK

"I was enlightened and relieved to read the book 'World Without AIDS'. I had also been given the death sentence after being told I was HIV positive and was about to have my tubes tied and yet I really wanted children. Thank you so much for giving me my life back. I am already in a good relationship and I had been keeping myself back from dating this gentleman for fear of infecting him with the virus. I have been living like this for three years since I tested positive with no hope of ever finding love or being loved or having children. The book also answered a lot of questions I had about the virus and the treatments available. Fortunately for me I had not taken any drugs as I always preferred natural methods and only take drugs as the last resort. Even though I was taking care of myself, taking the right supplements, on a good diet, I still had this dark shadow always hanging around and this book has taken it away. I could go on and on thanking you, because you cannot begin to imagine what learning the truth meant to me, and it all made sense. Thank you." -Margareth Z, Harare. Zimbabwe

"I have watched a few DVDs, read a few books and can't wait to see Phillip Day live!" - Melissa S, QLD, Australia

"I feel very strongly about the disgusting state of this medical conspiracy at the expense of our loved ones, for the sake of profit for the pharmaceutical industry giants. It is ludicrous that they have managed to get away with it for so long." - Grant B, Cape Town, South Africa

"My mind has been opened: I pray for the will to act!" - George S, Somerset, UK

"What a breath of fresh air! A man who speaks the truth!!! Watch out you killer drug companies. Thank you Phillip Day."- Tara N, Bedfordshire, UK

"Very inspiring. I could listen for hours. Looking forward to reading the books. Keep up the passion." - Philippa B, Hampshire, UK

"Thought-provoking and inspiring to be nourished by the professional and humorous, well researched, passionate presentation." - Verena D, Hampshire, UK

"Great talk and information." - Sandra T, Hampshire, UK

"Brilliant! Just what I've been looking for." - Janet C, Hampshire, UK