OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 22, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A dramatic increase in the prescription of dangerous psychotropic drugs to Japanese children prompted Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Japan and a group of concerned holistic professionals to organize a daylong call to action at the Osaka International Convention Center. More than 1,000 attended the sessions and toured the “ Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit” to learn the cold, hard facts about psychiatry, its history, plans, practitioners, and the threat the industry poses to the country’s children and future.
PHOTO CAPTION: More than a thousand attended the Citizens Commission on Human Rights daylong conference at Osaka International Convention Center to learn the truth about psychiatry. CCHR Japan Executive Director Yuzuru Ogura, who has directed the activities of this human rights watchdog since 2007, described how he and his team learned of the dangers of psychiatric drugs. Drugs often prescribed to youngsters increase violence and suicidality in children and young adults.
CCHR documented abuse cases and provided this urgent information to Japan’s Ministry of Health, which issued 66 black box warnings on psychiatric drugs—the strictest and most serious level warning that can be placed on a pharmaceutical product. Despite these warnings in Japan and many other countries, annual global sales of drugs prescribed for so-called learning disabilities bring in tens of billions of U.S.
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