Exhibit Documents Psychiatric Abuses, Highlights Child Drugging Epidemic

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has launched a traveling exhibit documenting historical abuses in psychiatry and highlighting what it calls an epidemic of child drugging with psychotropic medications. The exhibit features graphic panels and video excerpts from the documentary Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, tracing what organizers describe as false scientific claims that humans are animals who can be treated through brutal methods like lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy, leading to today's widespread use of mind-altering drugs.

During the exhibit's opening, guest speaker Diane Lewis, a 40-year veteran special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, expressed grave concerns about the education system. "I'm very concerned for the children and the education they are getting," Lewis stated. "Too many children are coming in who had a label of ADHD or another psychiatric label. I could not teach them when they are on the drugs. Kids are coming to school with so many problems and trauma, but current programs in our schools are not dealing with these problems, just drug them."

The exhibit's most impactful panels focused on the drugging of school children, with organizers claiming over 20 million children are on psychotropic drugs. According to the exhibit, this has resulted in an epidemic of violence and suicides among young people taking these medications. The display directly links the drastic rise in school shootings to psychiatric drug use by perpetrators, with CCHR's latest documentary Prescription for Violence available to visitors to document this connection.

Organizers presented what they called the real eye-opener of the exhibit: despite billions spent annually on psychiatric treatments, the psychiatric industry offers zero cures. Instead, they claim it leaves behind what has become a plague in every U.S. city—drug addiction, homelessness, incarceration in mental institutions, and grief. The CCHR exhibit travels through major cities in the Western United States, warning parents and community members that psychiatric treatments kill. There are 14 identical traveling exhibits operating worldwide.

For more information about the organization's work, visitors can access the CCHR website or watch documentaries about CCHR volunteers' work globally and the film Psychiatry: An Industry of Death on the Scientology Network. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was co-founded in 1969 by psychiatry professor Dr. Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology, with commissioners including physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers, legislators, government officials, educators, and civil rights representatives.