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CCHR: FDA Oversight Failure Driving National Crisis in Psychiatric Drug Harm
CCHR alleges FDA oversight failures and industry lobbying allowed psychiatric drugs to cause addiction and neurological injury, calling for a federal investigation with new documentary evidence.
- On Dec. 22, 2025, Citizens Commission on Human Rights announced a federal probe into the Food and Drug Administration and released the documentary Prescription for Violence.
- Regulatory critics point to the FDA's industry-fee dependence and aggressive pharma marketing, with CCHR attributing harms to permissive FDA approvals, DSM diagnostic expansion, and marketing alliances between psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies.
- Data show nearly 77 million Americans take psychiatric drugs, with 2.2–5.6 million possibly suffering permanent tardive dyskinesia; cited harms include akathisia causing unbearable internal torment.
- Market figures indicate TD-treatment sales already exceed $14 billion and are growing, with CCHR saying pharmaceutical companies view harmed populations as expanding revenue bases.
- CCHR highlights forced treatment and the long-term clinical consequences as legal advocates say many patients subjected to involuntary commitment cannot refuse drugs and face zero accountability, while experts warn withdrawal causes lasting neurological injury.
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CCHR: FDA Oversight Failure Driving National Crisis in Psychiatric Drug Harm
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 22, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is raising alarms over the widespread, little-known fact that many psychiatric drugs are addictive, disfiguring, and capable of producing catastrophic neurological damage. This…
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