Celebrities present human rights awards to individuals who risked their careers to warn the public about psychiatric drug risks, and urge parents to get informed.
March 15, 2007 (Press Release) --
LOS ANGELES: At the annual awards banquet of the psychiatric watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), actors Kirstie Alley, Kelly Preston, Priscilla Presley, Marisol Nichols and Anne Archer awarded mental health industry whistleblowers who have risked their professional careers to warn the public about the dangers and fraudulent marketing of psychiatric drugs. Exemplifying the effort to inform parents and consumers, former pharmaceutical sales representative Gwen Olsen, and former Pennsylvania government investigator Allen Jones, were presented with CCHR's annual Human Rights Awards for their courageous contributions to mental health reform.
Allen Jones reluctantly stepped forward as a whistleblower. Kirstie Alley presented Jones with his Human Rights Award for exposing several pharmaceutical companies who bribed Texas government officials to implement mental health treatment laws requiring the use of their brand name drugs.
Recently, a four-year-old Massachusetts girl died from a deadly cocktail of psychiatric drugs, calling into question the psychiatric practice of drugging small children with powerful anti-psychotic drugs. Last week, the story ran in The New York Times and was featured on Fox National News, drawing national attention to the culpability of the prescribing psychiatrist, and the growing controversy over psychiatrists drugging children and toddlers with powerful drugs.
Tragic cases like this compelled Gwen Olsen, former pharmaceutical sales representative, to leave her profitable career and write the book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher. In presenting Olsen with her Human Rights Award, Kelly Preston told Olsen's story of giving misinformation to doctors in selling the drugs, while being encouraged by the pharmaceutical companies she worked for to minimize the side effects in her pitches.
Olsen's story was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in which she explained that psychotropic drugs given to children, "clamp down on the central nervous system, in effect they reduce your mobility... sort of like a chemical straight jacket."
Marisol Nichols, from the Emmy-award winning series, "24," awarded psychiatrist Dr. Collin Ross, who exposed psychiatric CIA mind control experiments, documented in his acclaimed book, The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists.
Anne Archer awarded neurologist Dr. John Friedberg for more than two decades of work to expose the debilitating side effects of electroshock (ECT) resulting in permanent and irreversible memory loss. Dr. Friedberg wrote the book, Shock Treatment Is Not Good For Your Brain.
The celebrities at CCHR's anniversary banquet in February joined hundreds of legislators, doctors, attorneys, parents, human rights activists and others to acknowledge these heroic individuals who have warned the public about damaging psychiatric techniques.
Allen Jones reluctantly stepped forward as a whistleblower. Kirstie Alley presented Jones with his Human Rights Award for exposing several pharmaceutical companies who bribed Texas government officials to implement mental health treatment laws requiring the use of their brand name drugs.
Recently, a four-year-old Massachusetts girl died from a deadly cocktail of psychiatric drugs, calling into question the psychiatric practice of drugging small children with powerful anti-psychotic drugs. Last week, the story ran in The New York Times and was featured on Fox National News, drawing national attention to the culpability of the prescribing psychiatrist, and the growing controversy over psychiatrists drugging children and toddlers with powerful drugs.
Tragic cases like this compelled Gwen Olsen, former pharmaceutical sales representative, to leave her profitable career and write the book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher. In presenting Olsen with her Human Rights Award, Kelly Preston told Olsen's story of giving misinformation to doctors in selling the drugs, while being encouraged by the pharmaceutical companies she worked for to minimize the side effects in her pitches.
Olsen's story was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in which she explained that psychotropic drugs given to children, "clamp down on the central nervous system, in effect they reduce your mobility... sort of like a chemical straight jacket."
Marisol Nichols, from the Emmy-award winning series, "24," awarded psychiatrist Dr. Collin Ross, who exposed psychiatric CIA mind control experiments, documented in his acclaimed book, The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists.
Anne Archer awarded neurologist Dr. John Friedberg for more than two decades of work to expose the debilitating side effects of electroshock (ECT) resulting in permanent and irreversible memory loss. Dr. Friedberg wrote the book, Shock Treatment Is Not Good For Your Brain.
The celebrities at CCHR's anniversary banquet in February joined hundreds of legislators, doctors, attorneys, parents, human rights activists and others to acknowledge these heroic individuals who have warned the public about damaging psychiatric techniques.
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