The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog organization dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, invites veterans, active-duty military and their families to visit their center at 109 N. Fort Harrison Ave in downtown Clearwater to watch [THE HIDDEN ENEMY: INSIDE PSYCHIATRY'S COVERT AGENDA](http://www.cchr.org/documentaries/the-hidden-enemy.html) featuring Lt. Col. Bart Billings, Clinical Psychologist U.S. Army Reserve, Ret. in honor of Military Caregiver Month.
With the number of veterans committing suicide remaining at high levels despite efforts to decrease this number[1], CCHR Florida is holding special screenings of THE HIDDEN ENEMY: INSIDE PSYCHIATRY'S COVERT AGENDA featuring Lt. Col. Bart Billings, Clinical Psychologist U.S. Army Reserve, Ret. in recognition of the more than one million Military Caregivers who provide physical and emotional support to veterans as well as servicemen and women.[2]
According to a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans account for 18 percent of all suicides in the United States with 20 veterans a day taking their own lives.[3]
Additionally, the Pentagon released information in April of 2016 revealing that 265 active-duty service members committed suicide in 2015, continuing a seven year trend of high suicide rates.[4]
While both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon recognize that something needs to be done to reverse this horrific situation neither has confronted the common denominator of prescribed psychiatric drugs. The facts are that officially, one in six American service members is on at least one psychiatric drug while over the last ten years, the U.S. government has spent more than $4.5 billion dollars just medicating soldiers and veterans[5] and there are 22 international drug-regulatory agency warnings about psychiatric drugs causing violent behavior, mania, psychosis and homicidal thoughts, and 49 warnings about suicidal thoughts.
With suicide prevention remaining a top priority, CCHR applauds the members of the Florida House and Senate who have introduced legislation to provide effective alternative solutions for our veterans, said Diane Stein, President of CCHR Florida. and are also asking them to demand that the U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs launch an investigation with public hearings into the link between psychiatric drugs and the epidemic of veteran suicides.
To find out more about the special screening or other services provided by CCHR free of charge, please visit the website at, [www.cchrflorida.org](http://www.cchrflorida.org/) or call 727-442-8820.
About CCHR:
Initially established by the Church of Scientology and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz in 1969, CCHRs mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections.
It was L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, who brought the terror of psychiatric imprisonment to the notice of the world. In March 1969, he said, Thousands and thousands are seized without process of law, every week, over the free world tortured, castrated, killed. All in the name of mental health. For more information visit, [www.cchrflorida.org](http://www.cchrflorida.org/)
SOURCES:
[1] usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/04/01/us-military-suicides-remain-stubbornly-high/82518278/
[2] operationwearehere.com/SignificantDaysObservances.html
[3] militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/07/07/va-suicide-20-daily-research/86788332/
[4] usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/04/01/us-military-suicides-remain-stubbornly-high/82518278/
[5] cchrint.org/issues/the-hidden-enemy/
