Ugh. More Scieno recruitment techniques trying to prey on the concerns of the uninformed and underinformed and parents who are scared because their kids probably NEED medical intervention of some sort.
Many medications take some time to be effective, and many people do not hit the right dose or medication to address their unique issues in the first try and need a different dose or formulation or brand, and yes, there are even some people exhibiting issues that are typically addressed with prescriptions that might would do better with no meds at all, but this apparent NEED or compulsion to tar with the same brush *any and all* medical or psychiatric intervention (even for those people who may desperately need it) is typical of Scientologists who see everything in black and white filtered through Hubbard's lack of relevant education and limited knowledge and the fact that his medical / psychiatric THEORIES are already more than fifty years out of date--and since Hubbard had little scientific and medical knowledge (despite lies to the contrary) and didn't let that hold him back when waffling on with his uninformed opinions about either, and since The Opinions Of Hubbard cannot be questioned by the True Believers, you get entities like CCHR, a Scientology front group that makes even non-Sci groups with legitimate concerns about "children and (prescription) drugs" sound whack-a-doo.
The eternal hatred of "psychs" and willful ignorance about advances in medical science and psychiatry make CCHR the equivalent of the loud boor at a party who corners you to waffle on about social or political issues that were last relevant in 1972, or the cheerful, ignorant racist who offends--without any malice--out of habitual ignorance, the sexist who can't come to terms with the idea that women are no longer confined to "June Cleaver roles" in life and might have opinions or career goals or minds of their own, and so on. CCHR's idea that ALL psychiatry and ALL psychiatric medications are bad may be heartfelt but it is also grossly uninformed opinion based in ignorance and fear-mongering, and it makes CCHR's entire message suspect.
It doesn't help that the average person already knows Scientology is nonsense for the most part--"what's original about the tech isn't good, and what's good about the tech isn't original"--so when CCHR is unmasked as a front group for the cult, most intellectually inquisitive people typically dismiss it as ignorant flackery for a cult with a hate-on for psychiatry and an unpleasant agenda. Worse, CCHR underscores a problem ex-Scis may encounter after they leave the cult: COMPETENT psychotherapy / appropriate medication might helps SOME of them a LOT, but the vast majority are scared poopless of the idea of talking to a "psych" or a non-Sci medical doctor.
