Beyond Control: Psychiatry's War on Minorities with Rev. Fred Shaw Jr.

“We Don’t Have Mental Health — We Have Mental Control”

What if the very system meant to protect our kids is actually harming them?

Minister Fred Shaw Jr. — former sheriff’s deputy, NAACP president, and fierce child advocate — exposes psychiatry’s shocking grip on minority communities. It all started when his son was labeled with dyslexia and pushed toward psychiatric meds. Shaw said no — and his son thrived without them.

Now, he’s calling out a system that puts 6.1 million American kids on psychiatric drugs, many chemically similar to cocaine and meth. In foster care and juvenile justice, he reveals, medication is often used as chemical control, not care. “They’re not treating trauma. They’re sedating it.”

Through raw stories and decades of frontline experience, Shaw demands a rethink: kids don’t need more pills — they need support, belief, and real solutions.

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