Dangerous Mental Health Practices Must Stop on Our Elderly in Nursing Homes
CCHR responds to a federal investigation launched against the harmful psychotropic drugging of the elderly in nursing homes. It demands effective oversight and penalties to…
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Involuntary Commitment and Forced Mental Health Treatment Violate Human Rights
Psychiatrists’ increasing reliance upon involuntary commitment in psychiatric facilities and forced mental health treatment has caused a litany of harm and human rights abuses—funded by…
Decades of Failed School Mental Health Programs Questioned After 6-Year-Old Shot a Teacher
With gratuitous and murderous violence being committed by the very young, CCHR says violence prevention and school mental health programs have failed. Teaching “character building”…
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Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence & Suicide
Read the report on Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence and Suicide—School Shooting and Other Acts of Senseless Violence, a 64-page fully documented report. Click here >
Report Psychiatric Abuse
If you know anyone whose mother, wife, sister or father, brother, son, child or friend has been killed or damaged by psychiatric “treatment” please fill out this form Click here >
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Parents are quite simply not being given accurate information about psychiatric labels (mental disorders) or the drugs being prescribed to 'treat' their children.
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World Health Organization New Guidelines are Vital to End Coercive Psychiatric Practices & Abuse
WHO report vindicates CCHR and the many groups that have fought worldwide for the recognition of psychiatric human rights violations, including involuntary commitment and forced…
UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras Addresses Psychiatry’s Global Coercion & Crisis
UN human rights expert speaks out against coercive psychiatry, effects of totalitarian and authoritarian mental health regimes and forced treatment. CCHR calls for action to…
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When Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Becomes Reckless Endangerment
Becomes Reckless Endangerment
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