Citizens Commission On Human Rights News

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CCHR Demands Increased Oversight and Accountability in Response to National Scandal of Staff-Inflicted Sexual Abuse in Residential Behavioral Hospitals
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CCHR, a Mental Health Industry Watchdog Increases its Campaign to Educate Parents on Preventing Forced Mental Health Screening of Schoolchildren
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The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, shares the report's human rights abuse concerns and demands accountability as U.S. mental health facilities profit from coercion and neglect.
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CCHR supports Federal Investigation Launched into the Mass Labeling and "Medicating" of America's Children, especially for ADHD
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CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.
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As the nation observes Black History Month, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights highlights racial disparities in restraint-related deaths and advocates for legislative change to protect vulnerable patients.
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Mental Health Industry Watchdog CCHR Calls for Nationwide Ban, Citing History of Abuse and Fatalities in Troubled Teen Industry
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Professor Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced has prompted the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to call for greater treatment consent provisions to inform patients a "chemical imbalance" in the brain causing depression is disproved.
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CCHR, a mental health watchdog, provides resources on psychotropic drug risks often prescribed after major traumatic events such as fires. It suggests redirecting California's $6.4 billion "millionaire tax" on mental health to help rebuild homes for displ
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CCHR says 1,200 documents revealing the dangers of the 1950s CIA mind control experiments, including the use of LSD, should serve as a warning against today's looming $5 billion psychedelic drug and research market.
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Reflecting on the progress made against coercive psychiatric practices and obtaining child protections in 2024, CCHR commits itself in 2025 to reinforcing the need to end psychiatric abuse.
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Congress passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton. CCHR says the law sets a precedent for protecting youth from psychiatric-behavioral restraints and other abuses, using strong oversight.
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A new study reveals widespread misinformation about electroshock therapy among patients. CCHR says parents are similarly misled about ECT use on teens and children as young as five. Moreover, antidepressants—often a precursor to ECT recommendations—also c