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Torture in the Troubled Teen Industry: Death by Deliberate Indifference
Parents Urged to Seek Constitutional Justice for Abused Teens By CCHR InternationalThe Mental Health WatchdogMarch 21, 2025 A newly published report in the University of…
Urgent Action Needed Amid Alarming Reports of Patient Sexual Abuse in U.S. Psychiatric Hospitals
CCHR Demands Increased Medicaid/Medicare Oversight, Accountability, and Criminal Prosecution in Response to National Scandal of Staff-Inflicted Sexual Abuse in Residential Behavioral and Psychiatric Hospitals. By…
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Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence & Suicide
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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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CCHR Supports Minnesota Man’s Opposition to Enforced Electroshock Treatment
By CCHR InternationalThe Mental Health Industry WatchdogDecember 4, 2024 A Minnesota man, David Russell, 44, has successfully fought against being court-ordered to receive further damaging…
New WHO Mental Health Guideline Condemns Coercive Psychiatric Practices
CCHR demands that governments commit to WHO’s “zero coercion” policy in mental health, and put an end to forced institutionalization and treatments. By CCHR InternationalMental…
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When Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Becomes Reckless Endangerment
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