Watchdog Warns Against Mental Health Industry Profiting from COVID-19
CCHR’s 50 years of monitoring psychotropic drug marketing in times of social upheaval prompts call for resilience, unity and the American Spirit rather than costly…
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Study Shows Antipsychotics Given to Elderly Impacts Immune System & Health
Nursing home residents are at risk of Covid-19 yet are prescribed antipsychotics that researchers say may adversely affect their immune system that fights off infections….
More Patient Sexual Assault and Abuse Allegations Against For-Profit Psychiatric Hospitals: When Will Governments Step in to Protect Patients?
By Jan Eastgate President, CCHR International The Mental Health Watchdog March 10, 2020 Only a month ago, CCHR reported abuse of foster care children in…
FDA Took 25 Years to Ban Painful Behavioral Shock Device on Children
The FDA has banned the use of a painful and harmful “aversion therapy” device on the intellectually disabled but keeps a damaging electroshock device on…
Another DEA Raid on a Psychiatrist: Increased Indictments on Illegal Drug Prescriptions
By CCHR International The Mental Health Watchdog March 6, 2020 Fairhope, Alabama psychiatrist James Henry Edwards III, indicted last year for allegedly writing illegal prescriptions…