School Seclusion & Restraint Ban Should Extend to Psychiatric Facilities
Legislators call for a ban on seclusion rooms and restraint use on schoolchildren, but CCHR says it must extend to all physical and chemical restraint…
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African American Minister Fights for Protections Against Mental Health Abuse
Rev. Frederick Shaw reminds African Americans of the Mental Health industry’s history of stigmatizing them—from labeling runaway slaves and civil rights protestors as mentally ill…
For-Profit Psychiatric “Hospitals”: A Year of Police Raids; Staff Arrests; More Allegations of Patient Rapes; Hospital Closures and $152 Million in Lawsuit Payouts and Settlements
By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 13, 2020 For-profit psychiatric facilities paid out $152 million in criminal or civil…
UN Demands Child Electroshock Torture Investigation in NZ; FDA Fails to Ban it in US
The use of “electrocution” devices for behavior modification is condemned by the UN, but NZ and the US FDA have notoriously failed to protect children…
CCHR Warns of Psychiatrist Patrick McGorry & Others’ Brave New World Mental Health Agenda for Australia: How This Impacts the US
Behavioral screening of 0-3 year olds, psychotropic drugging of children and youths, pre-drugging kids to “prevent” mental disorders and prescription drug-inducing suicides, form a dangerous…