High Antidepressant Use Calls for a “De-Prescribing” De-Escalation Policy
CCHR calls for the U.S. to adopt the recent UK recommendation to reduce antidepressant use. With over 45 million Americans currently on these drugs, which…
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Journal Urges It’s Time To Regulate Troubled Teen Behavioral Programs
CCHR says a recent Journal of Legislation article finds steps taken by 11 states and Congress are inadequate given the “sheer urgency” to curb abuse,…
CCHR Recaps Mental Health Awareness Month: The Silent Epidemic of Patient Abuse Cover-Ups
Watchdog highlights reports of patients sexually and physically assaulted, drugged, restrained, or killed, all in a single month, citing nationwide and global concerns. By CCHR…
CCHR Exposes Two-Thirds of Electroshock Therapy Victims Are Women
Group says actress Whoopi Goldberg recently revealed her mother was given electroshock resulting in the memory loss of her children, highlighting that women have been…
Mental Health Awareness Month: Watchdog Blasts Ongoing Psychiatric Racism
CCHR and its Task Force Against Racism, headed by NAACP chapter president, Rev. Fred Shaw, lash out against coercive psychiatric practices that African Americans are…