Mental Health Month is Time to End Drug and Electroshock Use in Children
6.1 million children and teens, some as young as one, prescribed psychotropic drugs, children 5 or younger electroshocked, and teens dying from restraints in behavioral…
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CCHR Supports 22-Year-Old’s Plea to Stop Enforced Electroshock Treatment
A young Minnesota adult is fighting against court-ordered brain-damaging electroshock treatment being forced on him. CCHR cites UN reports that say involuntary ECT constitutes torture….
US Should Mirror NZ Child Shock Treatment Inquiry to Ban “Therapy”
NZ Government is currently investigating allegations of hundreds of children being tortured with electroshock, an inquiry that mental health watchdog says is needed in the…
Drugs, Electroshock to 0-17 Year-Olds and Pregnant Women Needs Urgent Change
CCHR, concerned that children face motor skill failure, psychosis, suicide, memory loss and brain damage side effects from mental health therapies, refutes $82.5m of taxpayer…
New Study Further Confirms Severe Withdrawal Effects of Antidepressants
CCHR spokesperson, Fred Shaw, warns about antidepressant adverse effects and risk of African Americans being prescribed electroshock treatment when antidepressants fail. Calls it “double jeopardy:…