Read: CCHR’s Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit
mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more
than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive
practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic unalienable
human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not
limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical
legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric
treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives,
and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.
CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology
and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz
at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions
and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human rights.

CCHR functions solely as a mental health watchdog, working
alongside many medical professionals including doctors, scientists,
nurses and those few psychiatrists who have taken a stance against the
biological/drug model of “disease” that is continually promoted by the
psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs. It is a non political,
non-religious, non-profit organization dedicated solely to eradicating mental health abuse and enacting patient and consumer protections. CCHR’s Board of Advisers, called Commissioners, include doctors, scientists, psychologists, lawyers, legislators,educators, business professionals, artists and civil and human rights representatives.

People frequently ask if CCHR is of the opinion that no one should ever take psychiatric drugs, but this website is not dedicated to opinion. It is dedicated to providing information that a multi-billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical industry does not want people to see or to know. The real question therefore is this; Do people have a right to have all the information about A) the known risks of the drugs and/or treatment from unbiased, non-conflicted medical review, B) the medical validity of the diagnosis for which drugs are being prescribed, C) all non-drug options (essentially informed consent) and D) the right to refuse any treatment they consider harmful.

CCHR has worked for more than 40 years for full informed consent in the field of mental health, and the right to all the information regarding psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, not just the information coming from those with a vested interest in keeping them in the dark.

It is in this spirit that we present you with videos, blogs, news, medical experts and information designed to arm you with facts.

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