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December 2016 – Largest U.S. Psychiatric Hospital Chain (UHS) Loses $1.5 Billion within 6 Hours Following BuzzFeed News Exposé
In the past 18 months, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) has filed over 2,860 official complaints against Universal Health Services (UHS) behavioral facilities with state and federal agencies, the FBI, healthcare fraud control units, and state and federal legislators…. Read more…
September 2016 – CCHR: Exposing Psychiatric Abuse & Fraud
With your support CCHR has filed over 3,300 complaints with federal law enforcement agencies and state and federal legislators against psychiatric facilities across the nation. These complaints include information we have obtained through Freedom of Information Requests…. Read more…
August 2016 – ADHD: Redefining Childhood as a Mental Disorder for Profit
For decades CCHR has provided the public with timely and accurate information about the ADHD diagnosis and alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs, including writing thousands of articles distributed world-wide, distributing more than one million publications (in 17 languages) on the labeling and drugging of kids, producing four award-winning documentaries and making available parent-friendly websites, including Parents Know Your Rights, that have reached millions…. Read more…
July 2016 – Private Psychiatric Hospital Chain Sued and Plagued by Allegations
CCHR’s ongoing investigations into privately-owned psychiatric facilities has led to calls for governments to ensure greater accountability from the for-profit psychiatric sector. Concurrently, government inspectors are investigating patient complaints and have cited 44 of Universal Health Services’ (UHS) hospitals in 23 states for dangerously poor care or unsafe conditions…. Read more…
June 2016 – A New Low for Psycho-Pharma: Candy-flavored ADHD Drugs & “ADHD Superheroes”
CCHR continues to expose the lengths to which the psycho-pharmaceutical industry will go to target children as “mental patients” – sinking to new depths with the lure of candy-coated ADHD drugs and imaginary ADHD superheroes…. Read more…
May 2016 – CCHR Launches Public Awareness Campaign in Honor of International CHildren’s Day
You may not know that June 1st is International Children’s Day! In honor of this day, for the month of June, we will be placing ads and distributing our simple, easy-to-read booklet, Psychiatric Drugs & Your Child’s Future, to parents for free! Read more…
April 2016 – Federal Legislation Proposes Investigating Connection Between Psychiatric Drugs and Veteran Suicides
The link between psychiatric drugs and veteran suicides is an issue that CCHR has been exposing for years. Now, finally, federal legislation has been introduced that specifically addresses the connection between psychiatric drugs and the role they play in the increased number of veteran suicides. Read more…
March 2016 – CCHR’s 47th Anniversary & Human Rights Awards Event
On Saturday, February 20th, 2016, CCHR International held its anniversary celebration in Los Angeles, California. The event was attended by hundreds of people including: state representatives, doctors recording artists, attorneys, educators, human rights advocates, journalists, authors and celebrities. Read more…
February 2016 – CCHR Warns Parents About Stimulant Adderall Risks
CCHR warns parents to be alert to their teen-aged children being illicitly sold the stimulant Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) in light of Louisiana neurologist, Don Gervais recent statement that abuse can “lead to progressive and early drug induced Parkinsonism.” Many people are prescribed the drug and then sell it for profit, according to Dr. Gervais. The effects on the brain are similar to taking meth. Read more…
January 2016 – Florida Psych Facility to Close Amidst Patient Abuse Allegations
Universal Health Services, a company with 21 psychiatric facilities under federal investigation for potential billing fraud, announced the closure of its National Deaf Academy (NDA) Behavioral Health System in Mt. Dora, Florida. NBC News reported the NDA is closing after being “hit with abuse allegations,” with many of these investigated and reported by NBC and other organizations. Read more…
December 2015 – The New York Times: Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics
Even The New York Times is now reporting on the alarming number of toddlers being prescribed powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs. The source of the statistics cited by The New York Times is called IMS Health, known by both media and Congress as the most accurate source of pharmaceutical prescription data available in the U.S. What you may not know is that CCHR was the first organization to purchase and publish the alarming statistics on child drugging from IMS Health. Read more…
November 2015 – Prescription Terrorism: ISIS Fighters Widely Reported to be Fueled by ADHD Drug
CCHR has been exposing the link between psychiatric drugs and violence for decades. Today, CCHR joined ranks with the likes of CNN, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Independent, and hundreds of news outlets in reporting that “The War on Drugs” has taken on a literal twist, with ISIS fighters being fueled by a stimulant drug known as Captagon – a pharmaceutical cousin of the ADHD drug, Adderall. Read more…
October 2015 – Oregon: Another Mass Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? 35 School Shootings/Mass Stabbings Tied to Psychiatric Drugs
Law enforcement officials identified 26-year old, Chris Harper Mercer, as the gunman who killed 10 people and wounded seven others at Umpqua Community College in southwestern Oregon. It appears Mercer is another in a long list of school shooters who have a history of mental health services and, more likely than not, had been prescribed psychiatric drugs. Read more…
September 2015 – New Study Confirms What CCHR Has Said for Decades: Antidepressants Cause Violence
That’s what mainstream press such as the LA Times and Reuters are reporting, based on a new study published in a respected medical journal, PLOS Medicine, which found young adults between the ages of 15-24, were nearly fifty percent more likely to be convicted of a homicide, assault, robbery, arson, kidnapping, sexual offense and other violent crime when taking the antidepressant than when they weren’t taking the psychiatric drug. Read more…
August 2015 – Breaking News: Timberlawn, Texas Psych Hospital Loses Federal Funding
On August 14th federal regulators cut Medicare and Medicaid funding to the Timberlawn psychiatric hospital in Texas, owned by Universal Health Services (UHS), following a court ruling. CCHR has filed numerous complaints with federal and state officials about grievous problems at not only Timberlawn but at other UHS-owned psychiatric and behavioral facilities. Read more…
July 2015 – CCHR Expanding Its Investigation Into Psychiatric Healthcare
With the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declaring that “rooting out healthcare fraud is central to the well-being of both our citizens and overall economy,” CCHR is expanding their investigation into psychiatric healthcare fraud involving fraudulent billing for drug and other treatment Read more…
June 2015 – With Your Support CCHR is Reaching Tens-of-Millions
With your support, CCHR, through our website, social media and news outlets, have reached tens-of-millions of people with our public awareness campaigns. For example, this past month, the well-renowned website, PsychologyToday.com, used statistics from cchrint.org in their article, “3 Facts All Parents Should Know About ADHD Stimulant Drugs.” Read more…
May 2015 – Leading Psychiatrists Admit No Medical Tests Exist for Mental Disorders
CCHR has been fighting for decades to expose the fraud of psychiatric diagnosing and to educate people that there are no tests which can confirm psychiatric disorders as a disease or medical illness. Now, even leading psychiatrists are writing exactly this in the Huffington Post. Read more…
April 2015 – New Mexico Lawmakers Join Growing List of States Protecting Children From Forced Psychiatric Drugging
New Mexico took a big step toward protecting children’s and parents’ rights when, last week, Governor Susana Martinez signed into law a bill ensuring that a parent’s decision not to administer psychotropic drugs to a child is not grounds for a child being removed from parental custody by Child Protective Services (CPS). Read more…
March 2015 – CCHR’s 2015 Human Rights Awards Banquet
CCHR celebrated its 46th Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Banquet on February 28th, honoring courageous individuals who refused to sit idly by in the face of mental health abuses. Read more…
January 2015 – The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act—Helps Big Pharma, Harms Children & Their Families
There are one in four Americans currently being prescribed psychiatric drugs; eight million of these are children. A new mental health legislative bill, The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, will not only do nothing to abate the prescription drug epidemic we are currently facing, but will increase the number of Americans put at risk. Read more…
December 2014 – Disease Mongering: Daydreamers May Soon Be Labeled Mentally Ill
George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films once stated, “I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.” The latest fad diagnoses will “psychiatrize” the creative thoughts of millions of children. Read more…
November 2014 – Major Study Reveals ADHD Drugs Have Never Been Proven Safe or Effective
A recent study lead by researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and several other institutions, recently found that there have never been any studies proving that ADHD drugs are either safe, or effective. Read more…
October 2014 – CCHR Launches Investigation into Michigan Mental Health Policies
In response to the state of Michigan’s repeated attempts to prosecute mother Maryanne Godboldo for refusing to drug her daughter, CCHR has launched an in-depth investigation into Michigan’s mental health policies to get to the bottom of the state’s seemingly endless prosecution of Godboldo. Read more…
September 2014 – Psychiatric Drugs Send 90,000 to Emergency Rooms Each Year
With the release of a recent JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) psychiatry study showing that psychiatric drugs send nearly 90,000 Americans to emergency rooms annually, CCHR, the leading mental health watchdog, says there is a need for consumers to search its Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Database to learn the documented risks of these drugs. Read more…
August 2014 – CCHR Calls on the FDA to Pull Plug on Judge Rotenberg Center Electroshocking Kids
With its use of electroshock used as punishment for misbehaving youth, the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) has been dubbed “the school of shock,” by Mother Jones Magazine, and its practices likened to torture by the United Nations. Now the FDA must rule whether the device being used to inflict shock treatment on troubled kids, called “aversive conditioning,” should be banned. Read more…
July 2014 – New Study Claiming Black Box Warnings on Antidepressants “Raised Suicide Attempts” is Bogus
In an obvious attempt to remove black box suicide warnings from antidepressants, a new study claims that black box warnings increased the numbers of suicide attempts. While the press actually bought into this bogus study, CCHR did something they apparently couldn’t be bothered to do—we actually READ the study. Not only is there zero evidence to back their claim, but the entire tale is one spun by spin doctors and the press just bought it. Read more…
June 2014 – CCHR Says Report of 10,000 Toddlers on ADHD Drugs Tip of the Iceberg—274,000 0-1 Year Olds and 370,000 Toddlers Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs
While the recent New York Times article, “Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds, Raising Worries,” seems shocking, the actual numbers of infants and toddlers being prescribed psychiatric drugs dwarfs the 10,000 2-3 year olds being prescribed ADHD drugs. According to documents CCHR obtained from IMS health, more than 274,000 0-1 year olds are being prescribed psychiatric drugs and a staggering 370,000 toddlers. Read more…
May 2014 – CCHR Launches Petition for a Congressional Investigation into the Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Military Suicides and Sudden Deaths
CCHR organized a march through the streets of New York protesting the American Psychiatric Asso-ciation (APA) and that it is ignoring the psychotropic drug connection to hundreds of sudden deaths of soldiers and vets. Read more…
March 2014 – Psychiatry & Child Protective Services: Abducting and Drugging Children
If, as the saying goes, “a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members,” then the high profile cases of psychiatric strong-arming, drugging and abduction of 11-year old, Ariana Godboldo and 15-year old Justina Pelletier, paints a frightening picture of how far this nation has fallen. Read more…
February 2014 – CCHR’s 2014 Human Rights Award Winners
CCHR celebrated its 45th Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Banquet on February 1st, in Los Angeles, honoring courageous individuals who refused to sit idly by in the face of mental health abuses. Read more…
January 2014 – CCHR’s 45th Anniversary & Human Rights Awards Banquet
Join us in honoring: A Colonel and Military Psychologist who blew the whistle on psychiatry’s infiltration of the Armed Forces to hook troops on psychoactive drugs. Read more…
December 2013 – Three-fold Increase in Mass Shootings in Step with Increased Psychiatric Drugging
In the wake of US Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent announcement of the three fold increase in mass U.S. shootings, investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O’Meara points out “While the data about the ever-increasing random shootings is important, it doesn’t mean spit unless someone in a position of power is willing to seriously question what is causing the violent behavior. Read more…
November 2013 – Johnson & Johnson Will Pay $2.2 Billion to Settle Charges of Illegally Promoting Antipsychotic Drug
This past month Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion in fines to settle accusations that it improperly promoted the antipsychotic drug Risperdal to older adults and children. Read more…
October 2013 – Watch—The drugging of our children—0 to 5 year olds
More than 1 million children are being drugged between the ages of 0 to 5 in the United States alone. CCHR created a brand new PSA that includes never before released statistics on the psychiatric drugging of children from birth through age five. Read more…
July 2013 – FOX Special Report Series—Military’s Use of Powerful Psychiatric Drugs
Last month FOX National News released a three-part series on the drugging of our nation’s military, produced by award-winning investigative reporter Douglas Kennedy, and assisted by CCHR International. Read more…
June 2013 – FOX Special Report: Drugging the American Soldier—Military’s Reliance on Powerful Psych Drugs
In an article released this past Memorial Day by Fox National News, investigative reporter Douglas Kennedy teams up with Dr. Peter Breggin and CCHR Human Rights Award Winner, Stan White to expose the “increased use of powerful psychiatric drugs on our veterans and the impact these drugs are having.” Read more…
May 2013 – American Free Press—Psychiatric Profession Has Lost Its Mind
CCHR used to be one of the only groups protesting psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) for its bogus science and penchant for pathologizing all human behaviors and emotions into “disease”—a profitable enterprise, but one completely lacking medical or scientific validity. But we are no longer alone. Read more…
April 2013 – Parents File Appeal Against Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Refusal to Release Adam Lanza’s Toxicology Results
Despite a formal request from AbleChild, a parent’s rights organization, citing numerous state and federal laws supporting the release of Adam Lanza’s toxicology results and medical records, Connecticut Medical Examiner, H. Wayne Carver, M.D., has arbitrarily denied the request. Read more…
March 2013 – Newtown Mother Fights for Release of Toxicology Tests of Alleged School Shooter Adam Lanza
“We want the records before they ask for more money for mental health, which could be dangerous. We want the records to know what kind of mental health treatment he was receiving. We need to know what he was taking.” — Patricia Sabato Read more…
January 2013 – Coming Soon—CCHR International’s New and Improved Website
COMING SOON: Next month, CCHR International will be revealing its newly upgraded website (www.cchrint.org). This includes a greatly improved version of our online Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine, which is comprised of more than 500,000 adverse reactions reported to the US FDA in graphic form Read more…
December 2012 – CCHR—Campaigns That Are Saving Lives
1 in 5 Americans are currently taking psychiatric drugs—47 million adults and 10 million children—so that’s 57 million in the U.S. alone. In order to inform these individuals of the risks of these drugs, CCHR has taken its public awareness campaigns to a whole new level. Read more…
November 2012 – Psychiatric Drugs & War: A Suicide Mission
CCHR launched a four-part series on the drugging of our military, authored by award-winning investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O’Meara. Her first two articles, Psychiatry & War: A Suicide Mission and Two Soldiers Prescribed 54 Drugs: Military Mental Health Becomes Frankenpharmacy were picked up and run by more than 20,000 online media outlets. Read more…
October 2012 – In Memoriam: Dr. Thomas Szasz — Champion for Liberty
Professor Thomas Szasz, iconic champion for liberty, pioneer in the fight against coercive psychiatry and co-founder of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, has passed away at the age of 92. Considered by many scholars and academics to be psychiatry’s most authoritative critic, Dr. Szasz authored hundreds of articles and more than 35 books on the subject. Read more…
September 2012 – Fight For Kids – Parents—Know Your Rights
Parents need to know their rights, especially in regards to keeping their children safe and off of dangerous psychiatric drugs. For example, most parents are unaware that schools cannot require a child to take a psychiatric drug as a condition of attending school. Any coercion or pressure put on the parent violates federal law. This law came about following CCHR’s documentation of numerous cases of parents being coerced/pressured or forced to give their children psychiatric drugs by school personnel.Read more…
July 2012 – Fight For Kids – Childhood is Not a “Mental Disorder”
New Video: Kids—Childhood is not a “mental disorder”. CCHR educates parents around the world on the dangers of psychiatric drugs, the unscientific nature of psychiatric “labels” and provides information on non-harmful, workable medical and educational treatments for assisting children with problems of attention, mood and behavior. Read more…
February 2012 – CCHR’s 43rd Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Banquet – Honoring Outstanding Human Rights Achievements
CCHR’s 43rd Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Banquet, held on February 11th in Los Angeles, was an outstanding success! Many in attendance said the event, which honors outstanding human rights achievements in the field of mental health reform, was the most powerful and hard-hitting they had seen yet. Read more…
December 2011 – Victory for Parental Rights: Charges Dropped Against Detroit Mother Over Forced Drugging of Daughter
For more than 8 hours, Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo held off child welfare workers, police and a swat team who were try to remove her teenage daughter from her custody because Godboldo would not give her the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. Ms. Godboldo was charged with multiple felonies but following a lengthy court battle, all criminal charges were dropped Read more…
November 2011 – Legislative News – U.S. Senate Adopts Parental Consent Act
Great news—U.S. Senator Rand Paul, son of Congressman Ron Paul, has just introduced the Senate version of the Parental Consent Act (which was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in August). The Parental Consent Act (H.R. 2769 and now S. 1800) prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socio-emotional screening programs.. Read more…
October 2011 – CCHR’s Charity Golf Tournament — “Fight For Kids”
Fight For Kids is a public awareness campaign launched by CCHR to help educate parents on the dangers of psychiatric drugs, the unscientific nature of psychiatric “labels” and to provide information on non-harmful, workable medical and educational treatments for assisting children with problems of attention, mood and behavior. Read more…
September 2011 – Parents’ Rights: The Brave Detroit Mother Who Stood up to Child Protective Services
The case of Maryanne Godboldo and the defense of her daughter against forced drugging by the state has quickly become legendary. Earlier this year Godboldo, the mother of a 13-year old girl, was being accused of neglecting her child by refusing to administer the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. Read more…
August 2011 – Legislative Alert – The Parental Consent Act
Congressman Ron Paul has re-introduced The Parental Consent Act (H.R. 2769 – previously H.R. 2218 in 2009), a bill which prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program. Read More…
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