Troubled Teens Targeted for Risky “Behavioral” Treatment
CCHR urges legislators to act fast this year to protect “troubled youth” in light of increasing allegations of sexual assault, chemical abuse, and restraint deaths…
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UN Human Rights Day Should Tackle Cruel & Inhuman Psychiatric Treatment
Child restraint deaths, electroshocking 5-year-olds and 6.7 million 0-17-year-olds prescribed psychotropic drugs has watchdog speaking out about violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…
Misleading Studies Help Spur Harmful Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions in the US
CCHR applauds new study that exposes biased and misleading psychiatric studies that may explain why 80 million Americans take psychotropic drugs. Theories about biological bases…
CCHR Urges New Military-VA Law to Expand Study into All Psychotropic Drug Deaths
A federal law recommending a study of the role of opioids and benzodiazepines in veteran deaths omits high-risk antidepressants and antipsychotics; mental health watchdog advises…
CCHR: Bipartisan Action Needed to Stop Child Torture in Behavioral Facilities
Mental health watchdog stresses need for effective action to ban the use of seclusion and restraints on children for behavior modification, citing trauma and death…