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CCHR Calling for Stronger Informed Consent When Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs
A recent study of 620,000 people in the U.S. has summarily debunked the claim that depression is genetic in origin. [1] "This study confirms that efforts to find a single gene or handful of genes which determine depression are doomed to fail," says geneticist Richard...
CCHR Exhibit Warns Lawmakers that Psychotropic Drugs May Contribute to Violence and Suicide
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, unveiled a new exhibit in Tallahassee designed to educate lawmakers on the dangerous side effects of psychiatric drugs and the possible connection between...
CCHR Led Hundreds of Protestors Outside Psychiatric Convention Demanding a Ban on Electroshock Treatment
Members of the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and others concerned about the continuing use of electroshock treatment on 100,000 Americans each year—some aged five or younger [1] marched through the streets of San Francisco on...
Rise in Suicides Prompts CCHR to Call for an Investigation into the Failure of Mental Health Programs
Since 1949 the month of May has been observed by mental health advocacy groups as Mental Health Awareness Month. Started by Mental Health American as a means of educating individuals on mental health issues for the purpose of providing support for those labeled as...
CCHR Condemns FDA’S Approval of Electricity-Zapping for “ADHD” Kids
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a device to zap a low-level electrical pulse through the forehead of 7-12 year olds as treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). [1] But the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human...
Hooked on Psychiatric Drugs? Mental Health Watchdog, CCHR, Advises Reporting the Abuse and to Take Action
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog—one of the first groups to expose the violence and suicide-inducing effects of antidepressants in 1989—are advising people to report psychotropic drug adverse...
Alternative Solutions to Mental Health Seminar
Come to this free seminar and learn about safe, healthy and alternative solutions to mental health. Delivered by a medical professional in the interest of improving society's health and the future of our children. Monday, May 6th from 6:30pm until 8:00pm Complimentary...
CCHR Warns Officials on Dangers of Mental Health Screenings
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR, is cautioning decision makers on the use of mental health screenings in their efforts to counteract violence in schools and communities. Citing psychiatric admissions that mental health screenings...
CCHR Calls FDA Approval of Psychotropics & Electroshock a Colossal Conflict of Interest
The FDA's continuing clearance of potentially dangerous psychotropic drugs and electroshock devices fuels a lucrative $35 billion a year industry. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approving Johnson & Johnson’s (J&Js) new nasal spray...
CCHR Calls for Investigation Due to Sharp Increase in Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers
The rate of psychiatric drugging of children has increased sharply despite the lack of evidence that these drugs are remotely safe for this age group prompting CCHR to call for an investigation. According to 2013 data from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics,...
CCHR Supports U.N. and Rights’ Groups Demand for Urgent FDA Ban on Skin Electric Shock Devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will ban a device that delivers painful electrical shocks to the skin to “modify” behavior in disabled students at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Massachusetts. In a publication of its upcoming...
CCHR Continues Fight to Reform Mental Health Law in Campaign to Protect Children
The Florida chapter of the international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), has been working for years to create positive change in how the mental health law is applied to children and teens in order to protect children and parental...
CCHR Warns Officials: Mental Health Screening and Psychotropic Drugs Can Contribute to Violence
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is urging state authorities and educators not to adopt mental health screening in schools in the false hope that it could prevent acts of violence. Such screening could exacerbate the issue if it leads to children being...
CCHR Florida Applauds Court Finding Forcible Electroshock a Human Rights Violation: Reinforces the Need to Ban ECT
The Florida chapter of the international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), applauds a recent Supreme Court decision in Victoria, Australia that ruled the forcible use of electroshock treatment (ECT) violates patients’ human rights....
Humanitarian Award Presented to Attorney Committed to Fighting for Human Rights
Distinguished Florida attorney, Mrs. Carmen Miller, received the CCHR Humanitarian Award during a banquet held at the historic Fort Harrison in downtown Clearwater for her work in the fight to protect individuals from fraudulent involuntary psychiatric examinations...
Hundreds Gather to Protest the Psychiatric Drugging and Shocking of Children
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, held a demonstration in Orlando at the Psych Congress protesting the drugging and electroshocking of children. Marching through the streets to...
Hundreds Tour the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Traveling Exhibit in Miami
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit watchdog that exposes human rights violations in the field of mental health, held an exhibit this week in Miami that presented shocking evidence of mental health abuse and dangerous psychiatric drugging of...
Experts Present Youth Mental Health Solutions at World Mental Health Day Forum
CCHR hosted an event following World Mental Health Day where experts presented solutions to the challenges faced when dealing with youth mental health. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of...
CCHR: Veterans Get Damaging Mental Health Deal— Suicides increase & VA spends $1M on unsafe electroshock devices
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog, is calling for an investigation into suicide-inducing psychotropic drugs and electroshock following a recent report showing that the suicide rate of veterans aged 18 to 34 jumped more...
Fast-Rising Benzo Abuse Signals Another Psychiatric Drug Epidemic
Earlier this year, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) reported that benzodiazepines, commonly called benzos, were a factor in the deaths of Tom Petty, Prince, Heath Ledger, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and other creative artists. In the same article,...
CCHR’s “Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence & Suicide” Report—a Wakeup Call on Mass Violence
How many more tragedies and lost lives will it take for governments to recognize that in addition to any other investigations and actions they take in relation to mass acts of violence, for the sake of our communities and families, the increasing reports of...
Mental Health Watchdog Calls for Investigation into the Connection Between Violence and Psychiatric Drugs
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive psychiatric practices in the name of mental healing, is calling upon Florida lawmakers to investigate the plausible link between...
Mental Health Watchdog on a Crusade to Protect Children from Illegal Baker Acts
Seen as a statewide crisis, 32,763 involuntary examinations were initiated on children during 2016-2017 according to a report recently released by the Baker Act Reporting Center. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog...
CCHR Calling for Ban on Torturous Electroconvulsive Therapy
Mental Health Watchdog calls upon the FDA to ban the ECT device from use after finding electroshock causes brain damage, memory loss and death. The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida announced its support of the nationwide...
CCHR Educates School Safety Conference Attendees on Psychiatric Drug Dangers
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive psychiatric practices in the mental health industry, educated hundreds of school officials, security...
Mental Health Watchdog Hosts Baker Act Defense Attorney Symposium
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) hosted a conference on the Florida mental health law for defense attorneys for the purpose of discussing strategies to effectively serve families and to eradicate violations of the law at the Fort Harrison Hotel in...
CCHR Warns Officials About Forced Drugging and Illegal Baker Acting in Florida
In response to the recent Investigations and federal court filings exposing the documented psychotropic abuse of immigrant children held at Shiloh Treatment Center south of Houston, as well as other such centers, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is...
Are PTSD Suicides Connected to Psychiatric Drug Treatment?
June has been designated PTSD Awareness Month by the National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The purpose of this designation is to increase awareness of “a mental health problem that may develop after a person has been exposed to … traumatic...
America the Drugged: A Nationwide Prescription Drug Epidemic
According to the Florida Medical Examiners Annual Report for 2016, drug related deaths increased in the state by 22% over 2015 and 5,725 of the deaths investigated were opioid-related deaths. That opioid use and abuse has become an epidemic in Florida and across the...
CCHR Calls Traditional Observance of Mental Health Month into Question
Started in 1949 by Mental Health America, “Mental Health Awareness Month” – as observed by mental health advocacy groups – is purported as a means of educating the populace on mental health issues for the purpose of education and providing support for those labeled as...
Mental Health Watchdog Warns Officials on Baker Act Rights Abuses
With reports surfacing that the number of citizens being Baker Acted is on the rise following the school shooting in Parkland, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is cautioning those charged with executing an involuntary psychiatric examination to pay heed...
New York Times Exposes Antidepressant Scandal: Antidepressants are Addictive
Despite of protest from over 40 psychiatrists, the New York Times has published an in-depth investigative report of improper labeling and prescribing of antidepressants in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere. The article is headlined, “Most People Taking Antidepressants...
Mental Health Watchdog Releases New Report on Link Between Psychotropic Drugs & School/Mass Shootings
The mental health watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)International is offering Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and school officials a free copy of its compelling new report about a common denominator found in many mass shootings: psychotropic...
Mental Health Fraud is a Booming Business in Florida
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive and fraudulent psychiatric practices in the mental health industry, is bringing attention to the need for an effective system...
Psychiatric Drugs and School Shootings
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights(CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive psychiatric practices in the name of mental healing, is calling upon Florida lawmakers to first investigate the plausible link...
Study Reports that Suicide Risk Assessments May Increase the Risk of Suicide
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog that exposes human rights violations and is dedicated to the protection of children, is holding an open house this month at their center located at 109 N. Fort Harrison...
Mental Health Watchdog Continues to Fight for Children Who Remain Target of Baker Act Misuse
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog that exposes human rights violations and is dedicated to the protection of children, applauds the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department for taking action following the...
CCHR Florida Exposes Psychiatric Ties to the Holocaust Using Acclaimed Documentary
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog organization dedicated exposing abuses in the field of mental health, co-hosted a complimentary dinner event in commemoration of International Holocaust Memorial Day on...
CCHR Florida To Host International Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights(CCHR) of Florida, a nonprofit mental health watchdog organization dedicated to eradicating psychiatric abuses, will be participating in the International Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on Friday, January 26, 2018 by...
Mental Health Watchdog Aims to Protect Elderly from Baker Act Abuse
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to exposing human rights violations as well as protecting the elderly, applauds lawmakers for addressing the issue of Elder Abuse during the current legislative...
Florida Bills Could Force Taxpayers To Fund Harmful Psychiatric Services for First Responders
Current Florida statutes require that there be clear and convincing evidence of mental or nervous injury to determine benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation law for Florida’s first responders. However, recent bills calling for revisions to the standard for...
Mental Health Watchdog Calling for Investigation into Psychiatric Drugging of Millions of Children
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to protection of children, is calling for an investigation into the heavy psychiatric drugging of children; especially foster children, in Florida. A report from...
ECT: The Ultimate Child Abuse
It is hard for many to believe that ECT is still legally performed. Yet many psychologists and psychiatrists still insist this barbaric “treatment” does something more than damage brains. For instance, Edward Shorter, PhD believes that sending up to 450 volts of...
Psychiatric History Leads to Another Mass Shooting
Recently, former psychiatric patient Devin P. Kelley opened fire on churchgoers in Texas murdering 26 innocent people and injuring another 20. Kelley had a long history of psychiatric drug use, beginning as a teenager when he was diagnosed with Attention Deficit...
CCHR Florida Presents Humanitarian Award to an Attorney Dedicated to Stopping Mental Health Abuses
A prominent Florida attorney was presented with the CCHR Humanitarian Award during a banquet held at the historic Fort Harrison in downtown Clearwater for his work to expose and prevent fraudulent involuntary psychiatric examinations known as Baker Acts. Hundreds of...
CCHR Calls for Investigation into Link between Antidepressants and Teen Suicides
Galvanized by reports showing suicide to be the third leading cause of death for ages 10-24[i], the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, is calling for an investigation into...
CCHR Florida Calling for Investigation into Psychiatric Billing Fraud
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog that exposes human rights violations and is dedicated to the protection of children, is demanding answers as to why for-profit psychiatric hospitals currently under...
ECT: Psychiatrists Admit Harmful Effects but aren't Worried About Them
Dictionaries define “harmful” as coming from the word harm, which means “causing or likely to cause physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted.” In the alternate world of psychiatry, “harm” becomes a good thing, where intentionally firing 70–150...
CCHR Calling for Investigation into Violations of Law Meant to Protect Children
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog that exposes human rights violations and is dedicated to the protection of children, is calling for an investigation into apparent violations by psychiatric hospitals of a...
CCHR Florida Sheds Light on Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Suicide
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog that exposes human rights violations and is dedicated to the protection of children, is holding a month long open house in recognition of World Suicide Prevention Day in...
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