Reliance on Suicide Risk Assessments May Increase Suicide Deaths

by CCHR Florida | May 20, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights, Suicide & Violence

Due to COVID-19, mental health advocates are predicting that “suicide is likely to become a more pressing concern as the pandemic spreads and has longer-term effects on the general population, the economy, and vulnerable groups”. One solution being offered up is...

Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week Sheds Light on Dangerous Psychiatric Drug Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2020 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

In 2019 the Florida legislature adopted a resolution recognizing the first week in May every year as “Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week”. Tardive dyskinesia is marked by involuntary movement of the lips, tongue, jaw, fingers, toes and other body parts. Tardive...

The Unworkability of Suicide Risk Assessments

by CCHR Florida | Apr 6, 2020 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Suicide & Violence

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in young people in the US today and suicide risk assessment is often touted as the answer but experts in the field have repeatedly concluded that there is not any one scale that can predict who will commit suicide to any...

Debunking the Myths Surrounding Suicide Assessments and Suicide Rates

by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2019 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

Each year an average of 44,965 people commit suicide in the United States making it the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide deaths were more than double those due to homicides in 2015,...

UK Legislators Asked to Increase Oversight and Criminal Accountability in U.S. Owned For-Profit Behavioral Hospitals

by CCHR Florida | Nov 5, 2019 | Acadia, Baker Act, ECT, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Universal Health Services

Hundreds of UK legislators have been sent a White Paper on Fraud and Abuse in the UK’s for-profit behavioral industry, calling for tighter oversight and accountability of facilities owned by U.S companies, Acadia Healthcare and Universal Health Services (UHS). The...

A Warning that cannot be ignored: Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence CCHR calls for Urgent Government Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Aug 14, 2019 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

The spate of recent mass shootings has prompted the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) to reiterate the urgent need for State and a Federal government investigation into the irrefutable link between psychotropic drugs and...

CCHR Says Psychiatrists Got it Wrong on Electroshock ‘Treatment’ in Wall Street Journal

by CCHR Florida | Jul 2, 2019 | ECT, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatrists’ misleading claims could deny consumers evidence of ECT’s real damage, inducing suicide By Jan Eastgate President, CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog July 2, 2019 In a requested statement provided to The Wall Street...

CCHR Warns About Antidepressant “Nasal Spray,” Esketamine (Spravato), Use on Veterans

by CCHR Florida | Jun 26, 2019 | Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog June 26, 2019 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is concerned that President Trump is being misled about a nasal spray depression drug, esketamine (Spravato) being the answer to...

CCHR Says Federal and State Investigations Needed into Soaring Psychotropic Drug Use, Suicides and Violence

by CCHR Florida | Jun 26, 2019 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In the wake of recent reports of suicide increases, the mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) urges Congress and state governments to implement greater oversight of soaring psychotropic drug prescribing...

CCHR Calls FDA Approval of Psychotropics & Electroshock a Colossal Conflict of Interest

by CCHR Florida | Mar 6, 2019 | ECT

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...

Hundreds Tour the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Traveling Exhibit in Miami

by CCHR Florida | Oct 25, 2018 | ECT, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

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...

CCHR’s “Psychiatric Drugs Create Violence & Suicide” Report—a Wakeup Call on Mass Violence

by CCHR Florida | Sep 5, 2018 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & 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...

Are PTSD Suicides Connected to Psychiatric Drug Treatment?

by CCHR Florida | Jun 7, 2018 | Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

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...

Study Reports that Suicide Risk Assessments May Increase the Risk of Suicide

by CCHR Florida | Feb 13, 2018 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide & Violence

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...

CCHR Florida To Host International Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration

by CCHR Florida | Feb 13, 2018 | Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

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...