Free Baker Act Help - Call Us: 800-782-2878 info@cchrflorida.org
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR
  • THE BAKER ACT
  • ECT
  • Suicide & Violence
  • News
  • Events
  • Donate
  • Report Abuse
Select Page
For-profit Psychiatric Hospitals Rake in Millions While Under Investigation for Fraud

For-profit Psychiatric Hospitals Rake in Millions While Under Investigation for Fraud

by CCHR Florida | Mar 26, 2017 | Baker Act, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Universal Health Services

For-profit psychiatric hospitals have continued cheating taxpayers and abusing government programs with fraudulent billing practices. At the same time they are piling up record profits, these facilities deliver terrible service to patients and create a dangerous...
Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

by CCHR Florida | Mar 16, 2017 | Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health legislation in Florida? Obviously, Floridians love to help. Most all of us would stop and assist a lost child, happily provide food to hungry veterans or provide holiday gifts to families in need. Seemingly it is...
Baker Act Harms Elderly with Dementia and Alzheimer's

Baker Act Harms Elderly with Dementia and Alzheimer's

by CCHR Florida | Mar 1, 2017 | Baker Act, Elderly, Rights

The Baker Act, a Florida law which allows judges, law enforcement officers, doctors and mental health officials to initiate a process to involuntarily institutionalize those exhibiting mental illness is especially dangerous for the elderly. If an older person suffers...
Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

Psychotic Behavior Created Artificially

by CCHR Florida | Feb 1, 2017 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Our police officers are on the front line of any disturbance in the social fiber, including handling those who appear mentally ill. An unstable individual with a deadly weapon can be formidable and unpredictable. But how many violent people are also mentally ill? An...
Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

by CCHR Florida | Jan 27, 2017 | Alternatives, ECT, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health legislation in Florida? Obviously, Floridians love to help. Most all of us would stop and assist a lost child, happily provide food to hungry veterans or provide holiday gifts to families in need. Seemingly it is...
The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

While some have linked school shootings to “lack of mental health services” and hint that there would be fewer such incidents if people were under the watchful eye of mental health specialists, the true facts are either buried or obscured. A recent Fox News report...
For-profit Psychiatric Hospitals Rake in Millions While Under Investigation for Fraud

Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Universal Health Services

“Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits.” [1] That is how Rosalind Adams, BuzzFeed News Reporter, headlined her article written after a year-long...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Five more people have lost their lives to an out of control man under the care of a psychiatrist. Arcan Cetin had been diagnosed with ADHD, depression and autism. Records show that doctors were gravely concerned about their patient. [1] Unfortunately this concern was...
Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, psychiatrists report he has “treatment-resistant depression”. This patient is then a prime candidate for any experimental lunacy that the profession dreams up because the poor...
Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The “Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health” [1] calls for a massive expansion by the federal government for the funding and development of more psychiatric mental health treatment for Americans. The agenda statement runs over 5,000 words and cites 25 references from...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

Baton Rouge Cop Killer on Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | Aug 13, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Was Baton Rouge cop killer Gavin Long protesting police brutality by murdering three policemen, or was it yet another result of psychiatric drug side effects? This young veteran told his relatives and friends that he had post-traumatic stress disorder, and according...
Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

3 Terrorists On Psychiatric Treatment = 94 Dead In 10 Days

by CCHR Florida | Aug 4, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence

  In the span of 10 days three horrific terror incidents were carried out in Europe by killers who had previously received psychiatric treatment. 84 Dead in Nice, France On July 14, 2016 during a Bastille Day holiday celebration, 31 year old Mohamed Lahouaiej...
Drugging Native American Kids: Big Money Maker in South Dakota

Drugging Native American Kids: Big Money Maker in South Dakota

by CCHR Florida | Jul 25, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has teamed up with psychiatrists and drug manufacturers in what has been called a “genocide-for-profit” scheme. Native American children are being removed from their homes, placed into foster care homes...
Psychiatric Drugs and the Baker Acting of Minors

Psychiatric Drugs and the Baker Acting of Minors

by CCHR Florida | Jul 16, 2016 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

The Baker Acting of minors is controversial. Many parents have been devastated when their child was taken from school without their knowledge and held for examination in a mental health facility in Florida. Some children have been Baker Acted for displaying typical...
Children on Ritalin: Long Term Effects

Children on Ritalin: Long Term Effects

by CCHR Florida | Jun 22, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Seeing as psychiatrists have been drugging children with Ritalin since the 1970s, some long term effects have now been studied and confirmed. Psychiatrist and whistle blower Peter Breggin reports these possible tragic outcomes for the victim of long term Ritalin use:...
Page 9 of 19« First« Prev...7891011...Next »Last »

Archives

Categories

  • Acadia (5)
  • Alternatives (126)
  • Ask CCHR Series (13)
  • Baker Act (131)
  • Baker Act – Featured (1)
  • Baker Act – Find Out More button (11)
  • Children and Teens (301)
  • Continuing Education (8)
  • Disabled Persons (20)
  • DSM (75)
  • ECT (59)
  • Elderly (38)
  • Foster Care (1)
  • Fraud (128)
  • Legislation (46)
  • Mass Violence (36)
  • Mental Health Screening (221)
  • Mental Illness (228)
  • Military & Veterans (33)
  • Parental Rights (41)
  • Psychiatric Abuse (356)
  • Psychiatric Disorders (309)
  • Psychiatric Drugs (475)
  • Rights (259)
  • Sequel (3)
  • Suicide & Violence (107)
  • Uncategorized (5)
  • Universal Health Services (10)

Contact CCHR Florida

109 N. Fort Harrison Ave.
Clearwater, Florida 33755
Tel: 1-800-782-2878

CCHR Florida

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida is an award winning non-profit watchdog organization that investigates and exposes psychiatric abuse and educates the public about their rights in the field of mental health.

CCHR Florida provides only facts and does not provide medical or legal advice.

Our office recommends that an individual seek a competent medical examination by a non-psychiatric medical professional.

 

Awards

  • 2024 Bulldog PR Award GOLD Mental Health Human Rights: Protection of Children in the Best Issue/ Cause Advocacy Campaign
  • 2024 Bulldog PR Award SILVER Protecting Mental Health Human Rights: Coercive Psychiatry in the Best Issue/ Cause Advocacy Campaign
  • Two Awards - Digital Team of the Year and Cause-Related Campaign
    Two Awards - Digital Team of the Year and Cause-Related Campaign
  • Advocacy Campaign - Coercive Psychiatry
  • 2024 Impact Communication Awards: Activism – Coercive Psychiatry
    2024 Impact Communication Awards: Activism – Coercive Psychiatry
  • Media Relations Campaign Winner 2023
    Mental Health Human Rights: Protection of Children
  • Protecting Mental Health Human Rights: Coercive Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Human Rights: Parent & Child Rights
  • Social Responsibility: Parent & Child Rights
  • Social Responsibility - Parents' Bill of Rights Campaign 2022
    Social Responsibility: Parents' Bill of Rights

Contact CCHR Florida

109 N. Fort Harrison Ave.
Clearwater, Florida 33755
Tel: 1-800-782-2878

Free Help

800-782-2878

 

DONATE

 

© 2025 CCHR Florida. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
Newsletter Signup

SIGN UP FOR THE LATEST NEWS

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name*