by CCHR National Affairs Office | Oct 31, 2024
Recent research adds to medical literature indicating potential risks to newborns from pregnant women using antidepressants. Citizens Commission on Human Rights calls on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review the research and issue updated guidance. Many...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Oct 16, 2024
Decades after sexual dysfunction caused by antidepressants was first reported to persist after patients stopped taking the drugs, how many people experience continuing sexual problems is still not known. Citizens Commission on Human Rights calls on the FDA to address...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Oct 9, 2024
A protest by Citizens Commission on Human Rights and disability rights organizations calls public attention to an electric shock device used at a Massachusetts school for autistic and disabled students. The United Nations calls its use torture, and the FDA has...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 15, 2024
Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ exhibit exposes the history to the present day of harmful and racist practices in the mental health system that constitute human rights violations, and calls for laws to ban harmful practices, in line with international human...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 4, 2024
Involuntary commitments to psychiatric facilities have increased over the last decade. Evidence indicates many are unlawful detainments, but facilities bill patients and their insurance providers. A disturbing new exposé, published in the New York Times,...