by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 14, 2025
A new article in Health and Human Rights Journal calls for an approach to mental health in which every aspect of it and its determinants is endowed with respect for, and the realization of, human rights. A new perspective article calls for a more comprehensive, human...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 7, 2025
Research indicates psychiatric confinements against a person’s will have been increasing at three times the rate of the increase in population. Investigations and U.S. Justice Department complaints have alleged that patients have been held and their insurance billed...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 10, 2024
New research provides additional evidence that off-label prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for elderly patients with dementia is not effective in reducing behavioral symptoms and exposes them to risks of serious side effects. Antipsychotic drugs significantly...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 4, 2024
International human rights standards call for human rights-based approaches in the field of mental health. Citizens Commission on Human Rights is working to make those rights a reality through the promotion of the Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights. The...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Nov 27, 2024
New study finds requests made under Massachusetts law to transport people against their will for psychiatric evaluation were made by health professionals who had not seen the individuals who were the subject of their requests, and those individuals were...
