by CCHR National Affairs Office | Mar 17, 2022
Researchers found patients may be unable to bear the withdrawal symptoms and so give up on discontinuation, resulting in a growing number of long-term users. A new study finds no clear guidance for doctors in tapering or discontinuing antidepressants, leaving their...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Mar 10, 2022
Research finds no proof of any brain disorder that antidepressants and electroshock supposedly target and no proof of any lasting benefit to patients from them. A recent review of evidence found that the two main physical treatments recommended for depression,...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Feb 10, 2022
Equitable treatment for African Americans after the war was thwarted by the racist theories actively promoted by psychiatrists and psychologists. At the end of the Civil War, the institution of slavery had been abolished, and during the Reconstruction era from...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 27, 2022
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27. Psychiatrists’ key role in conceiving and administering mass murder should not be ignored. While not the first genocide in history, the Holocaust was unique because it was physicians in Germany who took the lead...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 17, 2022
Warrior-type training conditions law enforcement officers to fear the people they serve, putting Blacks at greater risk of deadly force, critics say. Recent high-profile police shootings of African Americans have brought to light the controversial psychological...
