by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 16, 2021
Suicide prevention groups should include antidepressants as a suicide risk factor, as research confirms the link to suicidal thoughts and actions in children. Since 2004, the FDA has required a black box label on antidepressants to warn of the increased risk of...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 9, 2021
Consumers have a right to know that antidepressants can cause suicidal thoughts and actions. Without knowing this, they cannot make fully informed decisions. After decades of research showing the link between antidepressants and suicide, and even after the FDA...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 1, 2021
Putting patients’ sanity at risk of unpredictable and dangerous effects of psychedelics is a last-ditch attempt to salvage the failing field of psychiatry. Psychiatrists may see the use of psychedelic drugs like LSD (“acid”) and psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”) as a new...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Aug 11, 2021
The incident exemplifies the human rights abuses and coercive practices found in psychiatric hospitals, as stated in reports by the World Health Organization. A homeless man arrested for a crime he didn’t commit was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for more than...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Aug 5, 2021
WHO cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental health treatments, including forced drugging, restraints, and electroshock. CCHR co-founder, psychatrist and humanitarian Thomas Szasz, M.D., said, “The most important deprivation of...
