by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 30, 2021
Millions of Americans are prescribed psychiatric drugs, but with no best practices for discontinuing the drugs, withdrawal symptoms can be severe. While Congress and government agencies are giving much attention to making treatment more widely available for opioid and...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 23, 2021
Human rights group calls on the Veterans Administration to add website warnings about the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions from antidepressants. Of the 46,510 American adults who committed suicide in 2018, one in seven was a U.S. military veteran,...
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...
