by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 4, 2021
New study is latest to question current high rates of antidepressant prescribing in light of growing evidence of the drugs’ ineffectiveness and risks of harm. An examination of coroner inquests in which the decedents used antidepressants revealed that about half of...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 28, 2021
Excerpt from the CCHR Colorado article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails to Fully Admit Psychiatry’s Racial Human Rights Abuses and Role in Creating Racism” The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 30, 2020
Excerpted from Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado article, “Psychiatric Industry Aims to Profit from Racism, Targets African Americans” Rev. Fred Shaw, Jr., founder of Task Force Against Psychiatric Racism and Modern Day Eugenics In response to the...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 30, 2020
Excerpted from the website of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado, www.CCHRColorado.org. While many Americans see the recent racial tension in this country as an opportunity to address the issue of racial injustice, the psychiatric-pharmaceutical...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Nov 5, 2020
Many believe electroshock was banned long ago, but the controversial treatment is still done today despite the dangers. As healthcare systems around the country have been stretched to the limit, first by the opioid crisis and now COVID-19, many hospital treatments are...
