by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 5, 2024
Notable New York City activists speak at opening of Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ exhibit exposing sordid history of harmful psychiatric practices still in use today. The exhibit runs at Union Square in New York City through May 9. Citizens Commission on Human...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 4, 2024
Citizens Commission on Human Rights calls on APA to end the use of lucrative but dangerous coercive treatment and electroshock. CCHR’s exhibit in New York City through May 9 exposes grievous harm that psychiatric practices have caused patients. Scores of protesters...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 1, 2024
How antipsychotic drugs are used is challenged by research reporting on the negative effect on patients’ sense of self and on the possibility of worse social functioning and quality of life from long-term use for some patients. Citizens Commission on Human Rights...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Apr 23, 2024
Hospital records and coroners’ reports often record deaths linked to prescription drugs as due to natural or unknown causes, rather than from the adverse effects of the drugs – especially psychiatric drug-related deaths, a leading researcher says. Citizens Commission...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Apr 18, 2024
Mental health watchdog also calls for laws requiring toxicology testing for psychiatric drugs for perpetrators of mass shootings and other serious violent crimes so the full extent of the risk of violence from antidepressants can be known. As the 25th anniversary of...
