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  • Published on February 12, 2020 - 06:16 GMT

    The Risky Business of Foster Youth Drugged in For-Profit Behavioral Hospitals

    Legislation is needed to curb the placement of foster youths in for-profit psychiatric facilities LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 11, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Legislation introduced in Oregon calls for better oversight of for-profit behavioral hospitals where foster children have been chemically and physically restrained.[1] It’s a measure that Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR), a mental health industry watchdog applauds and has argued for since 2015 when it …

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  • Published on February 5, 2020 - 05:55 GMT

    Renewed Psychedelic Drug Research is a Bad “Trip” for Mental Health

    Current research into psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental disorders is heading in a dangerous “Brave New World” direction LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 4, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- A psychiatric drugs side effects online database may soon add hallucinogenic drugs to warn consumers of the drugs’ mind-manipulative history and risk of inducing violent and psychotic behavior. The mental health industry watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International’s (CCHR) …

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  • Published on January 29, 2020 - 06:05 GMT

    School Seclusion & Restraint Ban Should Extend to Psychiatric Facilities

    Legislators call for ban on seclusion rooms/restraint use on schoolchildren, but CCHR says it must extend to physical/chemical restraint use in psych facilities LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 28, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- U.S. senators and 10 members of the House of Representatives, all but one from Illinois, have called for a nationwide ban on the use of seclusion and physical restraints on students. They’ve asked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to issue federal guidance to prohibit …

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  • Published on January 21, 2020 - 23:05 GMT

    African American Minister Fights for Protections Against Mental Health Abuse

    Rev. Frederick Shaw reminds African Americans of the mental health industry’s history of stigmatizing them LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 21, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- As the country celebrates the remarkable life of Martin Luther King, Rev. Frederick Shaw, a spokesperson for the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International and president of the NAACP Inglewood-South Bay chapter, points to King’s quote about our children needing our presence. “This is …

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  • Published on January 15, 2020 - 01:19 GMT

    Concerns Raised Over School Mental Health Screening and Psychotropic Drugs

    Harmful mental health assessments, evaluations, and programs in our schools can lead to increase in psychiatric drug use linked to causing suicide and violence LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 14, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Invasive, subjective mental health screening of schoolchildren is sweeping the nation with governments ignoring the potential harmful impact of this, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) has documented. Behavioral screening can often lead to …

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  • Published on January 7, 2020 - 13:00 GMT

    UN Demands NZ Child Electroshock Torture Investigation; US FDA Fails to Ban it

    The use of “electrocution” devices for behavior modification is condemned by the UN, but NZ and the US FDA have notoriously failed to protect children from them LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 7, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The United Nations Committee Against Torture has condemned New Zealand officials’ failure to fully investigate and prosecute the use of electroshock for behavior modification of children, describing the practice as torture. On December 27, 2019, the UN issued a report …

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  • Published on December 30, 2019 - 13:00 GMT

    2020 Should Launch Zero Tolerance on Psychotropic Drugging of Foster Youth

    After inadequate government assurances to track and curb psychiatric drugging of foster youth, CCHR says its time for a zero tolerance policy on their use LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, December 30, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- This year highlighted the ongoing psychotropic drugging of foster care children and adolescents despite a decade of exposure of the risks of these drugs, according to Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International. The group says 2020 should be the year to launch a …

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  • Published on December 23, 2019 - 13:00 GMT

    CCHR Calls for Adoption of Mental Health Human Rights Declaration in 2020

    Psychiatric abuses and human rights violations occur around the world. New decade needs to ring in changes and humane care, watchdog says LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, December 23, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is a 50-year mental health watchdog responsible for more than 185 laws worldwide that protect mental health patients from abuse. Until the group’s formation in 1969, the inequity in the mental health system and laws meant patients could be …

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  • Published on December 18, 2019 - 06:52 GMT

    Watchdog Warns of 2020 Brave New World Australian and US Mental Health Agenda

    Behavioral screening of 0-5 year olds, psychotropic drugging of children, pre-drugging kids to “prevent” mental disorders form a dangerous agenda, CCHR cautions LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, December 17, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- While the United States unfortunately leads the world in labeling its children with mental disorders and drugging them, Australia seems determined to take over the dishonorable title, according to mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights …

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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. We work to ensure patient and consumer protections are enacted and upheld as there is rampant abuse in the field of mental health. In this role, CCHR has helped to enact more than 180 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive mental health practices since it was formed over 50 years ago.

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