by CCHR CO | Dec 19, 2016 | General News
A new report from researchers analyzing psychiatric drug use in the U.S. in 2013 has added to already existing concerns that older Americans are being overdrugged. It also suggests that many Americans may be taking psychiatric drugs because they have become drug...
by CCHR CO | Oct 17, 2016 | General News, News for Colorado
A psychiatrist involved in the legal actions related to the shootings at Columbine High School and the Aurora Century theater has concluded that psychiatric drugs were the main contributing factor in both mass murders. Peter Breggin, M.D., a Harvard-trained...
by CCHR CO | May 18, 2016 | General News, News for Colorado
Coloradans joined concerned citizens from around the nation on May 14 in a march organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) to protest the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent push to get the FDA to approve electroshock (ECT) for children...
by CCHR CO | Mar 7, 2016 | General News, News for Colorado
You would think a machine that shoots electricity into a person’s brain would have to be proven safe and effective and be approved by the FDA before it could be used. You’d be wrong. No formal tests have ever been conducted or required by the FDA to determine the...
by CCHR CO | Nov 12, 2015 | General News, Military in Colorado/Wyoming
Rising right along with the current epidemic of military suicides is the huge increase in the number of psychiatric drug prescriptions written for active military and veterans. Fact: Between 2005-2011, military prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased nearly...
by CCHR CO | Oct 9, 2015 | General News, News for Colorado, News for Wyoming
Fact: At least 35 school shootings and/or school-related acts of violence have been committed by those taking orwithdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in 169 wounded and 79 killed (in other school shootings, information about their drug use was never made...
