by CCHR CO | Jun 7, 2011 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
State Audit Finds Lack of Documentation Supporting Involuntary Drugging Of Patients Patients in the state psychiatric facilities at Pueblo and Fort Logan were drugged against their will without sufficient documentation to justify the action, according to an audit...
by CCHR CO | May 11, 2011 | General News
Risk Of Potentially Deadly Side Effects For Dementia Patients An investigation by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that nursing homes are giving many elderly residents powerful antipsychotic drugs that put their...
by CCHR CO | May 1, 2011 | Military in Colorado/Wyoming
More U.S. military personnel than ever before are taking psychiatric drugs that are linked to suicides. And more of them than ever before are killing themselves. In fact, more troops are dying by their own hand than in combat, according to an Army report issued last...
by CCHR CO | Oct 30, 2010 | News for Colorado
Colorado’s top Medicaid prescriber of drugs at the center of a U.S. senator’s probe into fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid system billed nearly $1.1 million in 2008 and 2009 for 1,304 prescriptions written on four expensive antipsychotic drugs, according to data...
