by CCHR CO | Aug 13, 2021 | General News
WHO cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental health treatments, including forced drugging, restraints, and electroshock. By Citizens Commission on Human Rights, National Affairs Office New guidelines for mental health services...
by CCHR CO | Jan 23, 2021 | General News
The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism understates psychiatry’s racial human rights abuses and its long history of instigating racism by providing “rationales” that justified and perpetuated it. Over the last...
by CCHR CO | Nov 5, 2016 | News for Colorado
A study recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine concluded that antidepressants double the risk of events leading to suicide and violence in adults with no signs of any mental disorder. As the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has...
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 | Dec 4, 2014 | News for Colorado
A Fort Collins teen accused of stealing an ambulance on November 2, fleeing in it to Loveland and then crashing the vehicle was reportedly in possession of Adderall, a psych drug with the known side effects of delusions, mania and aggression. According to the Fort...