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 | 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 | Jun 30, 2015 | General News, News for Colorado
The first time they met, the psychiatrist who treated Aurora theater shooter James Holmes prescribed him psychiatric drugs linked to violence and homicide, even though Holmes openly admitted he was obsessively having thoughts of killing people. In fact, Holmes told...
by CCHR CO | Jan 6, 2013 | News for Colorado
In all the speculation about what is causing the recent wave of shootings, the one thing they have in common has been largely ignored when it should be receiving urgent attention: the shooters have received psychiatric treatment, which these days almost always means...
by CCHR CO | Dec 5, 2011 | General News
Federal lawmakers received two major reports last week on the troubling lack of oversight at the federal level of the prescribing of psychiatric drugs to two of our nation’s most vulnerable populations: foster children and the elderly in care facilities. A Government...
