by CCHR CO | Aug 8, 2017 | News for Colorado, You be the Judge...
A Boulder psychiatrist accused of overdrugging female inmates at the correctional facility where he worked – in some cases causing them to become delirious – has permanently surrendered his license to practice, under an agreement reached with the Colorado Medical...
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 | Dec 4, 2011 | General News
Citing the fact that foster children are given powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs at an alarming 13 times the rate of other children, ABC News rolled out a series of reports based on a year-long investigation into the use of these drugs – antidepressants,...
by CCHR CO | Aug 15, 2011 | News for Colorado
Colorado Ombudsman Warns Medicare/Medicaid Cuts Threaten Quality of Care Cuts in federal and state payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients provide yet another reason for monitoring the drugs given to a loved one in a nursing home or convalescent facility. Medicare...
by CCHR CO | Aug 19, 2010 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
Facility received 1,100 patient complaints in 2008-09, reported 11 patient deaths in 2009 Another person has died while in the custody of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP), according to the Denver...
