by CCHR CO | Aug 5, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Denver area psychiatrist Howard Weiss has been indicted on 120 federal charges that include allegations he prescribed higher doses of psychiatric drugs without trying lower doses or alternative treatments first. At least one of his patients died of an overdose,...
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 | Jan 12, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Police officers arriving at a Colorado Springs psychiatric facility Saturday night in response to a report of juvenile runaways were asked by staff to help them gain control of the facility from “rioting” patients who were “overtaking” them. Officers were initially...
by CCHR CO | Dec 23, 2020 | General News
Note: The rising number of COVID-19 cases nationwide has generated alarming and self-serving predictions from the psychiatric industry about a potentially devastating mental health crisis in the making, along with a wave of urgent calls for huge increases in...
by CCHR CO | Jan 8, 2018 | General News
The Lakewood teen charged in the fatal stabbing of a Longmont woman on November 18 reportedly had been receiving mental health treatment at the time of the incident. Aiden von Grabow, 15, charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 19-year-old Makayla...