Number of U.S. Children Taking Psychiatric Drugs
ADHD Drugs 0-17 Years 3,155,441 0-5 Years 58,091 Age Breakdown: 0-1 Years 310
Paris Hilton, Congress Praised for Teen Behavioral Treatment …
Dec 27, 2024 · Congress passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton, and supported by CCHR. The law sets a precedent for future protections for youth from psychiatric-behavioral restraints and other abuses, using strong oversight measures.
CCHR Demands Justice for Victims of Psychiatric Fraud and Patient ...
Oct 4, 2024 · The mental health watchdog says recent legislation improving oversight of youth behavioral facilities offers national hope, but warns that psychiatric hospitals involved in harm and fraud are evading justice through “no liability” deals.
About Us - CCHR International
Mission Statement: The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. We work to ensure patient and consumer protections are enacted and upheld as there is rampant abuse in the field of mental health.
Number of People Taking Psychiatric Drugs in the United States
Antidepressants . All Ages — 45,204,771 Age Breakdown: 0-1 Years — 7,811 2-3 Years — 12,137 4-5 Years — 18,911
The Collapse of Electroshock: ECT’s Brain-Damaging and Torturous ...
Aug 23, 2024 · Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan EastgatePresident, CCHR InternationalAugust 23, 2024 CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago,
CCHR Asks Whistleblowers to Report Mental Health Hospital …
Apr 12, 2024 · The watchdog group points to the estimated $8 billion in annual mental health fraud, including in for-profit behavioral facilities, revealing how they exploit insurance by keeping patients hospitalized for financial gain.
Psychiatric Drugs: School Shootings And Other Acts Of Senseless ...
Read CCHR’s fully documented report Psychiatric Drugs: Create Violence & Suicide—School Shootings and Other Acts of Senseless Violence . Do psychiatric drugs play a role in school shootings and other senseless acts of violence? Although there can be numerous reasons for mass murder, violent crime, and suicide, with just as many solutions proposed to curb it and funding poured into its ...
Helsinki Medical Code Allows Coerced Research on Mental Health …
Nov 1, 2024 · Watchdog says the recently updated “Declaration of Helsinki” Medical Research Code reinforces experiments on unconsenting mental health patients, a practice the group warns violates the Nuremberg Code and promotes coercion. By CCHR InternationalThe Mental Health Industry WatchdogNovember 1, 2024 The World Medical Association (WMA) has unanimously approved new guidelines on informed consent ...
CCHR Seeks Redress for Those Forcibly Held and Harmed in …
Sep 5, 2024 · “The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down facilities with repeated violations, and ensuring compensation for patients harmed by forced treatment—including those subjected to involuntary detainment.