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What is CCHR Florida?

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida (CCHR) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric human rights violations.

CCHR Florida also educates Americans about their mental health rights, including the right to informed consent.

CCHR Florida works side-by-side with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to stop abuses in the field of mental health. Many non-profit organizations and individuals are concerned about the excesses and harmful practices of psychiatry.

Together, we have formed a strong movement that is especially active to help protect the rights of children.

We invite you to join our efforts to bring compassion and decency to the field of mental health.

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“Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.”
– Dr. Thomas Szasz,
Co-Founder CCHR

Latest news

Florida Cuts Funds, Mental Health Experts Cry Foul

by CCHR August 21, 2017 11:08 am

When $20.4 million in federal funding for mental health services in Florida expired recently, those tied directly to this tax-payer funded care began a predictable and loud outcry. Stacey Cook-Hawk, CEO of ...

Florida Cuts Funds, Mental Health Experts Cry Foul

by CCHR August 21, 2017 11:08 am

When $20.4 million in federal funding for mental health services in Florida ...

Florida Supreme Court Opens The Door For Potential Flood Of Psychiatric Damage Lawsuits

by CCHR August 21, 2017 11:04 am

For too long, victims of psychiatric abuse in Florida have suffered in ...

Psychiatry Continues To Rip Off Florida Medicare System

by CCHR July 23, 2017 4:27 pm

According to the United States Department of Justice, our Federal government continues ...

Psychiatry Attempts New Screening Tool For Adult ADHD

by CCHR July 23, 2017 4:13 pm

A new tool to screen adults with ADHD has been created. Interestingly, ...

Autism and Antidepressants

by CCHR July 17, 2017 2:56 pm

Per Merriam Webster, autism is “a variable developmental disorder that appears by ...

Psychiatric Drugs Behind Teen Tragedy

by CCHR July 17, 2017 2:49 pm

There is no argument that Michelle Carter urged her 18 year old ...

New Florida Law Makes Giant Leap Forward To Secure Rights Of Children

by CCHR June 29, 2017 11:24 am

CLEARWATER, FL. June 27, 2017 – Acting as a strong voice working ...

Ketamine: Club Drug And Rapist Tool Now Psychiatric Drug For Depression

by CCHR June 29, 2017 1:25 am

Ketamine, a drug that distorts perceptions wildly, is currently being considered by ...

Mental Health Funding In Florida: Why Floridians Should Not Support the Fraud

by CCHR June 4, 2017 2:59 pm

Lately Floridians have been subject to accusations of “Florida does not support ...

Psychiatric Drugs Replaced by a Walk in the Woods?

by CCHR June 4, 2017 2:47 pm

The American Psychiatric Association recently approached the subject in an article called ...

Another Creative Artist Killed by Psychoactive Drugs: Chris Cornell’s Wife Blames Suicide On Antianxiety Medication Ativan (Lorazepam)

by CCHR May 22, 2017 10:55 am

Initial evidence points to the anti-anxiety medicine Ativan as the cause for ...

ECT: Psychiatric Abuse of Elderly Patients

by CCHR May 22, 2017 10:50 am

Why do psychiatrists increasingly treat the elderly with electro convulsive therapy (ECT)? ...

Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

by CCHR April 27, 2017 1:15 pm

The primary product of psychiatry seems to be an increase in the ...

Crocodile Tears: Florida Mental Health Begs More University Funds

by CCHR April 11, 2017 11:38 am

In a bid to gain more taxpayer money, University System of Florida ...

Florida Airport Shooter: Another Example of Psychiatric Drug Induced Violence?

by CCHR April 11, 2017 11:23 am

Esteban Santiago checked in a single bag holding a handgun when ...

Mental Health Funding – Propping up a Fraudulent System

by CCHR March 26, 2017 8:14 pm

PR men hired by pharmaceutical companies and psychiatric vested interests have created ...

For-profit Psychiatric Hospitals Rake in Millions While Under Investigation for Fraud

by CCHR March 26, 2017 8:07 pm

For-profit psychiatric hospitals have continued cheating taxpayers and abusing government programs with ...

Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

by CCHR March 16, 2017 4:51 pm

What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health ...

CCHR Files over 2,300 Complaints on Psychiatric Abuse in Florida

by CCHR March 16, 2017 4:45 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental ...

Baker Act Harms Elderly with Dementia and Alzheimer’s

by CCHR March 1, 2017 7:24 pm

The Baker Act, a Florida law which allows judges, law enforcement officers, ...

CCHR Educates Over 146,000 Families on Their Rights Under the Baker Act

by CCHR February 17, 2017 6:37 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental ...

Psychiatrists’ Bible Goes Too Far in Naming Disorders

by CCHR February 17, 2017 6:32 pm

DSM 5, (the fifth and most recent version of the Diagnostic and ...

CCHR Demands Investigation into Involuntary Psychiatric Examination of Children

by CCHR February 7, 2017 3:41 am

The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit dedicated to ...

Psychiatric Goofs: Physical Conditions Mimicking Mental Disorders

by CCHR February 7, 2017 3:34 am

Florida law currently requires that anyone sent for an involuntary psychiatric ...

CCHR Hosts Child Advocacy Event to Honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day

by CCHR February 1, 2017 10:10 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a ...

Psychotic Behavior Created Artificially

by CCHR February 1, 2017 9:58 pm

Our police officers are on the front line of any disturbance in ...

CCHR Demands Investigation into Involuntary Psychiatric Examination of Children

by CCHR January 27, 2017 6:16 pm

The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit dedicated to ...

Mental Health Legislation: Good-Hearted People Swayed by Vested Interests

by CCHR January 27, 2017 6:03 pm

What is at the heart of a new demand for mental health ...

Systematic Abuse in Florida UHS Facilities Brought To Light By Investigation

by CCHR January 23, 2017 4:13 pm

Are UHS Psychiatric Facilities in Florida Motivated by Profit? In a word, ...

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The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

by CCHR January 23, 2017 3:59 pm

While some have linked school shootings to “lack of mental health services” ...

Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

by CCHR December 19, 2016 5:45 am

“Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of ...

Seattle Mall Shooter was on Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR December 19, 2016 5:38 am

Five more people have lost their lives to an out of control ...

Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

by CCHR December 1, 2016 6:54 pm

When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, ...

ECT: Documented Dangers

by CCHR December 1, 2016 6:02 pm

ECT is in the news again, with vested interests pushing this barbaric ...

Why Even the FDA Was Forced to Admit ECT Machines are High Risk

by CCHR November 17, 2016 6:16 pm

ECT Victims Speak Out Almost 6 years ago the FDA explored whether ...

21st Century Cures Act – Hidden Dangers

by CCHR November 17, 2016 5:58 pm

The 21st Century Cures Act has a decent purpose to help those ...

Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

by CCHR November 2, 2016 7:11 pm

The “Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health” [1] calls for a massive expansion ...

14-Year Old Child Commits Suicide While On Prozac

by CCHR October 1, 2016 1:32 am

Jake Lynch, a healthy 14 year old British child was diagnosed with ...

Tweaking Crime Rate Numbers Through Baker Act Abuse?

by CCHR October 1, 2016 1:29 am

We cringe when the crime rates soar in our city and rejoice ...

Big Pharma Hides Antidepressant Trial Suicides

by CCHR September 18, 2016 5:43 pm

Whether teen suicide and anti-depressant drugs are related has been presented as ...

New Study: Exercise Can Cure Depression & ADHD In Children

by CCHR September 18, 2016 5:41 pm

Dr. Gregory Ramey is a pediatric psychologist and the executive director for ...

Psychiatrists Complain They Get No Respect – Stats Prove It!

by CCHR September 2, 2016 2:05 am

Echoing 1970s comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s iconic one-liner, psychiatrists are complaining that they ...

The Link Between Teen Suicide and Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR September 2, 2016 2:04 am

Suicide is the leading cause of death for children age 15 to ...

Baton Rouge Cop Killer on Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR August 13, 2016 6:59 pm

Was Baton Rouge cop killer Gavin Long protesting police brutality by murdering ...

Teen Suicide: Psychiatric Drug Crime

by CCHR August 13, 2016 6:49 pm

Family and friends were devastated earlier this year when teenager Ritu Sachdeva ...

3 Terrorists On Psychiatric Treatment = 94 Dead In 10 Days

by CCHR August 4, 2016 4:55 am

In the span of 10 days three horrific terror incidents were ...

7 Year-old Gets Involuntarily Committed for School Tantrum

by CCHR August 4, 2016 4:50 am

Unbelievable as it sounds, grade school kids in Florida are being involuntarily ...

CCHR Demands Investigation into Link between Antidepressants and Teen Suicides

by CCHR July 27, 2016 8:07 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog ...

Antidepressants Double Suicide Risks in Teens

by CCHR July 25, 2016 3:27 am

Policy makers in Florida are concerned by the rising rate of youth ...

Drugging Native American Kids: Big Money Maker in South Dakota

by CCHR July 25, 2016 1:40 am

The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has teamed up with ...

Psychiatric Drug Industry in Trouble

by CCHR July 16, 2016 7:35 pm

Considering that twenty percent of Americans are taking psychiatric drugs, it may ...

Psychiatric Drugs and the Baker Acting of Minors

by CCHR July 16, 2016 7:25 pm

The Baker Acting of minors is controversial. Many parents have been devastated ...

CCHR Calling for Investigation of Link Between Suicides and Psychiatric Treatment

by CCHR July 14, 2016 2:31 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog ...

Museum Targeting Psychiatry as an “Industry of Death” Helping to Expose Rights Violations in Florida

by CCHR June 29, 2016 5:06 pm

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog ...

Handcuffs and Police Cars Terrorize Florida School Kids

by CCHR June 22, 2016 8:05 pm

The Baker Act is the mental health law or the state of ...

Children on Ritalin: Long Term Effects

by CCHR June 22, 2016 8:05 pm

Seeing as psychiatrists have been drugging children with Ritalin since the 1970s, ...

Sandy Hook Shooter’s Psychiatrist Arrested

by CCHR June 14, 2016 9:05 pm

On December 14th 2012 Adam Lanza attacked students and adults at Sandy ...

Using Opioids Can Cause Depression

by CCHR June 14, 2016 7:15 pm

According to a new study conducted by Jeffrey Scherrer, an associate professor ...

Teen Suicides Increasing Due to Mental Health Treatment

by CCHR June 8, 2016 1:01 am

Mental health experts claim they need more money to stem the rising ...

Why the Secrecy? Was Oregon Shooter on Psychiatric Drugs?

by CCHR June 7, 2016 9:00 pm

Signs clearly point to Oregon community college (Umpqua Community College) shooter Christopher ...

Is there An Antidepressant / Autism Link?

by CCHR April 24, 2016 7:29 pm

A new study shows a connection between women who take antidepressants in ...

Dangerous Trend: Antidepressant Use In Children Soaring

by CCHR April 24, 2016 5:55 pm

The number of children prescribed antidepressants is on a steep upward trend. ...

Mass Shooting Incident Averted

by CCHR April 17, 2016 7:02 pm

Brad Kenneth Bartelt, charged recently with “aggravated assault, terroristic threatening, possession of ...

Psychiatrists Say Being Neurotic is Great – Now You’re a Creative Genius!

by CCHR April 17, 2016 5:06 pm

Psychiatrists like to promote the idea that we’re all capable of going ...

Baker Acting 7 year-olds

by CCHR March 15, 2016 1:42 am

Florida’s mental health law, the Baker Act, gives law enforcement the right ...

Brain Damage Caused By ECT

by CCHR March 14, 2016 9:49 pm

Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, “works” by creating an intense seizure or convulsion ...

Psychologists Exposed as Key Players in U.S. Torture Programs

by CCHR March 6, 2016 6:55 pm

The American Psychological Association states that “Our mission is to advance the ...

Psychiatric Child Abuse

by CCHR February 27, 2016 2:41 am

Psychiatrist Peter Breggin asserts the psychiatric drugging of children is nothing but ...

Paxil’s Recipe For Success: Fraudulent Study & False Claims

by CCHR February 27, 2016 2:07 am

A report on the drug trial results for the antidepressant drug Paxil ...

Involuntary Commitment of Children on Faulty Diagnosis

by CCHR February 20, 2016 12:14 am

The newest version of the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual – the ...

ADHD Medications a Popular College High

by CCHR February 19, 2016 11:53 pm

Is it any surprise that drugs to treat supposed psychiatric disorders are ...

Baker Act Relies On Faulty DSM Diagnostic System

by CCHR February 12, 2016 10:44 pm

With new bills proposing some scary, expansive changes to the Baker Act ...

The Danger of Psychiatric Diagnoses

by CCHR February 12, 2016 9:28 pm

Psychiatric diagnoses have entered the vernacular, giving an easy way to explain ...

Antidepressants and Violence: The Clear Connection

by CCHR February 5, 2016 1:53 am

The idea that antidepressants cause violent behavior has been a concern for ...

Mental Disorder or Physical Illness?

by CCHR February 5, 2016 1:50 am

There can be grave danger in psychiatric evaluation and diagnosis. For instance, ...

Abuse And Attacks In Florida’s Mental Hospitals

by CCHR January 20, 2016 2:25 am

In June of 2014, twenty-seven year old Tuarus McNair, a mental patient ...

Risperdal: Another Psychiatric Drug Ruining Lives

by CCHR January 20, 2016 12:32 am

Risperdal is one of the so-called second generation antipsychotic drugs, touted to ...

Infants Being Given Psychiatric Drugs On The Rise

by CCHR December 30, 2015 8:53 pm

Psychiatric drug prescriptions for infants age 2 and younger have been rising ...

Psychiatry: Diagnosis Without Testing

by CCHR December 30, 2015 8:40 pm

For some reason, the standards for mental health practitioners are different from ...

Terrorists on Psych Drugs: Mass Shooters on a Grand Scale

by CCHR December 6, 2015 5:50 pm

What do many terrorists and school shooters in the US have in ...

Psychiatrists Still Love Their Electroconvulsive Therapy

by CCHR November 25, 2015 10:46 pm

At the most recent annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association two ...

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