by CCHR Florida | Nov 14, 2018 | ECT, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
The Florida chapter of the international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), applauds a recent Supreme Court decision in Victoria, Australia that ruled the forcible use of electroshock treatment (ECT) violates patients’ human rights....
by CCHR Florida | Nov 1, 2018 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, ECT, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, held a demonstration in Orlando at the Psych Congress protesting the drugging and electroshocking of children. Marching through the streets to...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 25, 2018 | ECT, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit watchdog that exposes human rights violations in the field of mental health, held an exhibit this week in Miami that presented shocking evidence of mental health abuse and dangerous psychiatric drugging of...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 17, 2018 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
CCHR hosted an event following World Mental Health Day where experts presented solutions to the challenges faced when dealing with youth mental health. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 7, 2018 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Earlier this year, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) reported that benzodiazepines, commonly called benzos, were a factor in the deaths of Tom Petty, Prince, Heath Ledger, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and other creative artists. In the same article,...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 5, 2018 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
How many more tragedies and lost lives will it take for governments to recognize that in addition to any other investigations and actions they take in relation to mass acts of violence, for the sake of our communities and families, the increasing reports of...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 16, 2018 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
Seen as a statewide crisis, 32,763 involuntary examinations were initiated on children during 2016-2017 according to a report recently released by the Baker Act Reporting Center. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 3, 2018 | Children and Teens, ECT, Elderly, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Mental Health Watchdog calls upon the FDA to ban the ECT device from use after finding electroshock causes brain damage, memory loss and death. The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida announced its support of the nationwide...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 2, 2018 | Mass Violence, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive psychiatric practices in the mental health industry, educated hundreds of school officials, security...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 3, 2018 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
In response to the recent Investigations and federal court filings exposing the documented psychotropic abuse of immigrant children held at Shiloh Treatment Center south of Houston, as well as other such centers, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is...
by CCHR Florida | May 30, 2018 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
According to the Florida Medical Examiners Annual Report for 2016, drug related deaths increased in the state by 22% over 2015 and 5,725 of the deaths investigated were opioid-related deaths. That opioid use and abuse has become an epidemic in Florida and across the...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 26, 2018 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
With reports surfacing that the number of citizens being Baker Acted is on the rise following the school shooting in Parkland, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is cautioning those charged with executing an involuntary psychiatric examination to pay heed...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 19, 2018 | Elderly, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Despite of protest from over 40 psychiatrists, the New York Times has published an in-depth investigative report of improper labeling and prescribing of antidepressants in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere. The article is headlined, “Most People Taking Antidepressants...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 23, 2018 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
The mental health watchdog group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)International is offering Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and school officials a free copy of its compelling new report about a common denominator found in many mass shootings: psychotropic...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 22, 2018 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive and fraudulent psychiatric practices in the mental health industry, is bringing attention to the need for an effective system...