CA Plan to Legalize Psychedelics is Dangerous for Mental Health & Patient Lives
California policy makers are being asked to support the resurgence of a past failed and dangerous psychiatric-psychedelic drug practice that went from a research lab…
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CCHR Supports South African and U.S. Inquiries into Mental Health Patient Deaths
With a 50-year history of fighting against psychiatric racism in South Africa and the U.S., watchdog praises inquest after five years investigating 144 psychiatric patient…
CCHR Says the Olympics Raise Mental Health Concerns but not Treatment Harms
The Tokyo Olympics has shown importance of athletes’ mental health, but this shouldn’t be equated with “mental illness” that can lead to forced and damaging…
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World Health Organization New Guidelines are Vital to End Coercive Psychiatric Practices & Abuse
WHO report vindicates CCHR and the many groups that have fought worldwide for the recognition of psychiatric human rights violations, including involuntary commitment and forced…
UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras Addresses Psychiatry’s Global Coercion & Crisis
UN human rights expert speaks out against coercive psychiatry, effects of totalitarian and authoritarian mental health regimes and forced treatment. CCHR calls for action to…
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When Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Becomes Reckless Endangerment
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