Mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, calls for increased legal action to protect vulnerable youth from abuses in psychiatric facilities. Citizens Commission on Human Rights International welcomes the increasing numbers of attorneys representing survivors of the troubled teen treatment industry, seeking justice for the abuse many have suffered in behavioral hospitals. On August 27, three Alabama … Read more
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. CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago, hails the current decline in psychiatric use … Read more
As the House Appropriations Committee eliminates a loophole that would have allowed punitive electric shocks for behavior control, CCHR calls for a complete ban on all electroshock devices. A loophole slipped into a massive budget bill by a Congressional subcommittee would have blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) proposed ban on a device used … Read more