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CCHR: Bipartisan Action Needed to Stop Child Torture in Behavioral FacilitiesMental health watchdog stresses need for effective action to ban the use of seclusion and restraints on children for behavior modification, citing trauma and death risks. UN condemns seclusion as form of torture, yet U.S. fails to act. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//cchr-bipartisan-action-needed-to/

CCHR Urges Overhaul of Teen Behavioral Industry: 30 Years of Children at RiskMental Health Watchdog compares teen psychiatric abuses of the ‘90s with today’s, documenting decades of harm in for-profit behavioral system. The industry needs tough accountability for behavior modification, child restraints and other abuse, to protect children, group says. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//cchr-urges-overhaul-of-teen-beha/

Child Psychiatric Treatment: Drugs, Solitary Confinement, Torture and AbuseThe abuse is not limited to one chain of psychiatric facilities or one mode of psychiatric or behavioral treatment. The abuse, which proliferates the child mental health industry, is systemicyet unknown to most of the public. It is an industry that puts profit above children’s lives, preying on unsuspecting parents and taking advantage of disadvantaged children, such as those covered under Medicaid (state and federal health coverage for lower income families and those with disabilities). It is rife with abuse, yet this hugely profitable industry is rarely held to account for its rampant abuse of our most vulnerablechildren. Read more here. https://www.fightforkids.org/child-psychiatric-treatment

Paris Hilton Continues to Speak Out About Child Abuse in Universal Health Services Facility and Other Teen Behavioral CentersTroubled Teens are a Multi-Billion Dollar Behavioral Industry Lacking Strong Oversight and Accountability. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//paris-hilton-continues-to-speak-/

Paris Hilton Speaks Out About Behavior Modification Abuse of TeensCCHR & FightForKids applaud voices for those abused in troubled teen behavioral industry. Paris Hilton has helped to break the silence to report behavioral punishment and abuse, reinforcing demands for reform. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//paris-hilton-speaks-out-about-be/

CCHR: Drugs, Electroshock to 0-17 Year-Olds and Pregnant Women Needs Urgent ChangeCCHR, concerned that children face motor skill failure, psychosis, suicide, memory loss and brain damage side effects from mental health therapies, refutes $82.5m of taxpayer dollars being invested in early-intervention research that may add harm. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//cchr-drugs-electroshock-to-0-17-/

CCHR Warns that 6.7 Million Children on Psychotropic Drugs Could EscalateMental health watchdog’s FightForKids campaign warns that child behavioral screening during home and school restrictions could lead to recommendations for psychotropic drug treatment. The drugs can carry serious risks to be aware of. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//cchr-warns-that-6-7-million-chil/

Task Force Wants Psychological Killology Police Training InvestigatedWith numerous articles exposing the dangers of fear-based warrior-training recently, CCHR’s Task Force Against Racism adds information to its website, calling on police to investigate the link between psychological training and use of unnecessary force. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//task-force-wants-psychological-k/

Task Force Against Racism and Modern-Day Eugenics Launches Vital WebsiteCCHR and newly formed Task Force develop a website aimed at educating and warning against racially-biased programs, treatment, restraint use, profiling and deaths. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//task-force-against-racism-and-mo/

CCHR Honors Co-founder Thomas Szasz’s Legacy Against Coercive PsychiatryCCHR dispels the myths attributed to Szasz, an iconic psychiatrist who defied psychiatric slavery and totalitarian control, and whose works against coercive psychiatry are now recognized the world over, even by the UN. Read the article: https://www.cchrint.org//cchr-honors-co-founder-thomas-sz/

New Study Further Confirms Severe Withdrawal Effects of AntidepressantsCCHR spokesperson, Fred Shaw, warns about antidepressant adverse effects and risk of African Americans being prescribed electroshock treatment when antidepressants fail. Calls it double jeopardy: prescribed drug addiction and brain damage. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//new-study-further-confirms-sever/

New Research Supports Electroshock Causes Brain Damage: Ban Re-urgedCCHR says new UK research on electroshock therapy damagegiven each year to 100,000 Americans, including children as young as fiveshould prompt review of U.S. studies and a ban on the practice. Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, a mental health industry watchdog, praised new UK peer-reviewed research published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry that found electroconvulsive therapy (also known as electroshock and ECT) has no place in evidence-based medicine due to risks of brain damage. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//new-research-supports-electrosho/

Psycho-Pharma Front Groups Paid Million$Campaigns to Stop the Stigma of Mental Illness were Launched by the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industry: With a seemingly altruistic agenda, the fact is campaigns aimed at ending the stigma of mental illness often have a hidden agenda: they are driven and funded by those who benefit from more people being labeled mentally ill and druggedthe psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//psycho-pharma-front-groups-paid-/

Date-Rape, Suicide-Inducing Drug FDA-Ok’ed to Treat Suicidal IdeasCCHR increases its monitoring of FDA approval of nasal spray antidepressant and mental health apps that could increase psychotropic drug use, leading to increased suicide. Latest drug approved is queried over date-rape and suicide allegations. Read article: https://www.cchrint.org//date-rape-suicide-inducing-drug-/