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 electroshock and other biomedical, including drug treatments. By Jan Eastgate President,...
Any sexual contact with patients by treating psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists causes harm and should involve criminal sanctions.In countries, such as the United States, Germany, Israel and Sweden, there are laws specifying it a criminal offence for...
Netted, drugged, locked away: the damning face of child mental health in SA Joel Magarey, InDaily, 23 September 2019 South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up in seclusion at extreme rates and forcibly injected with...
Xanax still being overprescribed despite policy changes Rachel Clun, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 19, 2019 Patients are still being prescribed hundreds of Xanax tablets a year despite a cut in government subsidies. Reports of anxiety drug poisonings have also...
A warning for 1.5 million Australians on benzodiazepines Tue 13 Aug 2019, 6:51am According to the Australian Bureau of statistics, the single biggest drug type implicated in drug-related deaths are actually benzodiazepines, or benzos,drugs which help with anxiety and...