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Antidepressant Use Doubles Nationwide
Antidepressant Use Doubles Nationwide Sky News, 19 November 2017 The number of Australians on antidepressants has doubled in the past 17 years with only Iceland having a higher usage of the drugs. More than 2.7 million Australians are on antidepressants, and with...
Rhonda gets justice for state’s “worst case of child abuse”
Rhonda gets justice for state’s “worst case of child abuse” Tobi Loftus, South Burnet Times 29 Oct 2017 RHONDA Trivett was sitting on her bed watching a movie on October 17 when she received a phone call she’d been waiting for since 1981. “It was (Queensland Health...
Brutal Rise in Electroshock
Brutal Rise in Electroshock Whilst most people are under the impression that electroshock therapy (ECT) is banned in Australia because the mere idea of electroshock is so abhorrent, its use has significantly increased and it is being used on the most vulnerable in...
Seclusion and Restraint in NSW Mental Health facilities
Important Announcement MENTAL HEALTH Public Hearing – Deaths in Seclusion NSW Inquiry into Seclusion and Restraint Have you or a loved one ever been administered intravenous sedation as a restraint and experienced extremely disturbing side effects such as 'terror' or...
Over 16,000 Australian Children Prescribed Antipsychotics
Over 16,000 Australian Children Prescribed Antipsychotics Kate Aubusson, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 July 2017 A total of 16,570 toddlers, children and teenagers under 17 were prescribed antipsychotics in 2015, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data seen by Fairfax...
Nothing Short of a ‘Sea Change’ Will End Years of Gross Neglect in Mental Health Care
Nothing Short of a ‘Sea Change’ Will End Years of Gross Neglect in Mental Health Care UN News Centre, 6 June 2017 Citing decades of neglect in mental health care, a United Nations human rights expert today denounced “biomedical gatekeepers” who perpetuate stigma and...
Meet the Children Prescribed Antidepressants
Belinda Cleary, Daily Mail, 23 April 2017 A mother who watched as her 10-year-old son rocked in a corner of his room begging for someone to kill him to end his misery has revealed how anti-depressants turned her ‘gentle, loving’ son into angry and suicidal young boy....
WA kids under 7 years-old on antidepressants
WA kids under 7 years-old on antidepressants Cathy O'Leary, The West Australian, 15 April 2017Almost 5000 WA children under 16 years old are being prescribed antidepressants, which doctors argue reflects the rates of mental health and behavioural issues. Figures from...
CCHR Presents Human Rights Awards to Attorney and Healthcare Professionals Exposing Corrupt Mental Health System
CCHR Presents Human Rights Awards to Attorney and Healthcare Professionals Exposing Corrupt Mental Health System By CCHR International March 10, 2017 A prominent constitutional attorney, psychologist and counselor were presented with a Human Rights Award at the 48th...
Big Pharma Funding Biases Drug Trials in Favour of a Sponsor’s Product: Review
Big Pharma Funding Biases Drug Trials in Favour of a Sponsor’s Product: Review Lucy Cormack, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 2017Drug and device trial studies that are sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are more likely to reveal statistical results and...
Mental Health Watchdog Supports State Authorities Refusing to Allow UHS Psychiatric Chain to Open More Facilities
By CCHR International The Mental Health Watchdog Group March 1, 2017 The Oregon Health Authority rejected an application from Universal Health Services (UHS) to build a 100-bed psychiatric facility in Wilsonville. UHS owns the largest chain of psychiatric institutions...
Global Experts Expose Troubling Facts About the Psycho-pharmaceutical Industry’s Bad Science and Harmful Treatments
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara Published by CCHR International February 27, 2017 A new book, The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic, joins an ever-expanding library of information that further exposes the known serious harms,...
New Report Discloses How Psychiatric Fraud Creates Harm–It Costs Both Financially and in Patients’ Lives
By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog February 21, 2017 A new report on mental healthcare fraud released by Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) reveals a staggering $3.7 billion in criminal and civil settlements and fines among...
Mental Health Advocate Calls for More Women to Report Damage from Electroshock “Treatment”
By CCHR Intternational The Mental Health Industry Watchdog February 9, 2017 Carrie Fisher and Wendy Mileson survived shock treatment. Carrie revered it. Wendy didn’t. She underwent it the same year that Fisher made her film debut in Shampoo and two years before Star...
Risky Pills for a Weighty Problem
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara Published by CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 30, 2017 Like so many of today’s pharmaceutical chemical behavioral fixes, one of the newest weight loss medication for obesity to hit the market, Contrave,...
Staff at Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain Applauded & Encouraged to Further Speak Out About Patient Abuse and Potential Fraud
By CCHR International Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 24, 2017 Staff and former staff of psychiatric facilities owned by Universal Health Services (UHS) could be the key to protecting patients against further abuse and potential billing fraud, according to the...
Perth mental health experts call for closure of seclusion rooms
Perth mental health experts call for closure of seclusion rooms www.news.com.au, 1 January 2017Mental health experts are calling for an end to the use of seclusion rooms at WA hospitals as it emerged one child was locked up for 12 hours. A report by WA’s chief...
Psychiatric Chain Under Investigation for Billing Fraud & Abuse in U.S. Now Buys U.K. Behavioral Facilities
By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 16, 2017 Despite multiple U.S. Federal and state investigations into potential billing fraud or patient abuse, the largest psychiatric hospital chain in America has been approved to expand its...
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