CCHR Victoria News
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...
Are Psychiatric Drugs Behind Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooter’s Deadly Actions?
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara Published by CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 11, 2017 Sadly the public continues to be the victims of the same deadly scenario: a military veteran, receiving psychiatric treatment, inexplicably goes on a...
Psychiatry Continues Push for Electroshocking Nation’s Frail Elderly: CCHR Questions Potential Lethal Effects of ECT in Seniors
By CCHR International The Mental Health Watchdog January 3, 2017 A recent study claims that electroshock therapy (ECT) is “beneficial” to the elderly. However, the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), says the study is yet another push...
Psychiatric Hospital Chain (UHS) Lost $1.9 Billion within Less Than Two Weeks of Fraud and Abuse Allegations
Senators Call for DOJ & Health Dept. Resolution By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog December 20, 2016 Within less than two weeks of a BuzzFeed News exposé alleging abuse and potential fraud in America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain,...
Lawmakers Support Investigation into Largest U.S. Psychiatric Hospital Chain (UHS) Amid Fraud Allegations
By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog December 13, 2016 In response to the recent BuzzFeed News exposé on Universal Health Services (UHS), Sen. Charles Grassley, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Rep. Joe Kennedy, III, are supporting the need for a...
CCHR Calls for Legislative Intervention Against For-Profit Psych Facility Planned for Pennsylvania
By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog August 17, 2016 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) calls on Pennsylvania legislators to intervene in the recently announced plan by University of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster General Health to allow the...
CCHR Warns That Psychiatric Drugs Prescribed to John Hinckley Jr. Could Have Violence-Inducing Effects
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara Published by CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog August 2, 2016 John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, will, after 34 years as a patient at St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital, be...
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