CCHR UK PRESENTS SHOCKING REPORT OF PSYCHIATRIC CRIMINALITY
Amid public protests, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights UK team presents evidence of appalling practices within psychiatric hospitals and the need for reform.
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NEW LEGISLATION RESTRICTS OVER-DRUGGING OF CALIFORNIA FOSTER YOUTH
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights Sacramento team up with other concerned patient rights advocates to champion reform and bring about monumental legislation to protect youth in the state’s foster care system from psychiatric over-drugging.
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PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
While psychiatrists and the pills they push leave blood, death and broken lives in their wake, the practice hasn’t stopped.
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SWEDISH COURT AFFIRMS PARENT RIGHTS
Thanks to the heightened awareness of drug dangers, justice was served in Sweden.
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FACTS
A CORRUPT SYSTEM
Psychiatrists are turning America’s foster youth into walking pills. Take a look at the statistics.
2X
MORE LIKELY
Foster kids less than 1 year old are 2X more likely to be prescribed psych drugs as
12%
OF FOSTER KIDS
are on antipsychotics compared to 1% of kids with private insurance.
Over 2X
INCREASE
in psychotropic drug use in foster care from 2000 to 2010.
It’s 53X
MORE LIKELY
for foster kids to be prescribed five or more psych drugs simultaneously than non-foster kids in Texas.
Nearly 1/2
OF KIDS
in residential treatment centers or group homes are on psychotropic drugs.
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