SAVING INDIA’S FUTURE BY OUTLAWING ABUSIVE PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICES
An outdated Mental Health Act in India receives a long-overdue overhaul, ensuring ECT is not performed on minors and ending other abusive psychiatric practices.
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THE HIDDEN AGENTS BEHIND THE HOLOCAUST EXPOSED
To protect future generations from falling into the same trap, CCHR chapters held events on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to expose the true source of many Holocaust atrocities.
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RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Mass shootings make media headlines, yet the psychiatric drugs behind many are conspicuously absent in the articles.
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FACTS
PSYCHOTROPIC “SIDE EFFECTS”
Some psychotropic drugs have “side effects” that include suicide and homicide.
117%
INCREASE
in psychiatric drug prescriptions in the U.S. between 1999 and 2013
24%
INCREASE
in the suicide rate in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014—coincidence?
41
MILLION AMERICANS
are on antidepressant drugs
65
ACTS OF VIOLENCE
that killed or injured 693 people over 3 decades were by individuals on or withdrawing from psychotropics
409
DRUG WARNINGS
on psychiatric drugs include the risks of self-harm, suicide, violence, aggression and homicidal ideation
END PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE
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