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Coroner Finds Multiple Psychiatric Drugs in Mother-Daughter Murder-Suicide; Reinforcing Need for All Violence Cases to Have the Same Tests

A Clark County, Nevada coroner’s toxicology report released in September found multiple psychiatric and other drugs in the ...
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39 School shooters and other school-related violence committed by those under the influence of psychiatric drugs

School shootings and psychiatric drugs: It is not simply school shooters who have been found to be under the influence of or withdrawing from, psychiatric drugs. There are also documented cases of ...
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Psychiatry Museum

Located inside the international headquarters of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, is the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum. Opened in December 2005, the state-of-the-art museum is ...
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CIA Psychiatrist Louis “Jolly” West’s 1960s LSD Mind-Control Experiments Come Back to Haunt America

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...
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20th Anniversary of Fight For Kids Campaign Against Psychiatric Child Abuse

November marks the 20 th anniversary of the Fight For Kids (FFK) campaign launched by the mental health industry watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)—the longest-running ...
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CIA Mind-Control History is a Predictor of Today’s Mass Psychiatric Drug Expansion

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...
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Coalition and CCHR Call on FDA to Review Electroshock Device and the Need for a Ban

“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...
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A 48-Year Mission to Bring Criminal Psychiatrists Under the Law

Until the passage of state laws in the United States making it a criminal offense for psychiatrists and psychologists to have sexual relationships with or even rape their patients, mental health ...
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How Electroshock Treatment (ECT) “Works”

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...
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CCHR Applauds Study Exposing Financial Ties Between DSM Contributors and Pharma

CCHR says the conflicted alliance of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry is rife in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), as confirmed in a new study that found $14.2 million in ...
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CCHR’s New Documentary Prescription for Violence Highlights Overlooked Safety Warnings

The international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), is releasing Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects, a two-hour documentary that details ...
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America’s Most Dangerous Pill? Klonopin.

You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...