TEAMING UP WITH THE NAACP TO STOP PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE OF BLACK AMERICA
Reverend Fred Shaw joined forces with the NAACP to pass resolutions designed to protect African-Americans against psychiatric abuse and electroconvulsive therapy.
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CCHR DEMANDS DRASTIC CHANGE FROM BRITISH PSYCHIATRISTS
CCHR UK claims Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress is foisting off junk science on the general public, putting UK children at grave risk.
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PSYCHIATRY: FRIEND OR FOE?
After an increase of psych drug use, CCHR Australia reaches 14 percent of the country’s population with a sobering documentary.
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A NOT-SO-PEACEFUL CONVENTION
CCHR France gave a European Psychiatric Association Convention a warm welcome.
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FACTS
THE PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG PROBLEM
If you go to see a psychiatrist, chances are you will leave with a prescription.
Here are the stats:
1 in 4
AMERICANS
are reported to be taking psychotropics, with antidepressants being the most common of the drugs
80,223,280
ON PSYCHOTROPICS
in the US in 2017, with 3.2 million of them being under the age of 12 years
50%
MORE DIED
from psychiatric drug overdoses in the US than from heroin overdose
57
MILLION
prescriptions were filled in 2014 in the UK, enough for every man, woman and child
$88
BILLION
is spent internationally on psychiatric drugs in one year
STOP PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE
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