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Citizens Commission on Human Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. Today, it has more than 135 chapters in 34 countries.
Its board of advisors includes doctors, lawyers, educators, artists, business professionals, and civil and human rights representatives.
CCHR has inspired and contributed to many hundreds of reforms by testifying before legislative hearings and conducting public hearings into psychiatric abuse.
Most people today have difficulty understanding the destructive impact that psychiatry is having on communities around the world. For far too many people, the lesson is learned only after a psychiatrist has destroyed some part of their life.
The destruction might come in the form of the death of their child due to long-term usage of a stimulant drug, prescribed for an invented psychiatric disorder called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); it could be a murderous school campus assault by a gun-toting child who had been prescribed a violence-inducing psychiatric drug and/or undergone “death education” or “anger management” classes; perhaps the death of a frail elderly relative from electroshock treatment at a psychiatric nursing home; maybe a child who was labeled mentally ill early in school and prescribed addictive, psychotropic drugs, who later becomes a hard-core street-drug addict.
At CCHR, we work continuously to educate the public on the truth about psychiatry. Only in this way is it possible to reduce the number of victims who learn this truth through personal tragedy.