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RECOMMENDATIONS
1. No person should ever be forced to undergo electric shock treatment,
psychosurgery, coercive psychiatric treatment, or the enforced administration
of mind-altering drugs. Governments should outlaw such abuses.
2. Insist that community treatment laws that rely upon mandatory and thereby
coercive measures be abolished, and dismantle or prevent �mental health courts�
which are another conduit for drugging our communities.
3. Housing and work will do more for the homeless than the life-debilitating
effects of psychiatric drugs and other psychiatric treatments that destroy responsibility.
Many of them just simply want a chance.
4. Install in psychiatric facilities a full complement of competent physical
(non-psychiatric) doctors and diagnostic equipment to locate underlying and
undiagnosed physical conditions.
5. Legal protections should be put in place to ensure that psychiatrists and
psychologists are prohibited from violating the right of every person to exercise
all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as recognized in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights and in other relevant instruments.
6. File a complaint with the police about every incident of psychiatric
assault, fraud or illicit drug selling. Send CCHR a copy of your complaint.
Once criminal complaints have been filed, complaints should also be
filed with the state regulatory agencies, such as state medical and psychologists�
boards. Such agencies can investigate and revoke or suspend a psychiatrist�s
or psychologist�s license to practice.
7. Establish rights for patients and their insurance companies to receive refunds
for mental health treatment which did not achieve the promised result or improvement,
or which resulted in proven harm to the individual, thereby ensuring that responsibility
lies with the individual practitioner and psychiatric facility rather than the
government or its agencies.
For further information:
CCHR International
6616 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA, USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242 (800) 869-2247 Fax: (323) 467-3720
www.cchr.org e-mail: [email protected]
THE
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works
shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share
a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue
to do so until psychiatry�s abusive and coercive practices cease and human
rights and dignity are returned to all.
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