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IMPORTANT NOTICE

The stories provided here are based on real examples of the abuses that are happening on a broad, almost epidemic level, in the mental health system and incorporates schools, courts, nursing homes and society generally. The information is offered simply as an idea of the research potential available—all based on documentation—that has been collected by Citizens Commission on Human Rights for more than three decades. CCHR is the preeminent international mental health human rights watchdog group that has helped to secure hundreds of laws and regulations and has assisted in hundreds of prosecutions of practitioners in the mental health field.

Feel free to use the following information. CCHR cannot advise you as to when you should pursue the rights of the individuals mentioned in the following or the rights from their estate, vs. how many details you need to change in a story to become exempt from needing to license the rights. Please seek legal or industry advice on these issues.

Deaths
     The Lie That Led to Death
     The Deep Sleep That Patients Didn’t Awake From
     “Daddy, I Don’t Want to be a Guinea Pig”

Drug Scams
     “Generation Rx”
     Drug Fraud
     A Prescription for Teen Suicide

Profiting From Violence
     “I’ll Picture Her Lying There on the Floor until the Day I Die”
     Deceiving Authorities About Violence

Crime
     When Rape Isn’t “Rape”
     “Therapeutic” Incest
     There are as Many Types of Health Insurance Fraud “as the Criminal Mind Can Invent.”

Abusing the Elderly: Drugs, Shock & Death
     Death from “Comfort Care”
     A Legacy of Shame
     Excusing Malpractice as Senility

A Lack of Science in Our Courts
     Insanity Defense: Hired Guns for the Highest Bidder
     “Hannibal Lecter”: Manufactured Madness

Medical Malpractice
     Denying Medical Care to Push Drugs


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