Publications and Information on Restraints
Through rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, this riveting documentary blazes the bright light of truth on the brutal pseudoscience and the multi-billion dollar fraud that is psychiatry.
For more information on psychiatric restraints, read the following reports and publications by CCHR.
CCHR’s Interim Report on Restraints
 In 1999, CCHR’s report, “Restraint Deaths in Psychiatric Institutions — A Culture of Violence & Terrorism,” was presented to a Congressional Hearing on Restraint Deaths. That same year, President Clinton’s Administration adopted federal regulations prohibiting the use of physical and chemical restraints to coerce or discipline psychiatric patients. The regulation also ordered a “national reporting system” to be implemented and for government funding to be cut to any facility that did not abide by the regulations.
Addendum to CCHR’s 1999 Report on Restraints
Despite the 1999 federal regulations, at least nine more children and teens died from suffocation or cardiac arrest during violent restraint procedures in psychiatric centers and hospitals. The youngest was nine years old. In 2003, therefore, CCHR updated the report. It focuses on the use of restraints, and the need for criminal penalties against all facilities and/or individuals found guilty of using abusive restraint procedures. CCHR presented this document to an ongoing federal investigation into the issue.
The Silent Death of America’s Children
 No longer is it a question of whether children die from psychiatric treatments, but rather whose child will be next. So why do parents bet their child’s life on subjective psychiatric diagnoses, dangerous treatments, and restraints?
On October 14, 2002, 17-year-old Charles Chase Moody suffocated during a restraint procedure at a Mason County, Texas, behavioral treatment facility—the fifth death in this chain of facilities since 1998.
In spite of legislative safeguards, child restraint deaths continue today. Read this compelling report and its recommendations.
Deadly Restraints - Psychiatry's 'Therapeutic' Assault
 A historical perspective on damaging and deadly psychiatric restraints, the booklet also offers a brief history of CCHR’s work to ensure patients are safeguarded against these potentially lethal practices.
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