ALLISON FOLMAR RESTORES PARENTAL RIGHTS AND SAVES CHILDREN FROM ABUSE
What started out as a single case of Child Protective Services illegally ripping a child from a mother becomes a passionate parental rights crusade for a criminal defense attorney.
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SYMPOSIUM HELD TO END ABUSIVE INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT IN FLORIDA
CCHR Florida teamed up with local attorneys to hold the first-ever Baker Act Defense Attorney Symposium and Summit to tackle the involuntary commitment issues in the state.
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JAPAN FIGHTS RISING USE OF PSYCHOTROPICS
CCHR Japan holds exhibits and seminars for Japan’s Members of Parliament to oppose the number of children on psychotropics.
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WARNING MEXICO STATE OF PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE
CCHR brings Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibit to educate Mexican citizens.
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FACTS
AGAINST THEIR WILL
People around the world are receiving harmful psychiatric treatment against their will.
1 in 3
ECT VICTIMS
of the estimated 1 million who receive it annually worldwide, did so without their consent
70
PERCENT
increase in involuntary commitment in Germany over an eight-year period
10,000+
PEOPLE
in Australia per year are subject to compulsory psychiatric treatment in their own home
1,800
COMMIT SUICIDE
while hospitalized in the United States each year
195,000
BAKER ACTED
(involuntarily committed) in Florida, USA, in a single year
PUT AN END TO THE ABUSE
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