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Through the work of CCHR, public awareness of the destructive results of psychiatric methods has been raised and major steps have been taken to outlaw such practices.
In 1986, CCHR was credited in a United Nations report with responsibility for the introduction and passage of at least 30 pieces of legislation to improve the rights of individuals faced with the possibility of psychiatric treatment. Today that figure stands at 100.
CCHR is also responsible for the UN’s first Bill of Rights for Mental Patients.
As a result of CCHR’s actions, 877 psychiatrists have been criminally charged in recent years and 376 were jailed for their crimes.
522 psychiatric hospitals have been closed and a total of $600 million in fines has been imposed on psychiatrists and psychiatric institutions. Dozens of hospitals and psychiatrists are still under investigation for crimes such as fraud, infliction of bodily harm, sexual abuse and other felonies.
An estimated 400,000 individuals have been saved from having to undergo electric shock treatment and 20,000 from being subjected to lobotomies due to CCHR’s work.
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