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About CCHR Texas

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights Texas (CCHR Texas) is a non-profit mental health watchdog that has long fought to restore basic unalienable human rights to the field of mental health throughout Texas, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful. The CCHR network was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human rights.

CCHR Texas functions solely as a mental health watchdog, working alongside many medical professionals including doctors, scientists, nurses and those few psychiatrists who have taken a stance against the biological/drug model of “disease” that is continually promoted by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs. It is a nonpolitical, non-religious, non-profit organization dedicated solely to eradicating mental health abuse and enacting patient and consumer protections.

People frequently ask if CCHR is of the opinion that no one should ever take psychiatric drugs, but this website is not dedicated to opinion. It is dedicated to providing information that a multi-billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical industry does not want people to see or to know. The real question therefore is this: Do people have a right to have all the information about A) the known risks of the drugs and/or treatment from unbiased, non-conflicted medical review, B) the medical validity of the diagnosis for which drugs are being prescribed, C) all non-drug options (essentially informed consent) and D) the right to refuse any treatment they consider harmful.

CCHR Texas has worked for decades for full informed consent in the field of mental health, and the right to all the information regarding psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, not just the information coming from those with a vested interest in keeping them in the dark.

It is in this spirit that we present you with videos, blogs, news, medical experts and information designed to arm you with facts.

As a non-profit organization, it is through public donations that we are able to continue our educational campaigns.

If you feel your school is pressuring you to subject your child to unwanted psychiatric screening or treatment, call:
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights- Texas: 800-572-2905

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Austin

Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Austin
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