Welcome to the website for Citizens Commission on Human Rights Ireland, the Irish branch of Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR). CCHR was founded in 1969 by Dr Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Church of Scientology International and is the international mental health watchdog organisation.

We are an Irish nonpolitical, nonreligious, nonprofit organization dedicated solely to eradicating mental health abuse and enacting patient and consumer protections. Our role is to investigate and expose such psychiatric abuses in Ireland and to show the way forward towards a health system that truly advocates and supports real mental health.

We function 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.

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 multibillion 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, nonconflicted medical review, (B) the medical validity of the diagnosis for which drugs are being prescribed, (C) all nondrug options (essentially informed consent) and (D) the right to refuse any treatment they consider harmful.

We are not seeking to abolish psychiatry. We seek to reform psychiatry so that it provides the mental health care that its vulnerable patients need rather than the barbaric electroschock and coercive drugging that are currently doled out in the guise of help.

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