Canadian journalist Christine Hahn was presented CCHR’s human rights award for her investigation of a scam involving abuse and brokering of brain-injured patients between Canada and the United States. Her work fueled a major crackdown on psychiatric fraud.
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Among them was the publication of one of the group’s most compelling publications to date, Harming Lives: Psychiatry — Betraying and Drugging Children. The booklet, which exposes and documents the psychiatric industry’s campaign to drug children for profit, has been translated into 14 different languages and distributed in 30 countries. After its release, emotionally charged public hearings into the abuse of children and families by psychiatrists and psychologists were held in New York and Los Angeles.
But whether fighting psychiatric invasions of patients’ rights or preventing the psychiatric drugging of school children, by evening’s end it was more than clear that CCHR’s efforts are both vital and urgent.
“A wide gap exists between what has been and what should be in the field of mental health,” Ms. Eastgate said. “What has been is possibly the greatest crime of all time. What should be is an atmosphere characterized by tolerance, safety, purity and respect for people’s lives. While a lot remains to be done, what will be is now most certain. With the combined effort of CCHR and numerous other organizations, individuals, and you,” she told the audience, “we are bringing dignity and decency to the field of mental health.”
“Were it not for CCHR,” said Dr. Thomas Szasz when writing on CCHR’s accomplishments, “I wonder if anyone would know the truth. Instead, thanks to their work, millions know. This has never happened before in human history.”
    
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