Psychiatry’s Continued Attacks on Missouri Citizens
This session of the Missouri Legislature has several bills demonstrating the psychiatric industry’s continued attempts to defraud and abuse citizens.
There seems to be a concerted effort in several states this year to pass laws allowing court-ordered “Assisted Outpatient Treatment”, also known as involuntary outpatient treatment.
Such bills are ongoing in Oklahoma, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Iowa as well as in Missouri. They lower the standard for involuntary treatment from a person being dangerous to just being “in need of treatment,” or euphemistically “clinical deterioration,” a completely subjective evaluation.
This is a concerning push for coercive psychiatric treatment which the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the World Health Organization have each called for stopping.
Guidance issued jointly in 2023 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) lays out steps towards ending coercive practices and “establishing mental health services that are respectful of human dignity and comply with international human rights norms and standards.”
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has not yet come into alignment with this international standard, evidenced by this concerted effort to make it much easier to psychiatrically treat someone against their will.
Read more about involuntary commitment here:
https://cchrstl.org/invcommit.shtml
Very Very Bad Bills
SB 1015, Sponsor: Maggie Nurrenbern, Creates provisions for involuntary outpatient treatment
HB 2088, Sponsor: Aaron Crossley, Creates provisions relating to court-ordered involuntary outpatient treatment for persons with mental disorders
HB 2512, Sponsor: Tricia Byrnes, Creates provisions relating to humane access to emergency psychiatric treatment. This is called the “Care Before Predictable Harm Act”.
HB 3313, Sponsor: Carolyn Caton, Creates provisions relating to court-ordered involuntary outpatient treatment for persons with mental disorders
If passed into law these would require a licensed physician’s testimony and a written treatment plan to force court-ordered outpatient psychiatric treatment on someone. Such “treatment” could be, for example, the administration of psychotropic drugs (such as long-acting injectable antipsychotic drugs); monitoring the individual’s daily life and reporting compliance with treatment; individual or group therapy sessions; mandatory drug testing and enrollment in sobriety programs. The court could also mandate that the individual accept assistance with housing, employment, or other community resources. They could also spell out Crisis intervention services in case of a mental health emergency.
If the person does not comply with the treatment plan, the court could order their involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility without a hearing.
What can we say about this? “Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.” – Thomas Szasz
Just take a look at one or more of the CCHR web sites to start to understand how very bad these bills are
The Missouri Legislature
The Missouri General Assembly is the state legislature of the State of Missouri and is composed of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The General Assembly is responsible for creating laws for governing the State of Missouri. The Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo) are electronically available on this site: https://revisor.mo.gov/main/Home.aspx.
You can find your Representative and Senator, and their contact information, by entering your 9-digit zip code here.
The current Session this year (103rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session) convened on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, and will end on Friday, May 15, 2026. You can see all of the House Bills (HB) by clicking here; and the Senate Bills (SB) are listed here.
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We Urge You To Contact Your Legislators To Express Your Own Viewpoints.
Please write, call or visit to express your viewpoint as an individual or professional, and not as a representative of any organization.Let us know the details and any responses you get. The full text of each bill can be found on the House and Senate Joint Bill Tracking site. Just put the bill number into the search box (e.g. SB123 or HB123).
While this list is not all the bad bills, and does not include any of the good bills, we’ve chosen the worst of the bad’uns to get you going on contacting your legislators!
Decide for yourself and take action.
Summary
Instead of these failed psychiatric approaches, the emphasis must be on workable mental healing methods that improve and strengthen individuals and thereby society by restoring people to personal strength, ability, competence, confidence, stability, responsibility and spiritual well-being. Psychiatric drugs and psychiatric treatments are not workable.
Read the text of these bills to see how they encourage psychiatric fraud and abuse, and urge your Missouri state legislators to reject pro-psych bills in their current form.
The real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life’s problems as an “illness”, and stigmatize unwanted behavior as “diseases.” Psychiatry’s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of “mental disorders” are a hoax – unscientific, fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric treatments, not just psychiatric drugs, are dangerous.