{"id":329,"date":"2010-09-12T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=329"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:08","slug":"protect-yourself-know-your-legal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/12\/protect-yourself-know-your-legal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Yourself &#8211; Know Your Legal Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 50 years, psychiatry has promoted its theory that the only \u00e2\u20ac\u0153treatment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  for mental \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is psychiatric drugs. However, not only is the drugging of  patients unnecessary\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand expensive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit causes brain\u00e2\u20ac\u201c and life\u00e2\u20ac\u201cdamaging side  effects. The simple truth is that there are workable alternatives to  psychiatry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s destructive treatments and you as a patient have the right to  refuse it.<\/p>\n<p>In this 33\u00e2\u20ac\u201cminute Watchdog Radio Podcast, attorney Gary Brown wants people to  know that they have a right to say no to psychiatric treatment and drugs, that  emotional upsets are a normal part of life\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey are not justification for  locking someone away as a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/podcasts\/?p=episode&amp;name=2010-06-14_watchdog_radio_episode_26_with_gary_s_brown.m4a\">Click  here to go to this podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watchdog Radio is brought to you by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights  (CCHR), a mental health watchdog and non\u00e2\u20ac\u201cprofit organization. CCHR investigates  and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights and works shoulder to  shoulder with like\u00e2\u20ac\u201cminded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to  clean up the field of mental health.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about involuntary commitment, read the CCHR publication  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Crack in the Door of Constitutional  Freedoms\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/\">available for download by clicking  here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are workable alternatives to harmful psychiatric treatment and drugs and you have the right to refuse them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/12\/protect-yourself-know-your-legal-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-5j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}