Psychiatric Industry Aiming to Profit from Racism, Targets African Americans
January 28, 2021
Excerpted from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights Colorado website
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 28, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ While many Americans see the recent racial tension in this country as an opportunity to address the issue of racial injustice, the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry sees it as an opportunity to expand their reach – very profitably – into the African American community.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health groups, many funded by pharmaceutical companies, had already been arbitrarily asserting that African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems, and less likely to identify their own mental health problems, than the general population.
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Says American Psychiatric Association Apology for Supporting Racism is Incomplete
January 28, 2021
“Father of American Psychiatry” Benjamin Rush was a slave owner
Excerpt from CCHR article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails To Fully Admit Psychiatry’s Racial Human Rights Abuses and Role In Creating Racism”
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 28, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism understates psychiatry’s racial human rights abuses and its long history of instigating racism by providing “rationales” that justified and perpetuated it.
Over the last 50 years, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has exposed that sordid history and intensified its efforts last June by forming the Task Force Against Psychiatric Racism and Modern Day Eugenics.
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