CCHR urges urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed about life-threatening side effects of ADHD psychotropics and new global warnings linking one drug to homicidal thoughts.

CCHR says fast-tracking psychedelics for veterans repeats decades of unethical psychiatric experiments, ignores root causes of trauma and suicide, and risks turning vets into test subjects for a ...

“ When abuse and deaths occur, these wilderness camps and troubled teen facilities must be permanently banned. We owe children and families real protection — not empty promises. ” – Jan Eastgate, ...

Despite years of investigations and billion-dollar fines, rampant abuse continues in youth behavioral-psychiatric hospitals. CCHR demands immediate federal and state action.

CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...

When psychiatric drugs and therapy don’t work, psychiatry rarely blames the treatment—it blames the patient. ‘Treatment-resistant’ is the label stamped on anyone who doesn’t respond to standard ...

With government waste raising economic concerns for the country, it is time to demand accountability for the $40 billion allocated to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). The agency has ...

CCHR has documented psychosis and violent behavior linked to any dose of the drugs and wants them prohibited as a treatment for the 3.1 million American children put at risk by taking them. By CCHR ...

“The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down ...

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan ...

A recent paper published in The Journal of Legislation about the need for greater oversight of the “troubled teen” behavioral industry conveys how “there has never been a more opportune (and critical) ...

CCHR supports calls for investigation into involuntary commitment and forced treatment constituting torture in Canadian psychiatric hospital. Says it’s a global problem, including in the U.S. By CCHR ...