From electroshock bans to exposing psychiatric torture, CCHR’s actions since 1969 have helped shape mental health law globally and hold psychiatry and psychology accountable—despite industry ...

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.

A recent national news report on Jack Ruby, who murdered President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, raises questions about the psychiatrist who assessed Ruby as “insane” while conducting ...

CCHR hopes study will put an end to the psychiatric practice of pre-drugging children with powerful psychotropic drugs to prevent the possible onset of a behavioral disorder. Experts condemn the ...

Landmark study disproves that a “chemical imbalance” causes depression—a scientifically meaningless theory that has misled consumers, while driving up antidepressant sales to $15 billion a year.

Recent legislation improving oversight of youth behavioral facilities offers national hope, but CCHR warns that psychiatric hospitals involved in fraud and sexual abuse are evading justice through “no ...

CCHR’s series on psychiatric fraud aims to assist policymakers and law enforcement in isolating how funding, without accountability for outcomes, has enabled massive financial waste and patient harm.

CCHR says media exposure of child abuse in the $23 billion behavioral industry is in vital need of reform. By CCHR InternationalMental Health Industry WatchdogOctober 23, 2023 CCHR International ...

Psychiatric drugs and mass shootings - 49 drug regulatory warnings cite psychiatric drugs causing mania, hostility, and violence.

Over 14,800 ECT patients were 16 times more likely to try to commit suicide than a control group of 58,369; antidepressants can also induce suicidal feelings and frightening long-term withdrawal ...

Mental health professionals suggest that the latest spate of mass killings require more psychiatric services and stronger involuntary commitment laws to prevent future violence. However, this would ...