CCHR urges urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed about life-threatening side effects of ADHD psychotropics and ...

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 ...

CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids’ lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system as psychiatric diagnoses lack validity.

CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.

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 says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of brain damage, long-term memory loss, and cardiac risks, including death, associated with electroshock, per the study.

“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 ...