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

CCHR demands a ban on chemical restraints in U.S. nursing homes and accountability for prescribers, facilities and pharmaceutical companies alike.

Italy’s top court rules part of involuntary psychiatric law unconstitutional; CCHR urges U.S. to adopt legal protections as WHO, UN, and global courts move to eliminate coercive mental health ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the prescribing of stimulants to treat it were the subject of a recent game-changing exposé in The New York Times Magazine. The revelations will ...

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.

A prestigious award recognized five decades of relentless advocacy for justice and reform fought by CCHR and survivors of electroshock torture at a psychiatric hospital.

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

The National Security Archive’s 1,200 documents reveal the dangers of the 1950s CIA mind control experiments, including the use of LSD, which should serve as a warning against today’s looming $5 ...

“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 ...

Mental health human rights watchdog’s websites, publications and documentaries were determined by Spain’s highest court to be of “importance in today’s society.” ...