“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...

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 ...

This is just one of nearly 600 cases of Canadian kids suffering serious, sometimes fatal side effects suspected to have been caused by ADHD medications in the past 10 years.

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.

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 ...

Psychiatrist Colin Ross, author of The CIA Doctors, Military Mind Control and Project Bluebird: Declassified Information obtained through FOIA on CIA Mind Control Experiments ...

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.

State laws provide inadequate protection for children against electroconvulsive therapy, also known as “electroshock” and “ECT” (hereinafter referred to as “ECT”).

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 ...

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

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International welcomes the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s newly released report, “The Kids Are Not Alright: How Private Equity Profits Off of Behavioral ...

A simple guide to understanding what electroshock "treatment" really is and what it does to those receiving it By Kenneth Castleman, PhD About the author: Kenneth Castleman has a PhD in biomedical ...