CCHR says giving electroshock to minors causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws.

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

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 ...

• The Call to End a Manufactured Epidemic: With mounting evidence increases in children being labeled with ADHD, without any scientific test to substantiate the diagnosis, a federal investigation ...

“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 industry watchdog praises recent Senate Committee on Finance report, “Warehouses of Neglect,” for exposing egregious systemic abuse of youths within the behavioral treatment industry.

CCHR says the conflicted alliance of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry is rife in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), as confirmed in a new study that found $14.2 million in ...

CCHR says renewed exposure of the CIA’s past MK-Ultra mind control experiments prompts concern about current psychedelic drug clinical trials.

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

CCHR says thousands of Americans have been misled that electroshock treatment and its devices are FDA-approved, reinforcing group’s demand to ban ECT entirely.

CCHR calls for federal investigation into psychiatric drugs’ link to senseless violence as report shows nearly a quarter of mass shooters had been prescribed psychiatric drugs. By CCHR International ...