As reports grow of psychotropic drug harms and hospital staff prosecuted for sexually abusing children, parents need ...

The psychiatrist and CCHR co-founder spent decades condemning involuntary commitment and forced treatment. United Nations ...

Over 6 million American children are on prescribed psychotropics with debilitating adverse effects and youngsters are electroshocked; mental health watchdog says a shift is needed… ...

The psychiatrist and CCHR co-founder spent decades condemning involuntary commitment and forced treatment. United Nations human rights authorities now say coercive psychiatric practices violate ...

Chris Cornell’s Wife Rightly Questioned Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Husband’s Death; Coroner Cannot Determine Impact of Suicide-inducing Effects of Drugs on Cornell’s State of… ...

Governments fail to curb abuse in behavioral hospitals requiring tougher criminal penalties By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 23,… ...

“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, ...

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

“There is an urgent need to ban all coercive and non-consensual measures in psychiatric settings.” – Amalia Gamio, advocate for disability rights in Mexico and vice chair, UN Committee on the Rights ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...