As U.S. policies increasingly promote involuntary psychiatric commitment for homeless populations following a July 2025 executive order, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) ...

Psychiatry has long been criticized for pathologizing normal behavior as mental disorders, leading to psychopharmacological interventions whose debilitating side effects can themselves become their ...

Declassified records reveal coordinated psychiatric participation in behavioral control experiments — raising urgent oversight questions as psychotropic drugs are prescribed to more than 70 million ...

“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...

The international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), is releasing Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects, a two-hour documentary that details ...

Between 2020 and 2022, Pediatrics reported a 130% rise in antidepressant prescriptions for girls aged 12–17, while boys’ prescriptions dropped 7%. “What are the odds that one-third of American ...

“Senseless violence may have many factors, but ignoring the influence of prescription psychotropics—despite regulatory warnings and clinical evidence—is reckless. Families who have lost loved ones, ...

“Far from protecting children, these programs risk false labeling, dangerous psychotropic-drugging, and stripping parents of their constitutional rights to direct their child’s care.” – Jan Eastgate, ...

“Electroshock, psychosurgery, forced drugging, seclusion, and restraint are not care—they are state-sanctioned abuse and must end. Upholding autonomy, dignity, and liberty is non-negotiable.” – Jan ...

“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, ...

“HB 497 represents a crucial step in ending abusive transport practices and providing legal recourse for victims. With growing bipartisan concern over the treatment of youth in behavioral health ...

“CCHR urges an immediate shift away from harmful psychiatric treatments that put veterans at risk of worsening mental health and even suicide.” The mental health watchdog says the VA and DoD waste ...