Consumers must be informed that a percentage of those taking psychotropic drugs may experience violent, even homicidal, and ...

Amid reports of psychiatric hospital abuse, CCHR supports global and U.S. efforts to protect human rights and demand ...

As lawmakers on the federal and state level scramble to use the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a justification for the adoption of sweeping new gun control measures, one group, AbleChild, ...

In an effort to summarize attempts by law enforcement to identify the reason(s) behind James Holmes killing 12 innocent people and injuring 58 others in an Aurora, Colo., movie theatre, one writer ...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration classifies Ritalin and other ADHD drugs in the same class of highly addictive drugs as cocaine, mophine and opium—Schedule ll drugs, with the highest potential ...

“Based on the evidence already available, for-profit and privately owned psychiatric hospitals should be stripped of the authority to involuntarily detain patients, and closures must be swift for ...

A new study has determined that as many as 1 in 15 people who receive electroshock treatment face life-threatening heart problems and that cardiac events are a major cause of ECT-related deaths. John ...

Imagine being a parent taking your 10-year-old daughter to the doctor where she gasps for air and suddenly dies in your arms. You are informed afterwards that a toxic dose of prescribed medication ...

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of the brain damage, long-term memory loss, and… ...