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 ...

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 ...

When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...

The mental health watchdog says recent legislation improving oversight of youth behavioral facilities offers national hope, but warns that psychiatric hospitals involved in harm and… ...

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 ...

Group Warns Against Increasing Mental Health Funding in Response to Parkland Florida Shooting By CCHR International The Mental Health Watchdog February 20, 2018 The Citizens… ...

“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 ...

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… ...