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, ...

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

“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 ...

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… ...

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… ...

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 psychiatrist’s research was once equated in cruelty with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African Americans; an expert questioned if a study was a violation… ...

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 ...