CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...

A new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and headed by psychiatrist John H. Gilmore, professor of psychiatry and Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research, claims to be able to ...

Psychedelics are making a $10 billion-a-year comeback, replacing profit-losing antidepressants; with it comes a new wave of misleading, unproven theories that changing brain chemicals can… ...

Because of my medical training, my goal as a physician is to look for and treat the underlying conditions causing the patient’s problem, rather than just covering up those symptoms with drugs.

New study published during Mental Health Month underscores deadly restraints, with African Americans over represented. Systemic abuse is rooted in psychiatric racial profiling and eugenics,… ...

“The APA and U.S. psychiatric institutions have systematically ignored these mandates to end coercive psychiatry—permitting widespread abuse, silencing victims, and protecting profit-driven systems ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the prescribing of stimulants to treat it were the subject of a recent game-changing exposé in The New York Times Magazine. The revelations will ...

A disturbing new study, “I Can’t Breathe” – A Study of Civil Litigated Cases on Prone Restraint Deaths, published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, reviewed 229 fatal police restraint ...

CCHR warns of pandemic psychiatric child abuse across the U.S. By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog July 5, 2018 Many are outraged by… ...

CCHR International, the mental health industry watchdog, conducted a review of numerous studies on antidepressant withdrawal, verifying that symptoms associated with stopping antidepressants are real… ...

Spate of recent mass-shootings has reignited concern that psychotropic drugs, with dozens of drug regulatory agency warnings about the potential to induce violent and suicidal… ...

CCHR acknowledges media as inadvertent watchdogs that can influence legislators to enact protections against increasing incidents of sexual and restraint abuse of teens in psychiatric… ...