Paris Hilton’s campaign and CCHR’s 35 years of advocacy force Provo Canyon Shutdown, fueling calls to defund UHS's behavioral ...

A new CCHR International report documents 145 cases of senseless violence committed by individuals taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. These incidents—including mass shootings, stabbings, ...

Common brand name stimulants, also known as ADHD drugs, include Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, Metadate, Vyvanse, Provigil. To see the total figures from IQVia on the number of people taking ADHD drugs ...

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...

“Universal Health Services, similar for-profit psychiatric hospital chains, and the mental health practitioners who treat foster children profit from a $23 billion a year ‘child abuse’ industry.” – ...

Global health and human rights agencies—including the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO)—report that coercion and human rights abuses remain entrenched in mental health systems ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International reviewed more than 50 psychiatric hospitals across 23 states that administer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Their analysis found grossly ...

“CCHR has helped achieved more than 190 laws around the world to protect patients’ human rights in the field of mental health. It says the WHO report is a vindication for the group’s long fight for ...

“Psychiatrists create an endless loop of drugging, ECT, and despair. Service members and veterans are left with lifelong disability or death. End psychiatric coercion now.” “When the history of our ...

“All too often it has taken media investigations and reports exposing abuse before governments to act to protect the nation’s children in for-profit and state-owned psychiatric facilities.” – Jan ...

“Psychotropic drugs are being used to sedate, restrain, and silence, and, as such, are a tool of oppression. CCHR asserts that this practice meets the legal definition of elder abuse and must be ...

Involuntary detention and forced treatment policies in the U.S. are unworkable and harmful. Moreover, they violate current World Health Organization (WHO) direction to end coercive psychiatric ...