Paris Hilton’s campaign and CCHR’s 35 years of advocacy force Provo Canyon Shutdown, fueling calls to defund UHS's behavioral ...
“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...
CCHR International strongly rejects a recent joint statement issued on March 31, 2026, by the World, European, and American psychiatric associations that advocates increasing the use of electroshock ...
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 ...
Between 2020 and 2022, Pediatrics reported a 130% rise in antidepressant prescriptions for girls aged 12–17, while boys’ prescriptions dropped 7%. “What are the odds that one-third of American ...
“The report is one of the most monumental ever in recognizing and condemning psychiatric abuses. It is a significant vindication for all those who revealed the truth about the abuses, and reflects the ...
A Royal Commission Inquiry into child abuse at the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital in New Zealand recently sat through a week of heart-wrenching testimony of children tortured repeatedly with ...
“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.” – ...
A recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement to curb psychiatric drug overprescribing is a welcome and significant step toward protecting the nearly 77 million Americans ...
After the closures of 16 addiction treatment centers in the wake of government healthcare fraud investigations, mental health industry watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), calls for ...
“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.