“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...

CCHR urges urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed about life-threatening side effects of ADHD psychotropics and new global warnings linking one drug to homicidal thoughts.

CCHR says fast-tracking psychedelics for veterans repeats decades of unethical psychiatric experiments, ignores root causes of trauma and suicide, and risks turning vets into test subjects for a ...

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 ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system as psychiatric diagnoses lack validity.

CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.

Dr. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric ...

After more than 50 years of investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) can say with certainty that the psychiatric/mental health ...

“The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down ...

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan ...

CCHR says a New Zealand Inquiry finding of 200,000 children and vulnerable adults tortured in psychiatric and behavioral institutions mirror similar abuses uncovered in the U.S.

“ In response to the pervasive sexual abuse and assault within psychiatric facilities, CCHR condemns the mental health industry for endangering children and profiting from it. CCHR demands ...