CCHR International Press Releases

Billions fund psychiatric drugs and brain interventions for veterans—yet suicides, overdoses, and violence rise. Experts call for safer, non-drug approaches that honor veterans' service instead of betraying their trust.

Despite $280 billion annually poured into psychiatric hospitals, forced treatment, and community programs, outcomes are abysmal. Governments must review costs and results before sinking more funds into failed systems.

More than 79 million Americans take psychotropics—millions abuse them, risking overdose—yet the $26 billion psychiatric drug industry's role in the failed war on drugs remains downplayed due to widespread misinformation.

Psychiatrists claim violent tragedies occur because perpetrators miss a mental health evaluation or stop taking drugs. The reality: psychiatric intervention often precedes harm, and psychiatrists cannot predict violent behavior.

U.S. and Europe are expanding coercive psychiatric practices rooted in eugenics, stripping individuals of liberty under vague labels and forced "treatments" condemned as violations and torture by international human rights law.

Communities deserve answers on the potential role psychotropic drugs and treatments may have in senseless acts of violence—an issue too long suppressed by vested interests.

Invasive mental health screenings risk false psychiatric labels, dangerous drugging, and erosion of parents' constitutional rights, while studies show no improvement in children's mental health outcomes.

Largest international study finds nearly 60% of electroshock recipients were misinformed about serious dangers, echoing CCHR's decades of evidence on violations of informed consent.

CCHR urges UN action to end coercive psychiatric practices, citing child abuse, restraint deaths, and lack of penalties for offenders.

Coercive mental health treatment endangers lives, drives up costs, and bypasses basic medical screening, watchdog group says.

Forced psychiatric treatment revives failed 1960s policies—causing trauma, violating rights, draining public funds, and enriching a system rooted in coercion, not care.

Watchdog organization's actions cited by governments, UN bodies, and health officials as critical in exposing and ending psychiatric coercive practices and abuse.

Billions fund psychiatric drugs and brain interventions for veterans—yet suicides, overdoses, and violence rise. Experts call for safer, non-drug approaches that honor veterans' service instead of betraying their trust.

Despite $280 billion annually poured into psychiatric hospitals, forced treatment, and community programs, outcomes are abysmal. Governments must review costs and results before sinking more funds into failed systems.

More than 79 million Americans take psychotropics—millions abuse them, risking overdose—yet the $26 billion psychiatric drug industry's role in the failed war on drugs remains downplayed due to widespread misinformation.

Psychiatrists claim violent tragedies occur because perpetrators miss a mental health evaluation or stop taking drugs. The reality: psychiatric intervention often precedes harm, and psychiatrists cannot predict violent behavior.

U.S. and Europe are expanding coercive psychiatric practices rooted in eugenics, stripping individuals of liberty under vague labels and forced "treatments" condemned as violations and torture by international human rights law.

Communities deserve answers on the potential role psychotropic drugs and treatments may have in senseless acts of violence—an issue too long suppressed by vested interests.

Invasive mental health screenings risk false psychiatric labels, dangerous drugging, and erosion of parents' constitutional rights, while studies show no improvement in children's mental health outcomes.

Largest international study finds nearly 60% of electroshock recipients were misinformed about serious dangers, echoing CCHR's decades of evidence on violations of informed consent.

CCHR urges UN action to end coercive psychiatric practices, citing child abuse, restraint deaths, and lack of penalties for offenders.

Coercive mental health treatment endangers lives, drives up costs, and bypasses basic medical screening, watchdog group says.

Forced psychiatric treatment revives failed 1960s policies—causing trauma, violating rights, draining public funds, and enriching a system rooted in coercion, not care.

Watchdog organization's actions cited by governments, UN bodies, and health officials as critical in exposing and ending psychiatric coercive practices and abuse.

CCHR demands urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed in real time about side effects of ADHD medication—a $20 billion market—as millions remain unaware of new global warnings linking one drug to homicidal ideation.

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 projected $10 billion profit bonanza.

Despite closures since 2019, CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids' lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities and the youth transport system are needed to ensure no child dies for profit

CCHR says electroshocking minors—including 5-year-olds—causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws.

CCHR demands a ban on nursing home chemical restraints and full accountability for prescribers and facilities

Italy's top court rules part of involuntary psychiatric law unconstitutional; CCHR urges U.S. to adopt legal protections as WHO, UN, and global courts move to eliminate coercive mental health practices.

Despite decades of investigations, fines, and federal mandates, abuse continues in psychiatric and behavioral institutions for youth. CCHR calls for immediate government action—not another three-year study—before more children are harmed.

Watchdog group urges sweeping reforms after HHS exposes mass drugging, industry ties, and diagnostic inflation behind youth psychiatric drug prescriptions.

Mental health industry watchdog CCHR opposes forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders.

CCHR Leads Protest at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Calling for an End to Coercive Practices, citing Restraints Killing Children, Forced Treatment, and a system that harms without accountability

CCHR Praises New Precedent-Setting Law Linking Psychiatric Drug Use to Public Safety Risks

New study underscores deadly restraints, with African Americans overrepresented. Systemic abuse is rooted in psychiatric racial profiling and eugenics, watchdog says. Calls for ban of coercive restraint practices.

CCHR Demands U.S. and Global Psychiatry End Forced Detainment, Drugging, and Institutional Abuse

Parents deserve the truth as leading scientists now admit families were misled into believing their children had a neurobiological disorder that required powerful stimulant prescriptions.

CCHR's New Report Exposes Dangerous Neurological Interventions Being Pushed on Veterans, Children, and the Vulnerable

CCHR says Despite Record-High Spending, Mental Health Outcomes Decline—Experts Say Fault Lies with Flawed Diagnostic System

A prestigious award recognized five decades of relentless advocacy for justice and reform fought by CCHR and survivors of electroshock torture at a psychiatric hospital.

CCHR Urges Parents to Seek Constitutional Justice for Abused Teens

CCHR Demands Increased Oversight and Accountability in Response to National Scandal of Staff-Inflicted Sexual Abuse in Residential Behavioral Hospitals