Involuntary Commitment Press Releases

As the U.S. considers policies to forcibly detain the homeless and others in psychiatric institutions, a new study shows people subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalization face a dramatically higher suicide risk and human rights violations.

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.

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

CCHR, the mental health watchdog, established to uphold the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reports that 76 years after the declaration's adoption, patients are still subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment

With hundreds of thousands of involuntary psychiatric holds in the U.S. annually, the mental health industry watchdog raises awareness about tools to protect against this abuse.