Jan Eastgate Press Releases

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 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

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.

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 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

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.

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

Expert declares mental health and psychiatry are in a tailspin. CCHR warns of psychiatric treatment risks, rising drug deaths, and poor psychiatric hospital outcomes requiring close scrutiny.