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 ...

“Involuntary medication, electroshock, even sterilization — these are inhuman practices. Under international law, they constitute torture. There is an urgent need to ban all coercive and ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising… ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising… ...

The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats enrollees ages 3 to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like ...

A disturbing new study, “I Can’t Breathe” – A Study of Civil Litigated Cases on Prone Restraint Deaths, published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, reviewed 229 fatal police restraint ...

A landmark law signed in Tennessee on April 30—just one day before the start of Mental Health Awareness Month—marks a breakthrough in psychiatric treatment oversight and accountability. The law ...

New study published during Mental Health Month underscores deadly restraints, with African Americans over represented. Systemic abuse is rooted in psychiatric racial profiling and eugenics,… ...

A new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and headed by psychiatrist John H. Gilmore, professor of psychiatry and Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research, claims to be able to ...

Psychedelics are making a $10 billion-a-year comeback, replacing profit-losing antidepressants; with it comes a new wave of misleading, unproven theories that changing brain chemicals can… ...