CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids’ lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities are ...

CCHR says giving electroshock to minors causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws.

Side Effects of common ADHD drugs include heart problems, addiction, depression, mania, hostility, cardiovascular disorders, abnormal behavior and more.

Welcome to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of ...

A simple guide to understanding what electroshock "treatment" really is and what it does to those receiving it By Kenneth Castleman, PhD About the author: Kenneth Castleman has a PhD in biomedical ...

Landmark study disproves that a “chemical imbalance” causes depression—a scientifically meaningless theory that has misled consumers, while driving up antidepressant sales to $15 billion a year.

The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) announces the second in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O’Meara exploring the epidemic ...

A recent national news report on Jack Ruby, who murdered President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, raises questions about the psychiatrist who assessed Ruby as “insane” while conducting ...

Overall timeline of what occurred leading up to, and after, Detroit mother, Maryanne Godboldo withstood an armed assault by a SWAT team and a tank for refusing to give her daughter a harmful, ...

Psychiatric drugs and mass shootings - 49 drug regulatory warnings cite psychiatric drugs causing mania, hostility, and violence.

CCHR’s series on psychiatric fraud aims to assist policymakers and law enforcement in isolating how funding, without accountability for outcomes, has enabled massive financial waste and patient harm.