ECT survivors speak out about the painful practice administered to an estimated 100,000 Americans each year, including children

Watchdog group cites Tennessee's landmark toxicology law and White Paper documenting 145 cases of violence linked to psychiatric drugs

Federal deprescribing push and Florida's new guidance underscore CCHR's decades-long call to prevent misdiagnosis, harmful drugs, and needless suffering.

Call for legal reform in $140 billion U.S. mental health industry following restraint deaths and evidence of harm from coercive treatment

The mental health watchdog helped secure a federal ban on school-coerced psychiatric drugging, pressed for antidepressant suicide warnings, and now supports stronger deprescribing safeguards.

With electroshock now banned for minors in Ireland, several U.S. states, and Western Australia, mental health watchdog calls for global response to eliminate its use

Decades of Youth Psychiatric Abuse Exposed: Celebrity's Campaign and CCHR's 35-Year Advocacy Fuel Calls to Defund For-Profit Behavioral Empires

Hundreds remain traumatized by electro-skin shocks, as delays banning a device described by the United Nations and patients as torture continue. The inaction highlights the broader failure to also ban electroshock (ECT) devices.

Watchdog calls on federal officials to advance the HHS deprescribing plan with strong patient protections, as psychiatry attempts to weaken antidepressant tapering reforms

Psychotropic drug-related violence cases with 720 deaths and 1,602 injuries fuel call for nationwide toxicology screening and database

Vulnerable elderly residents face serious risks and premature death from antipsychotics, as nursing homes and their prescribers evade meaningful accountability.