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October 23, 2026
The UK's drug regulatory agency has expanded suicide-risk information to all ages and formally recognizes antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction
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October 16, 2026
Global Guidance Highlights How Institutional Treatment Violates Patient Autonomy and Exposes Them to Abuse While 1.2 Million Americans Are Involuntarily Committed Yearly
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October 9, 2026
The watchdog wants psychedelic drug applications rejected. If any drug advances, it says it must be barred for minors, pregnant women, the elderly, those with impaired consent, and those with a history of violence or psychosis.
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October 5, 2026
The mental health industry watchdog updates its Human Rights Declaration and Psychiatric Living Will, urging individuals to protect themselves against forced treatment
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September 28, 2026
Group cites 12 deaths in five 2026 attacks and urges states to require psychiatric-drug toxicology in homicides and mass acts of senseless violence
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September 18, 2026
As reports grow of psychotropic drug harms and some psychiatric hospital staff being prosecuted for child sexual abuse, parents need facts to protect their children.
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August 28, 2026
ECT survivors speak out about the painful practice administered to an estimated 100,000 Americans each year, including children
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August 25, 2026
Watchdog group cites Tennessee's landmark toxicology law and White Paper documenting 145 cases of violence linked to psychiatric drugs
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August 14, 2026
CCHR Urges Nationwide Adoption of Mandatory Medical Testing to Avert Psychiatric Diagnosis and Drugs
Federal deprescribing push and Florida's new guidance underscore CCHR's decades-long call to prevent misdiagnosis, harmful drugs, and needless suffering.
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August 7, 2026
Call for legal reform in $140 billion U.S. mental health industry following restraint deaths and evidence of harm from coercive treatment
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July 31, 2026
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.
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July 24, 2026
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
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July 17, 2026
Decades of Youth Psychiatric Abuse Exposed: Celebrity's Campaign and CCHR's 35-Year Advocacy Fuel Calls to Defund For-Profit Behavioral Empires
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June 12, 2026
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.
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June 5, 2026
Watchdog calls on federal officials to advance the HHS deprescribing plan with strong patient protections, as psychiatry attempts to weaken antidepressant tapering reforms
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April 28, 2026
Psychotropic drug-related violence cases with 720 deaths and 1,602 injuries fuel call for nationwide toxicology screening and database
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April 20, 2026
Vulnerable elderly residents face serious risks and premature death from antipsychotics, as nursing homes and their prescribers evade meaningful accountability.
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