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 inter ...

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 ...

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… ...

Because of my medical training, my goal as a physician is to look for and treat the underlying conditions causing the patient’s problem, rather than just covering up those symptoms with drugs.

CCHR says the law strengthens the case for rethinking coercive psychiatric practices and moving toward informed, ...

“The APA and U.S. psychiatric institutions have systematically ignored these mandates to end coercive psychiatry—permitting widespread abuse, silencing victims, and protecting profit-driven systems ...

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 ...

25% of foster care children are still being subjected to psychotropic drugs, despite decades of government oversight. Medicaid accounts for 80% of all antipsychotic prescriptions… ...

Imagine being a parent taking your 10-year-old daughter to the doctor where she gasps for air and suddenly dies in your arms. You are informed afterwards that a toxic dose of prescribed medication ...

CCHR acknowledges media as inadvertent watchdogs that can influence legislators to enact protections against increasing incidents of sexual and restraint abuse of teens in psychiatric… ...