Reflecting on the progress made against coercive psychiatric practices and obtaining child protections in 2024, CCHR commits itself in 2025 to reinforcing the need to end psychiatric abuse, including ...

Congress passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton and backed by CCHR, setting a key precedent for future youth protections.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration categorizes Adderall in the same highly addictive class as cocaine, opium and morphine (whether its ‘prescribed’ by a doctor—or not.) ...

Legislators call for a ban on seclusion rooms and restraint use on schoolchildren, but CCHR says it must extend to all physical and chemical restraint… ...

Why is it that psychiatry is the only sector in the medical system that generates movements to oppose its oppressive powers and damaging treatments? Why… ...

Watchdog says patient protections from physical, chemical and sexual abuse in child behavioral facilities starts with patients and families reporting abuse and media investigations putting… ...

CCHR says FDA warning is long overdue considering CDC has repeatedly warned of overdose deaths from stimulant drugs, including those commonly prescribed for ADHD. By… ...

Why is it that psychiatry is the only sector in the medical system that generates movements to oppose its oppressive powers and damaging treatments? Why… ...

In commemoration of Universal Children’s Day in November and Human Rights Day on December 10th, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International launched a new campaign in the U.S. aimed at ...

A Minnesota man, David Russell, 44, has successfully fought against being court-ordered to receive further damaging electroshock treatment.[1] The movement to help Mr. Russell was started by Mind ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health industry watchdog founded in 1969 to support the principles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted ...