The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown has exposed rampant fraud in mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric, and substance abuse services. As part of a ...

CCHR has been obtaining psychotropic drug prescribing data and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for decades. As far back as the 1990s, amidst ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International wants an overhaul of fraudulent practices in behavioral hospitals that put mental health patients at risk. It has launched a campaign asking for ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, a mental health industry watchdog, said Medicare statistics reveal thousands of the country’s elderly are being subjected to electroconvulsive ...

UN human rights expert speaks out against coercive psychiatry, effects of totalitarian and authoritarian mental health regimes and forced treatment. CCHR calls for action to… ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

A patient of Stepping Stones for Living, a for-profit group home in Hermantown, Minnesota died earlier this year after undergoing electroshock treatment (ECT). A Department of Human Services’ Office ...

This year (2025) marked a turning point: global institutions, national governments, and the public are increasingly demanding a complete end to coercive psychiatric practices. But the group warns that ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) has launched an investigation into the adverse impact of mental health policy on schools, with a plan to update its report on how ...

In recent years, the mental health app industry has surged with around 10,000 to 20,000 available, offering everything from assessment to treatment that includes powerful and potentially debilitating ...