Despite years of investigations and billion-dollar fines, rampant abuse continues in youth behavioral-psychiatric hospitals. CCHR demands immediate federal and state action.

“There is an urgent need to ban all coercive and non-consensual measures in psychiatric settings.” – Amalia Gamio, advocate for disability rights in Mexico and vice chair, UN Committee on the Rights ...

CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago, hails the current decline in psychiatric use of ...

When psychiatric drugs and therapy don’t work, psychiatry rarely blames the treatment—it blames the patient. ‘Treatment-resistant’ is the label stamped on anyone who doesn’t respond to standard ...

“The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down ...

“Without a commitment to end all coercive psychiatric practices, including forced hospitalization, drugging and electroshock treatment, there cannot be cutting-edge solutions because psychiatrists ...

Sexual assault in the inpatient psychiatric setting is a significant problem with serious, lasting consequences, according to research published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. The data ...

“Universal Health Services, similar for-profit psychiatric hospital chains, and the mental health practitioners who treat foster children profit from a $23 billion a year ‘child abuse’ industry.” – ...

“We see antidepressant withdrawal symptoms that can be so severe, that patients feel held hostage to the antidepressant.” – Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical ...

In a series of articles being compiled as a report for policymakers at federal, state, and local levels, as well as for law enforcement agencies, CCHR International has documented psychiatry’s ...

“We need to rid the foster care system of child abuse in the form of psychotropic drugs. Increasing the criminal and civil penalties for those high prescribers to this vulnerable group is a ...