CCHR condemns $12 billion child and adolescent behavioral market for forcing children into psychiatric institutions, leaving ...

New York Times exposé on unethical practices in Acadia Healthcare psychiatric hospitals prompts push for the removal of involuntary commitment accreditation from abusive facilities and CCHR urges vict ...

Madness is currently undergoing a redesign, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often called the ‘Psychiatrist’s Bible’ being updated. Basically, a big group of grey-haired ...

Mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, calls for increased legal action to protect vulnerable youth from abuses in ...

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 ...

“CCHR calls for a decisive move away from mind-altering chemicals and the biomedical approach, advocating for a focus on patient safety. The FDA’s rejection of MDMA marks an important step in ...

Mental Health Watchdog raises the bar on alerting parents during Mental Health Month about psychotropic drug adverse effects, concerned by 6.7 American children on psychiatric… ...

Despite promises to cut back on Pharma funds, 56% of DSM V panel members have reported industry ties— Zero improvement over the percent of DSM-IV members.

Watchdog highlights reports of patients sexually and physically assaulted, drugged, restrained, or killed, all in a single month, citing nationwide and global concerns. By CCHR… ...

As if mental health patients are not already taking enough pharmaceuticals, a group of scientists from the U.K. recently published a study chastising the mental health profession for allegedly ...