CCHR International News
Watchdog group calls for accountability as mental health spending and treatment surge, including increased antidepressant use in youth, while outcomes continue to decline.
Over 76 million Americans, including 6.1 million children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs despite rising evidence of harm, from emotional numbness to violence, suicide, and death. CCHR renews calls for a move toward genuine prevention of psychotropic dr
U.S. policies targeting homelessness revive coercive practices with no proven benefits—while global models show non-coercion methods succeed and lower costs.
As assisted-suicide laws expand to include mental disorders, critics say psychiatry's diagnostic system—lacking objective medical tests—risks turning treatment failure into state-sanctioned death.
Declassified records reveal coordinated psychiatric participation in behavioral control experiments, raising urgent oversight questions as psychotropic drugs are prescribed to more than 76 million Americans.
Mental health watchdog calls for urgent reform as millions face long-term drug harm despite evidence that safer, community-based models work
Official psychiatric publication acknowledges diagnostic errors and prolonged antidepressant withdrawal—confirming concerns long raised by patients, researchers, and CCHR.
Safety signals spanning decades have not removed many high-risk psychiatric drugs from the market, prompting renewed scrutiny of federal regulators, as long-reported harm intensifies concerns over failures in public safeguards.
CCHR calls for a congressional audit of NIMH after decades of costly, brutal animal experiments, unpublished trials, and failed biomedical research, as U.S. suicide rates, disability, and psychiatric drug harm continue to rise.
Unanimous European rejection of forced psychiatric measures exposes a widening gap between U.S. mental health law and international human rights standards.
Recent UN Disability Committee Statement Reinforces the Urgent Need for Government to Abolish Forced Psychiatric Treatment Policies
New report cites abuse, deaths, fraud, and systemic regulatory failure; backs Senate BRIDGES for Kids Act
CCHR Says Mounting Evidence of Persistent Sexual Dysfunction From Antidepressants Demands FDA Action
New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years after the drugs are stopped.