Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...

“Forced ECT, drugging, seclusion, restraint, and involuntary institutionalization constitute potential torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. These are not medical interventions; they are ...

CCHR is urging legislators to ensure that policy decisions are guided by evidence, not misinformation from vested interests. The call follows testimony before the Wyoming Joint Labor, Health & Social ...

“If society is serious about addressing violence, we must look beyond the false psychiatric narrative and confront all contributing factors—including psychiatric evaluation, hospitalization and ...

“Far from protecting children, these programs risk false labeling, dangerous psychotropic-drugging, and stripping parents of their constitutional rights to direct their child’s care.” – Jan Eastgate, ...

“Electroshock, psychosurgery, forced drugging, seclusion, and restraint are not care—they are state-sanctioned abuse and must end. Upholding autonomy, dignity, and liberty is non-negotiable.” – Jan ...

“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...

A federal assessment of children’s health has identified the widespread prescribing of psychotropic drugs to U.S. youth as a “public crisis” driven by industry profit motives, flawed science, and ...

“HB 497 represents a crucial step in ending abusive transport practices and providing legal recourse for victims. With growing bipartisan concern over the treatment of youth in behavioral health ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“The report is one of the most monumental ever in recognizing and condemning psychiatric abuses. It is a significant vindication for all those who revealed the truth about the abuses, and reflects the ...