CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids’ lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities are ...

Side Effects of common ADHD drugs include heart problems, addiction, depression, mania, hostility, cardiovascular disorders, abnormal behavior and more.

Side effects of Anti-anxiety drugs include hallucinations, delusional thinking, confusion, aggression, violence, hostility, depression, and suicidal thinking.

CCHR demands a ban on chemical restraints in U.S. nursing homes and accountability for prescribers, facilities and pharmaceutical companies alike.

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

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan ...

While some (often the manufacturers) claim that there is a lot of research supporting a drug, it can sometimes be the case that the published research does not tell the full story. Sometimes there ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system as psychiatric diagnoses lack validity.

“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 ...

NARSAD is, according to its description, “the largest donor-supported organization that supports research on brain and behavior disorders.” Former NIMH director Herbert Pardes has been president of ...

CCHR says thousands of Americans have been misled that electroshock treatment and its devices are FDA-approved, reinforcing group’s demand to ban ECT entirely.

CCHR’s series on psychiatric fraud aims to assist policymakers and law enforcement in isolating how funding, without accountability for outcomes, has enabled massive financial waste and patient harm.