Safety signals spanning decades have not removed many high-risk psychiatric drugs from the market, prompting renewed scrutiny of federal regulators ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

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 ...

My book, The CIA Doctors, [i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers ...

You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...

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 ...

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...

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

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.