Italy’s top court rules part of involuntary psychiatric law unconstitutional; CCHR urges U.S. to adopt legal protections as ...

by Kelly Patricia O’Meara October 30, 2012. The devastating adverse effects mind-altering psychiatric drugs may be having on the nation’s military troops are best summed up by Mary Shelley’s Dr.

A recent national news report on Jack Ruby, who murdered President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, raises questions about the psychiatrist who assessed Ruby as “insane” while conducting ...

As the world’s leading mental health watchdog, CCHR has for decades investigated hundreds of acts of senseless violence, working alongside investigative reporters, law enforcement, as well as ...

Fraud- or theft-related crimes account for the second largest part of all the crimes conducted in the mental health industry in the U.S. According to a 2020 study published in the Journal of Medical ...

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 ...

Drugs, Wired Warriors and “Virtual” Insanity. By Kelly Patricia O’Meara January 23, 2013. In an effort to create the “Super Soldier,” the U.S. military spends hundreds of millions of dollars on ...

For example, WHO points to a series of UN guidelines and Human Rights Council resolutions that have called on countries to tackle the “unlawful or arbitrary institutionalization, overmedication and ...

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, celebrates its 20-year Fight For Kids campaign for children’s rights against psychiatric labeling and drugging, the decline in children prescribed ...

A simple guide to understanding what electroshock "treatment" really is and what it does to those receiving it By Kenneth Castleman, PhD About the author: Kenneth Castleman has a PhD in biomedical ...

CCHR says media exposure of child abuse in the $23 billion behavioral industry is in vital need of reform. By CCHR InternationalMental Health Industry WatchdogOctober 23, 2023 CCHR International ...