The U.S. Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown has exposed rampant fraud in mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric, and substance abuse services. As part of a ...

Psychiatry has long been criticized for pathologizing normal behavior as mental disorders, leading to psychopharmacological interventions whose debilitating side effects can themselves become their ...

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 ...

“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...

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

“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, ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is warning Congress and the public that new legislation to legalize psychedelic drugs for U.S. veterans is a dangerous repeat of history, ...

“The growing international rulings, government acknowledgements, and awards highlight a turning tide—and now is the time for the United States to implement legal reforms that respect the rights, ...

“There is an urgent need to ban all coercive and non-consensual measures in psychiatric settings.” – Amalia Gamio, advocate for disability rights in Mexico and vice chair, UN Committee on the Rights ...

A newly published report in the University of Baltimore Law Review reveals widespread abuse and negligence in the troubled teen industry, where thousands of adolescents suffer mistreatment in ...

A new study reveals that patients feel misinformed about the risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), reinforcing the argument that the practice should be banned, according to CCHR, the mental health ...

“CCHR urges an immediate shift away from harmful psychiatric treatments that put veterans at risk of worsening mental health and even suicide.” The mental health watchdog says the VA and DoD waste ...