Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

With FOIA data showing children as young as five subjected to electroshock in the U.S., CCHR International condemns calls to override WHO guidance labeling child and non-consensual shock treatment as torture and demands a legislative ban.

Watchdog group calls for accountability as mental health spending and treatment surge, including increased antidepressant use in youth, while outcomes continue to decline.

Over 76 million Americans, including 6.1 million children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs despite rising evidence of harm, from emotional numbness to violence, suicide, and death.

U.S. policies targeting homelessness revive coercive practices with no proven benefits—while global models show non-coercion methods succeed and lower costs.

As assisted-suicide laws expand to include mental disorders, critics say psychiatry's diagnostic system—lacking objective medical tests—risks turning treatment failure into state-sanctioned death.

Declassified records reveal coordinated psychiatric participation in behavioral control experiments, raising urgent oversight questions as psychotropic drugs are prescribed to more than 76 million Americans.

Mental health watchdog calls for urgent reform as millions face long-term drug harm despite evidence that safer, community-based models work

Official psychiatric publication acknowledges diagnostic errors and prolonged antidepressant withdrawal—confirming concerns long raised by patients, researchers, and CCHR.

Safety signals spanning decades have not removed many high-risk psychiatric drugs from the market, prompting renewed scrutiny of federal regulators, as long-reported harm intensifies concerns over failures in public safeguards.

CCHR calls for a congressional audit of NIMH after decades of costly, brutal animal experiments, unpublished trials, and failed biomedical research, as U.S. suicide rates, disability, and psychiatric drug harm continue to rise.