Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

Professor Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced has prompted the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to call for greater treatment consent provisions to inform patients a "chemical imbalance" in the brain causing depression is disproved.

CCHR, a mental health watchdog, provides resources on psychotropic drug risks often prescribed after major traumatic events such as fires.

CCHR says 1,200 documents revealing the dangers of the 1950s CIA mind control experiments, including the use of LSD, should serve as a warning against today's looming $5 billion psychedelic drug and research market.

Reflecting on the progress made against coercive psychiatric practices and obtaining child protections in 2024, CCHR commits itself in 2025 to reinforcing the need to end psychiatric abuse.

Congress passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton. CCHR says the law sets a precedent for protecting youth from psychiatric-behavioral restraints and other abuses, using strong oversight.

A new study reveals widespread misinformation about electroshock therapy among patients. CCHR says parents are similarly misled about ECT use on teens and children as young as five.

CCHR, the mental health watchdog, established to uphold the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reports that 76 years after the declaration's adoption, patients are still subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment

Mental health watchdog launches new campaign to obtain "zero tolerance" for the psychotropic drugging of children, some too young to even walk

An in-depth investigation is needed into taxpayer dollars spent on bizarre research of animals, fish and insects, in a failed attempt to understand human behavior and improve mental health, watchdog reports

Expert declares mental health and psychiatry are in a tailspin. CCHR warns of psychiatric treatment risks, rising drug deaths, and poor psychiatric hospital outcomes requiring close scrutiny.