Feb 17, 2025
CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.
Feb 10, 2025
As the nation observes Black History Month, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights highlights racial disparities in restraint-related deaths and advocates for legislative change to protect vulnerable patients.
Feb 03, 2025
Mental Health Industry Watchdog CCHR Calls for Nationwide Ban, Citing History of Abuse and Fatalities in Troubled Teen Industry
Jan 27, 2025
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.
Jan 20, 2025
CCHR, a mental health watchdog, provides resources on psychotropic drug risks often prescribed after major traumatic events such as fires.
Jan 13, 2025
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.
Jan 06, 2025
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.
Dec 30, 2024
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.
Dec 23, 2024
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.
Dec 16, 2024
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