Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

American Indian and Alaska Native people are being defrauded in a mental health system that has harmed them for centuries; government suspends 100 behavioral providers in crackdown on fraud.

With hundreds of thousands of involuntary psychiatric holds in the U.S. annually, the mental health industry watchdog raises awareness about tools to protect against this abuse.

CCHR raises concerns about antidepressant prescribing to children that could drive up suicides, according to new studies.

CCHR joins survivors of electroshock torture in NZ in condemning a very late apology issued by a psychiatric association, spanning half a century of neglecting the abuse endured. The group wants justice for victims of analogous abuse in the U.S.

CCHR, a mental health industry watchdog, which has documented over 1,000 cases of potential psychiatric-drug-induced acts of violence since the 1980s, reinforces the need for mandated toxicology tests in violent crimes.

Mental health watchdog says children are being killed by abusive and negligent practices in the $23 billion-a-year troubled teen behavioral industry, and the lack of effective oversight, accountability and justice continues to put them at risk

Subjecting 100,000 Americans, including children, to electroshock (ECT) constitutes torture, given the risks associated with it, CCHR says.

Mental health industry watchdog discloses that 3.3 million U.S. children are given psychiatric drugs despite WHO disapproving of these for children younger than 12

CCHR says the conflicted alliance of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry is rife in psychiatry's diagnostic manual, as confirmed in a new study that found $14.2 million in payouts to contributors

Mental health industry watchdog calls for an end to federal funding for psychedelic drug research on active-duty service members and veterans, likening it to the risky covert hallucinogenic experiments of 70 years ago.