Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

With teachers facing threats, increasing acts of school violence and students being restrained at least 2,300 times per school day, CCHR says $2.7B in recent mental health funding to schools has failed.

Mental health industry watchdog praises recent Senate Committee on Finance report for exposing egregious systemic abuse of youths within the behavioral treatment industry.

CCHR applauds the panel's decision amid concerns over biased clinical trials and risks such as heart attacks, strokes, psychosis, and sexual abuse of patients during prescribed psychedelic trips.

CCHR calls for the U.S. to adopt the recent UK recommendation to reduce antidepressant use. With over 45 million Americans currently on these drugs, which have been linked to suicide and withdrawal effects, CCHR urges immediate action.

CCHR says a recent Journal of Legislation article finds steps taken by 11 states and Congress are inadequate given the "sheer urgency" to curb abuse, neglect, injury and death occurring at residential behavioral treatment facilities

Watchdog highlights reports of patients sexually and physically assaulted, drugged, restrained, or killed, all in a single month, citing nationwide and global concerns.

Group says actress Whoopi Goldberg recently revealed her mother was given electroshock resulting in the memory loss of her children, highlighting that women have been and continue to be over-targeted for ECT.

CCHR and its Task Force Against Racism, headed by NAACP chapter president, Rev. Fred Shaw, lash out against coercive psychiatric practices that African Americans are subjected to.

Group protests the American Psychiatric Association meeting during May's Mental Health Month, calling for legislation to define forced treatment as torture and to ban electroshock treatment.

In the wake of the World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association and European Psychiatric Congress condemning coercive psych practices, a mental health watchdog asks why an APA Meeting has failed to do the same.