Citizens Commission on Human Rights International and its Bay Area chapters protested outside the American Psychiatric Association’s annual convention at San Francisco’s Moscone Center on May 16, ...

A recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement to curb psychiatric drug overprescribing is a welcome and significant step toward protecting the nearly 77 million Americans ...

An Executive Order signed April 18, 2026 directs federal agencies to fast-track Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of and expand patient access to psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and ...

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...

“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...

“Forced ECT, drugging, seclusion, restraint, and involuntary institutionalization constitute potential torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. These are not medical interventions; they are ...

Between 2020 and 2022, Pediatrics reported a 130% rise in antidepressant prescriptions for girls aged 12–17, while boys’ prescriptions dropped 7%. “What are the odds that one-third of American ...

“Involuntary psychiatric commitment today is not a form of care—it is the continuation of eugenics under new terminology... America and Europe have a chance to reject this failed model and instead ...

“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...

Since its founding in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has been on the front lines of restoring human rights to the ...

“This is a criminal industry getting away with egregious assault and deaths of youths, aided by government complacency and bureaucratic delay. America is oblivious to this massive child abuse. That ...