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CCHR Says Mounting Evidence of Persistent Sexual Dysfunction From Antidepressants Demands FDA Action
New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years after the drugs are stopped.. Read more
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CCHR: Harvard Review Exposes Institutional Corruption in Global Mental Health
A landmark Harvard-affiliated review finds that profit-driven biomedical psychiatry has obstructed human rights-based mental health care, fueling coercion, unsafe drug use, and systemic abuses worldwide.. Read more
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2025: A Turning Point for Human Rights. CCHR Demands End to Coercive Psychiatry
With global bodies rejecting coercive psychiatric practices, CCHR highlights major human rights gains, exposes ongoing abuses—especially against children—and calls for a worldwide ban on forced hospitalization, drugging, and electroshock.. Read more
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Psychiatric Drug Damage Ignored for Decades; CCHR Demands Federal Action
CCHR exposes oversight failures that enabled decades of addiction and neurological injury from psychiatric drugs. Its new documentary reveals how industry influence and diagnostic labels conceal widespread harm and escalating public health risks.. Read more
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CCHR Documentary Probes Growing Evidence Linking Psychiatric Drugs to Violence
CCHR's latest documentary, Prescription for Violence, compiles court rulings, expert testimony, and global data—featuring attorneys, psychiatrists, and survivors—exploring the correlation between psychiatric drugs and violence and self-harm.. Read more
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Coalition and CCHR Call on FDA to Review Electroshock Device and Consider a Ban
A national coalition of health and human rights organizations, attorneys, medical experts, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) survivors says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2018 ECT rule is scientifically indefensible and places vulnerable Americ. Read more
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CCHR: New Data Shows Millions of U.S. Children Caught in Escalating Psychiatric Polypharmacy
National analyses reveal widespread psychotropic prescribing to infants, toddlers, and young children. CCHR is urging immediate federal oversight, calling the trend a systemic failure, placing children at chemical risk.. Read more
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CCHR's New Documentary Prescription for Violence Highlights Overlooked Safety Warnings
International Mental Health Industry Watchdog's Decades-Long Battle for Transparency. Read more
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CCHR: Study Finds Involuntary Commitment Fails to Prevent Suicide, Raises Risk
As the U.S. considers policies to forcibly detain the homeless and others in psychiatric institutions, a new study shows people subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalization face a dramatically higher suicide risk and human rights violations.. Read more
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CCHR Supports Call to End Coercive Psychiatry at World Mental Health Congress
U.S. human rights advocate addressed the World Federation for Mental Health Congress, urging global alignment with U.N. and W.H.O. mandates to abolish coercive psychiatric practices, including forced ECT and drugging.. Read more
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CCHR Exposes Harms Behind Today's Mental Health Awareness Campaigns
CCHR says real mental health awareness must confront, not conceal, psychiatry's coercion, child drugging, and electroshock behind pharmaceutical influence.. Read more
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CCHR: Misinformation Clouds Debate on Psychiatric Drug Toxicology Transparency
A mental health watchdog warns that misleading claims from special interests may hinder vital data collection on psychiatric drugs linked to suicide and violence, urging legislators to advance transparent toxicology reporting for public safety.. Read more
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CCHR Exposes Conflicted Psychiatrists Behind Teen Antidepressant Surge
A watchdog investigation finds prescriptions for teen girls soared 130% as psychiatrists with deep industry ties promoted suicide-linked antidepressants—earning millions while minimizing risks and dismissing warnings. Read more
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