Despite Global Calls for a Ban, US Child Psychiatry Pushes Electroshock for Kids
CCHR says giving electroshock to minors causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws. By Jan EastgatePresident,...
View ArticleDeaths Spur Closures, but Troubled Teen Camps Must Be Banned, CCHR Warns
Despite closures since 2019, CCHR says the troubled teen industry still endangers kids’ lives, and tougher bans and oversight of both facilities and the youth transport system are needed to ensure no...
View ArticlePsychedelics for Vets? CCHR Cites History of Exploitation and Failed Science
CCHR says fast-tracking psychedelics for veterans repeats decades of unethical psychiatric experiments, ignores root causes of trauma and suicide, and risks turning vets into test subjects for a...
View ArticleRegulators Warn ADHD Drug Can Trigger Homicidal Thoughts—Parents and...
CCHR demands urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed in real time about life-threatening side effects of ADHD psychotropics—a $20 billion market—as millions remain unaware of new global...
View ArticleCCHR’s Legacy of Reform: Exposing Abuse, Securing Rights, Defying Opposition
From electroshock bans to exposing psychiatric torture, CCHR’s actions since 1969 have helped shape mental health law globally and hold psychiatry and psychology accountable—despite industry resistance...
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