The U.S. Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown has exposed rampant fraud in mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric, and substance abuse services. As part of a ...

CCHR has been obtaining psychotropic drug prescribing data and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for decades. As far back as the 1990s, amidst ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International wants an overhaul of fraudulent practices in behavioral hospitals that put mental health patients at risk. It has launched a campaign asking for ...

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 ...

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

“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 ...

You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...

Recent incidents linked to the hallucinogen ketamine raise alarms about the unregulated ketamine infusion clinic industry in the U.S. and the use of the drug for restraining patients. Citizens ...

Below is an overall timeline of events of what occurred leading up to, and after, Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo withstood a 10-hour standoff with police, an armed assault by a SWAT team and a tank ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

The New York Times recently reported on the growing public debate about the risks of psychiatric drugs—especially antidepressants—and the critical need to de-prescribe and safely withdraw from them.[1 ...