Dangerous Mental Health Practices Must Stop on Our Elderly in Nursing Homes
CCHR responds to a federal investigation launched against the harmful psychotropic drugging of the elderly in nursing homes. It demands effective oversight and penalties to…
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Involuntary Commitment and Forced Mental Health Treatment Violate Human Rights
Psychiatrists’ increasing reliance upon involuntary commitment in psychiatric facilities and forced mental health treatment has caused a litany of harm and human rights abuses—funded by…
CIA Psychiatrist Louis “Jolly” West’s 1960s LSD Mind-Control Experiments Come Back to Haunt America
A recent national news report on Jack Ruby, who murdered President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, raises questions about the psychiatrist who assessed…
Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Children Were Tortured, Government Inquiry Finds
A New Zealand report exposes 50 years of psychiatry and government agencies covering up children being tortured at Lake Alice psychiatric facility with electroshock, their…
New Year Needs to Ring in the End of Coercive Psychiatric Practices
CCHR reinforces its commitment to a world without force, brutality, and coercive psychiatric practices, where human rights replace electroshock and brain-damaging psychotropic drugs. By CCHR…