CCHR Launches Report on Failed Mental Health Programs & Psychedelics Rebirth
A new resource on failed psychiatric treatment programs serves as advice to policymakers being asked to support and fund a resurgence of psychedelic drug therapies…
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CA Plan to Legalize Psychedelics is Dangerous for Mental Health & Patient Lives
California policy makers are being asked to support the resurgence of a past failed and dangerous psychiatric-psychedelic drug practice that went from a research lab…
CCHR Says the Olympics Raise Mental Health Concerns but not Treatment Harms
The Tokyo Olympics has shown importance of athletes’ mental health, but this shouldn’t be equated with “mental illness” that can lead to forced and damaging…
Britney Spears’ Conservatorship Challenge Paves Way to Reform But is it Enough?
The pop icon’s traumatic story of being held captive by a punitive guardianship law, with abusive psychiatric evaluations and forced mood-altering drugs, has prompted legislators…
CCHR Wants Ban on Electroshock “Conversion Therapy” Extended to All ECT
Watchdog says, “conversion therapy,” which uses electroshock, is torture, recognized by the United Nations. Whether used for behavior modification, internet addiction or any psychiatric condition,…