Paris Hilton’s campaign and CCHR’s 35 years of advocacy force Provo Canyon Shutdown, fueling calls to defund UHS's behavioral ...
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 ...
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International reviewed more than 50 psychiatric hospitals across 23 states that administer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Their analysis found grossly ...
A new CCHR International report documents 145 cases of senseless violence committed by individuals taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. These incidents—including mass shootings, stabbings, ...
“Immediate reforms are needed to protect vulnerable populations, especially children, from preventable harm. Lives depend on moving from psychotropic pills to genuine prevention and away from ...
Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...
“After decades of rising prescriptions alongside worsening mental-health indicators, the evidence reveals a system that is not self-correcting. Repeated safety warnings, mounting injury reports, and ...
“This is a closed loop of harm and profit. First, the drugs cause neurological damage; then new drugs are sold to ‘treat’ the damage—and both are marketed as medical progress. There is zero ...
“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...
“This is not care—it is coercion weaponized under the false banner of help. The biomedical model psychiatry clings to is not only ineffective—it is harmful and costly.” – Jan Eastgate, President CCHR ...
“Youth, in particular, must be alerted that these drugs carry grave risks of dependence, abuse, and overdose—even when obtained legally from a doctor or psychiatrist.” – Jan Eastgate, President CCHR ...
“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...