by CCHR CO | Aug 27, 2026 | General News
Black Americans receiving mental health services are disproportionately diagnosed with disruptive, defiant and psychotic disorders, and are nearly twice as likely to be physically, mechanically, or chemically restrained in mental health facilities, restrained for a...
by CCHR CO | Jul 30, 2026 | General News
Antidepressants, electroshock, so-called psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and even inpatient stays in psychiatric facilities carry far more risks for women, who are inadequately warned of the risks, research shows. Article by CCHR National The U.S. Department of...
by CCHR CO | May 15, 2026 | General News
Relatives and friends across 22 countries describe memory loss, cognitive decline, disability and death following electroshock “treatment,” with many saying their loved ones’ lives were permanently destroyed. Easy, Fast, Effective…” —Somatics LLC, maker of the...
by CCHR CO | May 8, 2026 | General News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced its intention to shift the standard of care toward prevention and a more holistic approach to mental health. In a landmark shift in mental health priorities, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
by CCHR CO | Mar 25, 2026 | General News
Investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General show that 17 percent of long-stay nursing home residents receive antipsychotics. She loved playing with her dolls. She found happiness and comfort caring for what she called...
by CCHR CO | Mar 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
A new study calls into question the validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a foremost depression screening tool, and cautions researchers and mental health providers about relying on PHQ results. A new research report suggests that a widely used...
by CCHR CO | Mar 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Tracking 460,000 teens with no prior mental health problems, researchers found those who used cannabis faced sharply higher rates of serious psychiatric diagnoses by young adulthood. Astudy this month finds that cannabis use among adolescents substantially increases...
by CCHR CO | Feb 13, 2026 | General News
A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all. WARNING: Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated...
by CCHR CO | Feb 12, 2026 | General News
Researchers tracked more than 1,000 Australian infants and found children whose mothers used antidepressants in the last three months of pregnancy had up to nine times higher odds of developing autism. At two months old, he didn’t babble or laugh or respond to any...
by CCHR CO | Jan 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights says FDA approval of antidepressants ignores decades of documented, permanent harms and calls for a full independent investigation into PSSD. “After taking [antidepressants], my genitals felt completely numb and my emotions...
