Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising inter ...

CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...

CCHR says the law strengthens the case for rethinking coercive psychiatric practices and moving toward informed, ...

A disturbing new study, “I Can’t Breathe” – A Study of Civil Litigated Cases on Prone Restraint Deaths, published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, reviewed 229 fatal police restraint ...

“The APA and U.S. psychiatric institutions have systematically ignored these mandates to end coercive psychiatry—permitting widespread abuse, silencing victims, and protecting profit-driven systems ...

CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago, hails the current decline in psychiatric use of ...

A newly published report in the University of Baltimore Law Review reveals widespread abuse and negligence in the troubled teen industry, where thousands of adolescents suffer mistreatment in ...

“It is time for comprehensive reform to prohibit coercive practices, enforce meaningful oversight, and prioritize the human rights of mental health consumers. Legislators must act now to ensure that ...