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Coroner Finds Multiple Psychiatric Drugs in Mother-Daughter Murder-Suicide; Reinforcing Need for All Violence Cases to Have the Same Tests

A Clark County, Nevada coroner’s toxicology report released in September found multiple psychiatric and other drugs in the ...
CCHR Int

Psychiatrist Louis “Jolly” West: The CIA’s MKULTRA Mastermind Exposed in Government Hearing

“The legacy of Louis Jolyon West—and psychiatrists like Ewen Cameron—is one of deception, racial targeting, and crimes against humanity enabled by the CIA. As new documents emerge and hearings ...
CCHR Int

DOJ Takedown Exposes Over $220 Million Defrauded in Behavioral Mental Health Fraud Schemes

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 ...
CCHR Int

CIA Mind-Control History is a Predictor of Today’s Mass Psychiatric Drug Expansion

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 ...
CCHR Int

Decades of Warnings, Persistent Inaction: Studies Raise New Alarms on Psychiatric Drug Safety

“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 ...
CCHR Int

Europe Rejects Forced Psychiatry: Landmark Vote Declares Coercive Psychiatric Practices Incompatible with Human Rights

The United States is increasingly isolated in its continued reliance on forced psychiatric commitment and treatment, as global human rights institutions move decisively to end coercive mental health ...
CCHR Int

Coalition and CCHR Call on FDA to Review Electroshock Device and the Need for a Ban

“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 ...
CCHR Int

Profits Over Protection: How Conflicted Psychiatrists Drove a Youth Antidepressant Crisis

Between 2020 and 2022, Pediatrics reported a 130% rise in antidepressant prescriptions for girls aged 12–17, while boys’ prescriptions dropped 7%. “What are the odds that one-third of American ...
CCHR Int

Involuntary Commitment: America’s Eugenics Past Repackaged as “Mental Health Care”

“Involuntary psychiatric commitment today is not a form of care—it is the continuation of eugenics under new terminology... America and Europe have a chance to reject this failed model and instead ...
CCHR Int

Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment of the Homeless: A Dangerous, Costly Failure

“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, ...
CCHR Int

CCHR’s Legacy of Reform: Exposing Abuse, Securing Rights, Defying Opposition

Since its founding in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has been on the front lines of restoring human rights to the ...
CCHR Int

Regulators Warn ADHD Drug Can Trigger Homicidal Thoughts—Parents and Consumers Need to be Informed

“The idea that a drug prescribed to millions of children and adults could induce homicidal behavior is nothing short of astonishing—yet parents and consumers remain largely in the dark. This is a ...