Watchdog group calls for accountability as mental health spending and treatment surge, including increased antidepressant use ...

U.S. policies targeting homelessness revive coercive practices with no proven benefits—while global models show non-coercion methods succeed and lower costs.

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 ...

Tens of thousands of American children who begin with a prescription for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs ultimately end up on multiple powerful psychiatric drugs, sometimes even ...

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 ...

“Far from protecting children, these programs risk false labeling, dangerous psychotropic-drugging, and stripping parents of their constitutional rights to direct their child’s care.” – Jan Eastgate, ...

A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics has revealed that nearly 60% of people subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), commonly called electroshock, reported they were ...

“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, ...

“Psychotropic drugs are being used to sedate, restrain, and silence, and, as such, are a tool of oppression. CCHR asserts that this practice meets the legal definition of elder abuse and must be ...

“This is a criminal industry getting away with egregious assault and deaths of youths, aided by government complacency and bureaucratic delay. America is oblivious to this massive child abuse. That ...

“There is an urgent need to ban all coercive and non-consensual measures in psychiatric settings.” – Amalia Gamio, advocate for disability rights in Mexico and vice chair, UN Committee on the Rights ...

“HB 497 represents a crucial step in ending abusive transport practices and providing legal recourse for victims. With growing bipartisan concern over the treatment of youth in behavioral health ...