LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 14, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International, a mental health industry watchdog, strongly rejects a recent joint statement by the World, European, and American psychiatric associations that advocates the use of electroshock treatment on children.[1] CCHR warns that with children as young as five already […]
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Press Release: Despite 241% Spending Surge and Record Treatment Numbers, U.S. Mental Health Outcomes Continue to Deteriorate, Congressional RoundTable and CCHR Warns
By Send2Press Newswire on April 6, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The U.S. House Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services recently held a roundtable examining the state of mental health in America, revealing a troubling paradox: more Americans are receiving treatment than ever before, yet outcomes are significantly worsening. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International […]
Press Release: CCHR: Time to End the Psychotropic Pill Epidemic – National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day Exposes America’s Hidden Medication Crisis
By Send2Press Newswire on March 30, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On March 24, National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day spotlighted a preventable public health crisis: adverse drug events (ADEs)-injuries, side effects, and errors from medication use, including psychiatric drugs-are estimated to cause more than 250,000 deaths each year in the United States. For more than five […]
Press Release: CCHR Says Expansion of Forced Psychiatric Treatment Harms Human Rights
By Send2Press Newswire on March 23, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 23, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As U.S. policies increasingly promote involuntary psychiatric commitment for homeless populations following a July 2025 executive order, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) warns that expanding coercive psychiatry violates human rights and lacks proven benefits.[1] CCHR calls for ending involuntary commitment and forced treatment, […]
Press Release: CCHR Raises Alarm Over Psychiatric Euthanasia as Assisted-Suicide Laws Expand
By Send2Press Newswire on March 17, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 17, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As assisted-suicide laws expand worldwide to include individuals diagnosed with mental disorders, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) warns that psychiatry’s diagnostic system-lacking objective medical tests-should never justify ending a human life. The watchdog group says the trend reflects a dangerous shift toward psychiatric-sanctioned […]
Press Release: CCHR: CIA Mind-Control History is a Predictor of Today’s Mass Psychiatric Drug Expansion
By Send2Press Newswire on March 10, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 10, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — 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 human behavior. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) began exposing these psychiatric mind control programs in the 1970s through […]
Press Release: CCHR Says Antipsychotic Drug Harm in the Face of Workable Alternatives is Blatantly Ignored
By Send2Press Newswire on March 2, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Seventy-two years after the first antipsychotic, Thorazine, was approved, psychiatry is now seriously discussing the need to deprescribe these drugs. For millions already exposed, that realization comes far too late. Despite decades of mounting evidence of severe and sometimes irreversible harm, new drugs in the same […]
Press Release: CCHR: Psychiatry Concedes Antidepressant Withdrawal Can Be Severe and Prolonged
By Send2Press Newswire on February 25, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 25, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) says a landmark article published in Psychiatric Times confirms what patients, independent researchers, and CCHR have documented and warned about for more than three decades: SSRI antidepressant withdrawal is more common and severe than previously acknowledged and frequently […]
Press Release: CCHR Warns Ongoing Psychiatric Drug Approvals Persist Despite Documented Risks
By Send2Press Newswire on February 18, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 18, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — More than 30 years after early warnings about antidepressant-linked suicidality and violence were downplayed, new peer-reviewed studies are again raising concerns about psychiatric drug oversight. The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) says high-risk drugs are seldom removed from the market and […]
Press Release: CCHR: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Mental Health Research with Worsening Outcomes
By Send2Press Newswire on February 9, 2026 in LOS ANGELES, Calif., Press Releases, Religion and Churches
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 9, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Research waste at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is reportedly costing U.S. taxpayers over $100 million annually, according to analyses of completed NIH-funded trials. With an annual budget of $48 billion, the NIH is the largest public funder of health, including mental health research, in […]