Citizens Commission on Human Rights reviews some of the psychiatric experiments that have reinforced its 53-year commitment to cleaning up the field of mental health. As a watchdog, it has documented ...

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 ...

The United Nations Committee for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recently issued a powerful new Open Letter reiterating its opposition to the involuntary detention and ...

The risks of these drugs are provided so the public can make informed, educated decisions. Zyprexa is a newer antipsychotic drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a black box warning about ...

According to international drug regulatory agency warnings, side effects of psychiatric drugs include mania, psychosis, hallucinations, worsening depression, suicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke, ...

You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...

The U.S.-based Citizens Commission on Human Rights International joined former child victims of psychiatric electroshock torture in New Zealand in rejecting a very late apology from the local ...

The following information is extracted from the most accurate data available on the number of children and adolescents prescribed psychiatric drugs in the United States, including 0-5 year olds. The ...

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 recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...