ECT, also known as shock treatment, sends up to 460 volts of electricity through the brain to induce a grand mal seizure. This disruption of the brain’s electrical activity alters its structure and ...

CCHR demands a ban on chemical restraints in U.S. nursing homes and accountability for prescribers, facilities and pharmaceutical companies alike. By Jan Eastgate President CCHR International June 20, ...

Top Reactions for All Ages: There have been 17,021 Adverse Drug Reactions in connection with ADHD drugs/stimulants that have been reported to the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (MedWatch), ...

Anti-anxiety Drug Side Effects Reported to the FDA: There have been 35,110 Adverse Drug Reactions in connection with anti-anxiety drugs that have been reported to the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting ...

Psychiatric Drugs—Regulatory Warnings on Violence, Mania, Psychosis, Homicide Fact: Despite 49 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence ...

Although there are numerous reasons for acts of mass violence, funding poured into violence prevention mental health programs has ignored a potential pivotal source, especially in schools: the ...

School shootings and psychiatric drugs: It is not simply school shooters who have been found to be under the influence of or withdrawing from, psychiatric drugs. There are also documented cases of ...

In July 2022, a landmark study by scientists at the University College London, finally disproved the chemical imbalance theory of depression. The study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, was a ...

Until the passage of state laws in the United States making it a criminal offense for psychiatrists and psychologists to have sexual relationships with or even rape their patients, mental health ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system. Psychiatric diagnoses lack scientific validity, leading to soaring mental ...

A recent national news report on Jack Ruby, who murdered President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, raises questions about the psychiatrist who assessed Ruby as “insane” while conducting ...

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan ...