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

As reports grow of psychotropic drug harms and hospital staff prosecuted for sexually abusing children, parents need ...

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 ...

The psychiatrist and CCHR co-founder spent decades condemning involuntary commitment and forced treatment. United Nations human rights authorities now say coercive psychiatric practices violate ...

Over 6 million American children are on prescribed psychotropics with debilitating adverse effects and youngsters are electroshocked; mental health watchdog says a shift is needed… ...

The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) announces the second in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O’Meara exploring the epidemic ...

More than one-third of children on Medicaid in the foster care system are prescribed psychotropic drugs, a higher amount than non-foster children under Medicaid, according to a study led by an ...

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.