FDA Rejects MDMA for Mental Health Treatment After Identifying Flawed Study Data
CCHR welcomes the FDA’s decision to disapprove the hallucinogenic drug, MDMA (Ecstasy) saying if approved, it would have fueled a planned $12 billion industry to…
CCHR Reissues Call for Ban on Psychiatric Restraints Amid Global Concerns
Mental health industry watchdog says psychiatric restraints need to be banned in the U.S. and worldwide as part of ending coercive psychiatric practices. By CCHR…
Mental Health Funding Has Delivered Deaths, Child Abuse, and a System in Shambles
$280 billion in mental health funding hasn’t ended violent restraint use and patient deaths. And in schools, despite mental health screening and treatment, the culture…
Involuntary Commitment and Forced Mental Health Treatment Violate Human Rights
Psychiatrists’ increasing reliance upon involuntary commitment in psychiatric facilities and forced mental health treatment has caused a litany of harm and human rights abuses—funded by…
CCHR Urges Greater Govt. Oversight of Elderly Chemically Restrained and Shocked
In light of a recent media investigation and Medicare statistics, a mental health watchdog says increased government oversight of antipsychotic use and electroshocking of nursing…