CCHR says the VA and DoD waste billions of dollars on treatments that contribute to high suicide rates, sudden deaths and ...

Watchdog says the recently updated “Declaration of Helsinki” Medical Research Code reinforces experiments on unconsenting ...

Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution 52/12 on mental health and human rights, which calls on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a ...

The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...

When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...

“The legacy of these practices continues to affect these communities, who are still subjected to stigmatizing and harmful mental health treatments today. The demand for justice is strengthened by ...

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a federal fraud lawsuit today against a Chicago psychiatrist profiled by ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune in 2009 for his alleged ...

The mental health watchdog says recent legislation improving oversight of youth behavioral facilities offers national hope, but warns that psychiatric hospitals involved in harm and… ...

As lawmakers on the federal and state level scramble to use the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a justification for the adoption of sweeping new gun control measures, one group, AbleChild, ...