“This federal shift toward deprescribing, transparency, and holistic approaches marks a long-overdue correction. By confronting mass prescribing head-on and prioritizing patient safety, it offers real ...

An Executive Order signed April 18, 2026 directs federal agencies to fast-track Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of and expand patient access to psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...

November marks the 20 th anniversary of the Fight For Kids (FFK) campaign launched by the mental health industry watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)—the longest-running ...

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International welcomes the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s newly released report, “The Kids Are Not Alright: How Private Equity Profits Off of Behavioral ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...