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 ...

CCHR International is calling for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to be expanded and modernized to align with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration categorizes Adderall in the same highly addictive class as cocaine, opium and morphine (whether its ‘prescribed’ by a doctor—or not.) ...

Girl finally heading home after ’16-month nightmare’ Even though Justina had been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, which causes muscle pain and weakness, doctors at Boston… ...

New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years after the… ...

“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 ...

My book, The CIA Doctors, [i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers ...

“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 ...

With millions of people prescribed psychiatric drugs, clearly not everyone taking them (or in withdrawal) will experience violence, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation. However, according to ...

“The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down ...

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 ...

CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago, hails the current decline in psychiatric use of ...