Human rights group loudly speaks out for nationwide ban on "torturous" electroshock treatment given to 0-5-year-olds, pregnant women, elderly, veterans and more

CCHR's public awareness blog provides facts and warnings about electroconvulsive therapy and the need to ban it

Helping to raise broad public awareness and pass legislation to prevent psychiatric abuse

CCHR urges need to ban coercive treatment and electroshock

CCHR investigation also finds potential dangerous billing for ECT

CCHR wants electroconvulsive therapy training colleges and practitioners stopped from causing further damage

Watchdog finds electroshock causes brain damage, memory loss, death and 'mental euthanasia'

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Nashville set up a booth at the National Student Nurses Association Convention to brief nursing students and encourage them to report human rights abuses in the field of mental health.

CCHR is investigating children born with antidepressant damage being given further brain-damaging electroshock

CCHR reviews U.S. antipsychotic reduction program for nursing home residents

At the American Psychiatric Association in San Diego, California, human rights group demands an end to ECT (electroconvulsive treatment) and a nationwide ban against using the so-called treatment on children.

With child drugging on the rise and the FDA's failure to enforce their own regulations on clinical trials, a new exhibit opens amid controversy in Seattle.

A panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended Friday that devices used to deliver ECT, or psychiatric shock treatment, remain in the most high-risk category (Class III), reserved for the most dangerous medical devices.

Electro shock now used in all psychiatric hospitals in BC and general hospitals with a psychiatric ward.