CCHR International

04/10/2026

04/09/2026

Data obtained by CCHR International through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from 32 states found that 2,999,084 children aged 0–17 were prescribed psychiatric drugs under Medicaid—the federal health program for low-income families—in 2023, including 270,196 children aged 0–5, costing taxpayers $1.78 billion.

04/07/2026

Psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical researchers who point out: psychiatric diagnoses are based on checklists of behaviors—that's it. No chemical imbalance tests, or x-rays or brain scans.

The general public has been led to believe that a diagnosis of a mental disorder is the same as a medical diagnosis of disease, which is false. This is common knowledge among psychiatrists, but not something they often admit to, simply because it is the foundation upon which psychiatry is built.

04/02/2026

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry and co-founder of CCHR, "We don't have an epidemic of mental illness, we have an epidemic of psychiatry...The chemical imbalance meshes very well with the idea that you simply give a drug which restores the balance. It's a story. A mythology. A fable."

03/31/2026

💊 Millions of U.S. Kids and Toddlers Taking Psychiatric Drugs — Why Aren’t We Talking About This?

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International filed Freedom of Information Act requests across 32 states to obtain data on psychiatric drug prescribing to children enrolled in Medicaid. Those states spent $1.78 billion prescribing psychiatric “medications” to nearly 3 million children in a single year — 270,000 of those children were under the age of 5.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights filed Freedom of Information Act requests across 32 states to obtain data on psychiatric drug prescribing to children enrolled in Medicaid. Those states spent $1.78 billion prescribing psychiatric “medications” to nearly 3 million children in a single year...

03/13/2026

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry, considered by many to be psychiatry’s most ardent critic. An Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and co-founder of CCHR.

02/24/2026

With MKUltra and Project Artichoke now trending, many are unaware that high profile psychiatrists were conducting these CIA-funded experiments. Congressional hearings and declassified files have long since verified these facts. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Colin Ross wrote a book detailing this history.

01/23/2026

15 years ago we launched this video explaining the obvious fact that childhood & adolescence are not mental disorders.

01/22/2026

The difference between a disease and a mental disorder...

01/15/2026

Dr. Toby Watson, Psychologist, on psychiatric drugs, "Let's not lie to people."