Opinions & Reports
Florida Is Locking Up 161,000 People a Year and Calling It Mental Health Care. The Data Say Otherwise
Somewhere in Florida today, a child will be handcuffed by a police officer, placed in the back of a squad car, and driven to a locked psychiatric facility; not because the child committed a crime, but because a school administrator decided the child needed a mental...
CCHR QUARTERLY REPORT: Evidence That Coercive Psychiatric Detention Fails and Harms Those It Purports to Help
Executive Summary Florida's Baker Act, the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, authorizes law enforcement, health professionals, and courts to involuntarily detain individuals experiencing a mental health crisis for up to 72-hour psychiatric examinations. The Florida...
“Biomarkers Aren’t Proving ‘Mental Illness’, They’re Exposing How Often Real Disease Gets Missed”
Biomarkers in psychiatry should be a wake‑up call about missed physical illness, not a green light to double down on labeling people “mentally ill” while their bodies are quietly failing. A story psychiatry should not ignore The USA Today piece opens with a chilling...