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CCHR demands a congressional audit of U.S. mental health research, citing billions in wasted funds, poor outcomes, and ethical concerns despite rising mental health crises.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) says billions in U.S. mental health research funding, primarily through the NIH and its NIMH division, has yielded poor results despite rising suicide rates and mental health disabilities.
CCHR highlights over $100 million in annual research waste, including unpublished clinical trials—such as 137 child-focused studies with $362 million in funding—along with extensive animal experiments involving severe distress and high failure rates in translating results to humans.
Critics, including former NIMH director Thomas Insel and Senator Rand Paul, question the biomedical model’s effectiveness and point to growing risks from psychiatric medications, including links to ALS.
CCHR is calling for a congressional audit to address transparency, ethics, and lack of measurable public health gains.
CCHR exige una auditoría del Congreso de la investigación de salud mental de los Estados Unidos, citando miles de millones en fondos desperdiciados, pobres resultados y preocupaciones éticas a pesar de las crecientes crisis de salud mental.