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MENTAL HEALTH
Study Uncovers 750 Incidents of Coercion and Abuse in UK Psychiatric Facilities
Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.
MENTAL HEALTH
Ten Lawsuits Allege Systemic Abuse at Acadia-Run Indiana Psychiatric Facility
Options Behavioral Health is facing lawsuits and investigations after reports of forced drugging, sexual abuse and illegal detainment of children. Yet officials have issued no fines and closed the case.
MENTAL HEALTH
Study Shreds Claims Behind Psychiatry’s Push for LSD
Funded by a drug company, the study hoped to prove the “benefits” of dropping acid. Instead, once again, psychiatry’s dangerous miracle cures fizzle under scrutiny.
MENTAL HEALTH
New Study Finds ADHD Drugs Are Causing Rampant Addiction as Prescriptions Soar
A new study reveals that nearly 1 in 10 adults prescribed ADHD drugs are addicted—many without ever “misusing” them—in an epidemic the psychiatric industry fuels for profit.
MENTAL HEALTH
NY Legislature Blocks Governor’s Involuntary Commitment Plan
Governor Kathy Hochul wanted to gut protections and expand psychiatric human rights abuse. New York lawmakers said no.
MENTAL HEALTH
Sexual Assault, Violence, Death, Neglect—Santa Rosa Psychiatric Abuse Thrives Unchecked
A San Francisco Chronicle investigation reveals systemic failures at Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare, where abuse, neglect and underreporting persist without consequence.
MENTAL HEALTH
Falsified Medical Records Used to Commit DC Patients, According to New Litigation
A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”
MENTAL HEALTH
One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry
Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.
MENTAL HEALTH
Thomas Kingston’s Antidepressant-Induced Suicide Still Haunts the UK Psychiatric Industry
A year ago and without warning, the husband of King Charles’ second cousin shot himself in the head after taking psychotropic drugs. The fallout continues as the government makes excuses.
MENTAL HEALTH
UN Demands “Human Rights–Based Approach” to Mental Health
Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.
MENTAL HEALTH
Florida’s Baker Act Leaves Trail of Harm for Involuntarily Committed Veterans
The ease of being involuntarily committed under Florida law discourages many veterans from seeking help. Jordan Hunkin’s suicide is a too-common outcome.
MENTAL HEALTH
Scotland’s Skye House Psych Hospital for Children Is a Horror House of Abuse
Forced drugging, restraint of patients, brutality, cruelty, mockery and abuse were recently dragged out into the open by a startling BBC documentary.
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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa
Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.
MENTAL HEALTH
Poisoned Justice
The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Blunder in the Brain
Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”
