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MENTAL HEALTH
California Supreme Court Says “No Electroshock without Informed Consent” in Major Patient Victory
When it comes to the dangers of electroconvulsive therapy, patients have been left largely unprotected by government regulations—until now.
MENTAL HEALTH
Florida Psychologist Arrested: Sex Trafficked 15-Year-Old Girl in Horror Story for Every Parent
Up to 10 percent of all psychologists and psychiatrists are sexual abusers, according to a mental health watchdog’s report.
MENTAL HEALTH
FDA Rejects Ecstasy for Psychiatric Use, Prompting Drugmaker to Lay Off 75% of Staff
Almost 100 percent of trial participants reported adverse events using this dangerous hallucinogen.
MENTAL HEALTH
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Shuts Down Psychiatric Abusers in Hungary
Involuntary commitment and coercive treatment violates the rights of 10 to 15,000 Hungarians annually.
MENTAL HEALTH
Arrests Surrounding Matthew Perry’s Death Bring Renewed Attention to Ketamine—the Psychiatric Drug That Killed Him
The global market for this “rapid-acting antidepressant” will swell to $3.8 billion by 2027. That is, unless something is done to stop it before more lives are lost.
MENTAL HEALTH
House Appropriations Committee Eliminates Torture Loophole—Halts Electrocution for “Behavior Control”
Everyone, it appears, agrees that the use of violent electric shocks isn’t therapy but torture. Everyone, that is, except the torturers.
MENTAL HEALTH
British Medical Journal Exposes Massive Psychiatric Conflicts of Interest
A 2024 study by the British Medical Journal has exposed a sordid conflict of interest between Big Pharma and members of the American Psychiatric Association.
MENTAL HEALTH
American Psychiatric Association Still Advocating Draconian Torture
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights marched in San Francisco against American psychiatrist’s annual convention.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Psychedelics Bandwagon: Down the Rabbit Hole
Part II of the Freedom investigation into why notorious psychedelic drugs of the 1960s are now being promoted as new panaceas for mental illness by diverse factions seeking reputation or a new cash cow, despite the risks to consumers.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric Victims in New Zealand Demand Justice – Not Apology
Today the hundreds of people who were savaged as innocent children by psychiatrists at Lake Alice are still waiting for the guilty to be held accountable for the abuse and cover up.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatry’s Relentless Hype of “Psychedelics” Turns a Blind Eye to the Drugs’ Dismal and Deadly Track Record of Failure
Notorious psychedelic drugs of the 1960s are now widely promoted as panaceas for mental illness by diverse factions seeking reputation or a new cash cow—both at human expense.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatry’s Brave New World of Psychedelic Drugs
Infamous psychedelic drugs of the 1960s are now being touted as a solution to mental illness, despite the fact that such drugs are illegal in most countries, particularly the United States.
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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.”
