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MENTAL HEALTH
Anyone Is Vulnerable, as Another Antidepressant Death Touches the Royal Family
Even the coroner specified that the self-inflicted death was an “adverse effect” of the antidepressant the man had been prescribed. Adverse indeed—and all too preventable.
MENTAL HEALTH
Behavioral Health Provider Fined $2.5 Million for Claiming to Treat Dead Patients—and Other Abuses
North Carolina’s Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services was ripping off US taxpayers for more than four years before they got caught.
MENTAL HEALTH
Five Lawsuits Against Indiana Psychiatric Hospital Point to Systemic Abuse
Options Behavioral Health Hospital stands accused of exaggerating symptoms or adjusting drug dosages to justify prolonged hospitalization.
MENTAL HEALTH
Foster Children on Psychotropic Drugs Are an Epidemic Requiring Urgent Reform
Abuses abound in foster care and elsewhere, as over 6 million kids are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs. Over 400,000 of them are five years old or younger, and no one is tracking the side effects.
MENTAL HEALTH
NIMH Scamming Taxpayers with Multibillion-Dollar Con Game That Accomplishes Nothing
NIMH operates by draining our pockets; torturing helpless animals in pointless, useless, ridiculous tests; wasting mountains of money; and doing absolutely nothing to effectively improve our country’s mental health.
MENTAL HEALTH
Coroner’s Report on Latest Death at the Hands of Psychiatry Is a Condemnation: “Gross Failure”
The multibillion-dollar industry of death that is psychiatry has been unable to cover its bloody tracks this year—which is why public trust in psychiatry is dead.
MENTAL HEALTH
Statistics Show Intrinsic Racist Bigotry of Psychiatry
For hundreds of years, the racist principles of psychiatry have manifested in everything from involuntary commitment rates to eugenics.
MENTAL HEALTH
Big Pharma Seeking Ways to Bypass New Rules about Broadcast Drug Warnings in Ads
New FDA rules requiring clear warnings of dangerous side effects in drug ads is setting off alarms at drug companies: How do you legally distract from “Antidepressants may increase suicidal thoughts and actions and worsen depression in children and young adults”?
MENTAL HEALTH
Pontiac Psychiatric Hospital: The Wages of Sin Is Bankruptcy
Chapter 11 filing comes on the heels of Pontiac’s loss of federal funding after credible charges of abuse, violence and one preventable death.
MENTAL HEALTH
Pontiac Hospital Latest in Tsunami of Reports of Violence and Abuse at Psychiatric Institutions
A Michigan psychiatric hospital loses government funding over abuse allegations that include an unwarranted death and coercion to receive dangerous treatment.
MENTAL HEALTH
“Mental Health” Counselors Continue to Rip Off American Taxpayers
Twenty billion in annual fraud originates in the mental health industry. In the latest embarrassment, three Connecticut counselors were caught red-handed.
MENTAL HEALTH
New WMA Guidelines Authorize Forced Experiments on the Mentally Ill
Dehumanizing the so-called mentally ill by authorizing coercive experiments is a regression to an ugly past.
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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.”
