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MENTAL HEALTH
Addicts’ Favorite Psychiatrist-Dealer Pays Fine, Avoids Jail in Pill-Mill Scheme
Connecticut psychiatrist let off with a fine and his license intact, despite a long record of fraud. He’s one of too many.
MENTAL HEALTH
Chaotic Clifton T. Perkins Psychiatric Hospital Adds to Its Grim Résumé of Violence and Abuse
Why did it take 75 seconds for personnel to act while a man was lifted up, slammed on the ground twice, kicked in the head and stomped on nearly 20 times? Ask the psychiatric industry of death.
MENTAL HEALTH
Rampant Mental Health Fraud Exploits Arizona’s Indigenous Communities
More than 250 Arizona behavioral health providers have had Medicaid payments suspended because of widespread fraud, throwing patients in the streets and costing taxpayers untold millions.
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
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
“I Was Not Suicidal When I Entered, But I Was When I Left”—Crime & Chaos at DC Psychiatric Institute
Psychiatric Institute of Washington, DC, the city’s only for-profit mental hospital, is home to “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”