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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.
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.”
MENTAL HEALTH
CCHR Demands Compensation and Apologies for Nearly a Century of Racism and Forced Sterilization
With cheerleading from the American Psychiatric Association, eugenics and forced sterilization are a shameful chapter in US history. Calls for compensation and apologies are being slowrolled.
MENTAL HEALTH
Drug Manufacturers Sponsor Drug Trials, Ignore Negative Results
A review of published psychiatric drug trials shows that successful outcomes are more often published, and unsuccessful outcomes never see the light of day. Is it publication bias?
MENTAL HEALTH
Culture of Violence, Rape and Death Exposed at Maryland Psychiatric Hospital
Clifton T. Perkins psychiatric hospital has been the center of wrongdoing, from bullying and a restraining order to mismanagement leading to at least one patient death.
MENTAL HEALTH
Yale Psychiatrists Using Taxpayer Millions to Get Depressed People High on a Dangerous Drug
Two psychiatrists get $12.6 million to learn how best to use ketamine on the depressed, despite ample signs of the drug’s danger, like the death of Matthew Perry. Who is behind the drive to normalize this killing drug?
MENTAL HEALTH
ECT Leads to Cardiac Deaths According to New Study
Psychiatry still uses dangerous electroconvulsive “therapy” despite the risks and often without informed consent. Even worse, guidelines do not require cardiac consultations before shocking patients.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatry Attempts to Improve Its Horrible Image by Befriending Religions—While Denigrating Faith
With 60 percent of parishioners preferring clergy for mental health support, psychiatrists are looking for ways to improve their dismal trust rating with the public. Perhaps they would be better served ending psychiatric abuse.
MENTAL HEALTH
New Boston Study Reveals ADHD Drugs Can Cause Psychosis. We Already Knew That.
While ADHD prescriptions have shot up 30 percent for adults ages 20 to 39, it’s just been demonstrated that amphetamine use increases the risk of psychosis by up to five times.
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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.”
