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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.

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?

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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.”