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HUMAN RIGHTS

CCHR and Child Abuse Survivors Honored for Exposing Psychiatric Torture at Lake Alice

New Zealand’s psychiatric system hid decades of torture and abuse—until survivors and watchdogs ripped the cover off a national disgrace.

MENTAL HEALTH

NHS Billions Fund Deadly Care in For-Profit Mental Health Hospitals

The NHS spent nearly $3 billion last year outsourcing psychiatric care to for-profit private hospitals like Priory—where patients are dying from abuse, neglect and chemical restraint.

MENTAL HEALTH

Study Uncovers 750 Incidents of Coercion and Abuse in UK Psychiatric Facilities

Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.

MENTAL HEALTH

NY Legislature Blocks Governor’s Involuntary Commitment Plan

Governor Kathy Hochul wanted to gut protections and expand psychiatric human rights abuse. New York lawmakers said no.

HUMAN RIGHTS

More Than 40 Allege “Horrific” Abuse, Including Rape, at Detroit Acadia Healthcare Facility

The reports come in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit filed by three women against a former supervisor. It’s “uniquely egregious” alleged behavior at the Detroit Behavioral Institute.

MENTAL HEALTH

Falsified Medical Records Used to Commit DC Patients, According to New Litigation

A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”

MENTAL HEALTH

One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

MENTAL HEALTH

Thomas Kingston’s Antidepressant-Induced Suicide Still Haunts the UK Psychiatric Industry

A year ago and without warning, the husband of King Charles’ second cousin shot himself in the head after taking psychotropic drugs. The fallout continues as the government makes excuses. 

MENTAL HEALTH

UN Demands “Human Rights–Based Approach” to Mental Health

Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.

MENTAL HEALTH

Young & Old Show Grave Side Effects From Use of Antidepressants

Dementia and sexual dysfunction, often persisting for years, is the legacy of the psychiatric death industry and its practice of drugging everyone for everything.