TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

As psychiatric treatment doubles and prescriptions surge, key measures show worsening mental health nationwide. A congressional roundtable raised alarms over drug harms and billions lost to fraud.

Decades of profit-driven practices have fueled abuse, forced drugging and human rights violations worldwide. Experts demand a complete overhaul.

While 7-year-olds are being handcuffed and taken for involuntary psychiatric evaluations, APA authors claim psychiatric coercion is rare and nearly “always necessary when applied.”