EXPOSÉS / MENTAL HEALTH
LATEST
MENTAL HEALTH
Ohio Public Health Campaign Sounds Alarm on Akathisia & Psychiatric Drug Dangers
Psychiatric drug side effects like akathisia are too often dismissed—until it’s too late.
MENTAL HEALTH
Black Youth Disproportionately Killed by Violent Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities
A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.
MENTAL HEALTH
Abuse and Neglect Plague Arizona’s Mingus Mountain All-Girls Psychiatric Facility
Former patients describe horrific sexual abuse and violent restraints at Mingus Mountain. Lawmakers are demanding a full review to protect vulnerable teens.
MENTAL HEALTH
Executives Rewarded While Patients Died at Troubled Illinois Psychiatric Facility
Amid deaths, lawsuits and federal probes, Acadia executives secured seven-figure bonuses.
MENTAL HEALTH
Locked Up for Being Stalked: How the Psychiatric Apparatus Victimizes Women
A stalker on the roof, a beating at home—and psychiatry’s answer? Drug and lock her up.
MENTAL HEALTH
Michigan Psychiatric Hospital Collapses Along with the System That Enabled It
Pontiac General lost federal funding after a damning record of abuse and neglect. Now it seeks accreditation while housing just four patients.
MENTAL HEALTH
Tennessee Leads Charge to Uncover Psychiatric Drug Role in Mass Violence
The state’s groundbreaking law demands public accountability and total transparency on psychiatric drugs tied to mass murder.
MENTAL HEALTH
Magic Mushroom Use Surges While Psychiatrists Push Deadly Psychedelics as “Therapy”
Psilocybin use among 12th graders jumped 53 percent in four years, with even higher numbers expected as new data rolls in.
MENTAL HEALTH
FDA Tries to Slam Shut the Revolving Door—After Decades of Industry Capture
From cozy relationships to blockbuster approvals, a new FDA policy promises transparency after decades of industry entanglement. But is it too little, too late?
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
Ten Lawsuits Allege Systemic Abuse at Acadia-Run Indiana Psychiatric Facility
Options Behavioral Health is facing lawsuits and investigations after reports of forced drugging, sexual abuse and illegal detainment of children. Yet officials have issued no fines and closed the case.
FROM THE MAGAZINE
DATELINE
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.”
