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Massachusetts Father Files Lawsuit Alleging Psychiatric Drugs Caused Mother to Kill Their Kids
The suit claims a psychiatrist and nurses prescribed Lindsay Clancy a cocktail of antidepressants and sedatives, culminating in the deaths of her children and her leap from a second-story window.
MENTAL HEALTH
Nearly Half of Psychiatric Patients Report Sexual Violence in “Treatment” Facilities
A new watchdog white paper highlights that up to 45 percent of psychiatric inpatients report sexual assault amid widespread deaths, restraints and forced drugging in profit‑driven mental health facilities.
MENTAL HEALTH
Alaska Psychiatrist Indicted After 100 Percent of Insurance Claims Reviewed Found Fraudulent
Bautista allegedly billed for nonexistent sessions and submitted claims while on vacation or out of state—until an Alaska state trooper, whose daughter was “treated” by her, blew the whistle.
MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health Watchdog Demands Action as Sexual Dysfunction Complaints on Antidepressants Grow
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights says FDA approval of antidepressants ignores decades of documented, permanent harms and calls for a full independent investigation into PSSD.
MENTAL HEALTH
Harvard-Affiliated Review Finds Global Psychiatric Industry Corrupt and Coercive
Decades of profit-driven practices have fueled abuse, forced drugging and human rights violations worldwide. Experts demand a complete overhaul.
MENTAL HEALTH
Public Money, Private Harm: Inside the UK’s For-Profit Mental Health System
National inspectors uncover rampant abuse and chronic safety breakdowns across private psychiatric facilities while the NHS spends billions on outsourced “care.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Veteran Groups Rally Behind Informed Consent Act to Require Disclosure of Psychiatric Drug Risks
The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide and other serious side effects.
MENTAL HEALTH
Half a Century Later, Victims of Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Receive Government Compensation
New Zealand’s Lake Alice survivors will finally receive financial redress after enduring beatings, electroshock, chemical restraints and abuse in state care.
MENTAL HEALTH
“Benzos” Are Linked to Years of Brain Damage and Suicide Risk
Long‑term use of common psychiatric drugs like Xanax and Valium can trigger a newly recognized condition that leaves users with years of fatigue, anxiety and cognitive damage.
MENTAL HEALTH
Criminal Impostor Posed as Registered Nurse, Earned £145,000 Working at English Psychiatric Homes
Despite 14 previous convictions, he operated unchecked under a false name before a safety complaint triggered a criminal investigation and a 40-month jail sentence.
MENTAL HEALTH
CCHR Marks Anti-Corruption Day with Documentary Revealing the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Violence
The investigation shows how profit-driven psychiatry and compromised regulators created a crisis of violence masked as “treatment.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Judge Clears Path for Lawsuit Targeting McGill, Royal Victoria Hospital and Canada for MK-Ultra Psychiatric Abuse
The class action will examine how the psychiatric establishment enabled mind control torture that shattered patients’ lives without consent. Survivors say it’s the closest they will ever get to accountability.
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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.”