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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?

MENTAL HEALTH

ECT Leads to Cardiac Deaths According to New Study

Psychiatry still uses dangerous electroconvulsive “therapy” despite the risks and often without informed consent. Even worse, guidelines do not require cardiac consultations before shocking patients.

MENTAL HEALTH

Psychiatry Attempts to Improve Its Horrible Image by Befriending Religions—While Denigrating Faith

With 60 percent of parishioners preferring clergy for mental health support, psychiatrists are looking for ways to improve their dismal trust rating with the public. Perhaps they would be better served ending psychiatric abuse.

MENTAL HEALTH

New Boston Study Reveals ADHD Drugs Can Cause Psychosis. We Already Knew That.

While ADHD prescriptions have shot up 30 percent for adults ages 20 to 39, it’s just been demonstrated that amphetamine use increases the risk of psychosis by up to five times.

MENTAL HEALTH

Harold Sackeim’s Conflicts of Interest at the Heart of Dangerous Industry of Electroshock

A web of connections between Sackeim, manufacturers and a government official creates a profit center out of the human misery of electroshock.

MENTAL HEALTH

With Its Streamlined New Baker Act, Florida Embraces the Human Rights Abuse the Rest of the World Condemns

Florida’s House Bill 7021 emboldens institutional psychiatry’s abuse and makes it more profitable for providers.

MENTAL HEALTH

“Imagine” a World Without Psychiatry—But With Better Mental Health 

The truth about psychiatry is shocking: It’s created an industry of “treatments” that do far more harm than good in addressing “diseases” that don’t exist.

MENTAL HEALTH

Harming in the Name of Help: Traveling Exhibit Shines Light on Psychiatric Human Rights Abuses

As psychiatric drug prescriptions soar, so do suicide rates, to the highest since 1941.

MENTAL HEALTH

California Supreme Court Says “No Electroshock without Informed Consent” in Major Patient Victory

When it comes to the dangers of electroconvulsive therapy, patients have been left largely unprotected by government regulations—until now.

MENTAL HEALTH

Florida Psychologist Arrested: Sex Trafficked 15-Year-Old Girl in Horror Story for Every Parent

Up to 10 percent of all psychologists and psychiatrists are sexual abusers, according to a mental health watchdog’s report.

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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.”