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MENTAL HEALTH

Another Tragic School Shooting—Who Is to Blame?

Parental irresponsibility, the availability of firearms and the failure of the mental health system all become targets for blame. But there is another element that is often overlooked.

MENTAL HEALTH

APA Tries to Downplay Horrific Psychiatric Abuse

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.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Enormous Increase in Women Taking Psychiatric Drugs

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that the number of American women taking ADHD drugs quadrupled since 2003.

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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.”