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MENTAL HEALTH
NY Legislature Blocks Governor’s Involuntary Commitment Plan
Governor Kathy Hochul wanted to gut protections and expand psychiatric human rights abuse. New York lawmakers said no.
MENTAL HEALTH
One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry
Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.
MENTAL HEALTH
UN Demands “Human Rights–Based Approach” to Mental Health
Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.
MENTAL HEALTH
Florida’s Baker Act Leaves Trail of Harm for Involuntarily Committed Veterans
The ease of being involuntarily committed under Florida law discourages many veterans from seeking help. Jordan Hunkin’s suicide is a too-common outcome.
MENTAL HEALTH
Cops Become “Mental Health Arbiters” as Involuntary Hospitalizations in NYC Soar
They call it “involuntary transport” to hide what they’re really doing: facilitating psychiatric human rights abuse.
MENTAL HEALTH
New Study Finds Abuse in “Prison-Like” Psychiatric Facilities
The University of Birmingham’s first-of-its-kind analysis of 111 studies from 25 nations reveals that psychiatric patients are traumatized and abused.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatry’s Abusive Baker Act & VA Behind Soldier’s Suicide
The VA admits their own deficient care and wrongful use of Florida’s Baker Act in relation to Jordan Hunkin’s death. Worse, it’s far from the first time.
MENTAL HEALTH
Alaska Principal of the Year Sues Psychiatric Facility for Violating Her Civil Rights
Mary Fulp was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility and forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs—all “because I love Jesus,” she says.
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
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Shuts Down Psychiatric Abusers in Hungary
Involuntary commitment and coercive treatment violates the rights of 10 to 15,000 Hungarians annually.
