TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

Legislators call for stronger oversight after audit exposes widespread neglect, unanswered complaints and apparent efforts to conceal abuse in state hospitals.

Three former residents say they were assaulted as children and silenced by fear. Now, the psychiatric facility is using legal tactics to dodge accountability.

A state-licensed youth psychiatric facility is under fire after a three-year study found repeated abuses, high restraint rates and a string of broken promises to reform.

Almost 950 hours of surveillance footage and thousands of internal records reveal a regime of neglect, secrecy, and physical and sexual abuse in the Canadian province’s psychiatric hospitals.

From electroshock of five-year-olds to deaths in US for-profit hospitals, CCHR told the UN that psychiatry’s coercive practices amount to torture and must be banned worldwide.

While Acadia rakes in billions, shocking allegations suggest the company is putting patients last to maximize corporate profits.

Behind the guise of “care,” psychiatry’s coercive system locks away 1.2 million people annually—fueling overdoses, suicides and billions in profit.

From billing dead patients to defrauding entire communities, the mental health industry’s addiction to Medicaid dollars has become a national crisis.

Despite multimillion-dollar federal settlements, Acadia and UHS face allegations that their facilities remain breeding grounds for exploitation and abuse.

A global survey spanning 44 countries shows nearly 60 percent of electroshock patients weren’t warned of the dangers, and the majority report life got worse.