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How “Mental Health Care” Became Ground Zero for Medicaid Fraud

A Minnesota addiction provider’s $18.5 million Medicaid settlement is just the latest in a national epidemic of fake treatment, kickbacks and billing dead patients.

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Cover-Up for Profit: How Psychiatry Suppressed the Truth About Irreversible PSSD—For Decades

Evidence suggests drugmakers manipulated trials and government failed to respond while patients live with permanent loss of sexual function.

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Child Deaths Uncover More Psychiatric Abuse and Greed in Wilderness “Therapy” Camps

A broken system protected profit over children’s lives, until two May suicides finally forced action.

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Coercive Psychiatric Drugging on America’s Streets Sparks Outcry From Human Rights Advocates

Coercive psychiatry shifts from institutional asylums to mobile clinics, extending control over vulnerable populations under the guise of “treatment.”

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Paul Durcan, Irish Poet Who Survived Psychiatric Abuse to Become a National Icon, Dies at 80

Psychiatry tried to crush his art with shock, drugs and fear. Instead, Paul Durcan built a legacy that defined Irish poetry for generations.

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Involuntary Commitment in NC Called “Abusive and Dehumanizing” in New Rights Report

Disability Rights NC urges an end to coercive psychiatric detentions after exposing widespread misuse in North Carolina.

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Abuse and Neglect Plague Arizona’s Mingus Mountain All-Girls Psychiatric Facility

Former patients describe horrific sexual abuse and violent restraints at Mingus Mountain. Lawmakers are demanding a full review to protect vulnerable teens.

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Executives Rewarded While Patients Died at Troubled Illinois Psychiatric Facility

Amid deaths, lawsuits and federal probes, Acadia executives secured seven-figure bonuses.

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Locked Up for Being Stalked: How the Psychiatric Apparatus Victimizes Women

A stalker on the roof, a beating at home—and psychiatry’s answer? Drug and lock her up.

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Michigan Psychiatric Hospital Collapses Along with the System That Enabled It

Pontiac General lost federal funding after a damning record of abuse and neglect. Now it seeks accreditation while housing just four patients.