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Psychiatric Trade Journal Admits Severe SSRI Withdrawal Is Common and Prolonged

After decades of warnings from watchdogs and researchers, the psychiatric establishment finally acknowledges that stopping SSRIs can trigger debilitating physical and mental effects.

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Major Study Finds 0 of 22 New Psychiatric Drugs Were Clinically Helpful

The peer‑reviewed analysis reveals that psychotropics have failed to produce benefit for patients even as their use has surged and serious risks accumulate, prompting calls for regulatory overhaul.

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One in Four Dementia Patients Prescribed Lethal Psychiatric Drugs, According to First-of-Its-Kind Study

A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.

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Massachusetts Father Files Lawsuit Alleging Psychiatric Drugs Caused Mother to Kill Their Kids

The suit claims a psychiatrist and nurses prescribed Lindsay Clancy a cocktail of antidepressants and sedatives, culminating in the deaths of her children and her leap from a second-story window.

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Veteran Groups Rally Behind Informed Consent Act to Require Disclosure of Psychiatric Drug Risks

The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide and other serious side effects.

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“Benzos” Are Linked to Years of Brain Damage and Suicide Risk

Long‑term use of common psychiatric drugs like Xanax and Valium can trigger a newly recognized condition that leaves users with years of fatigue, anxiety and cognitive damage.

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CCHR Marks Anti-Corruption Day with Documentary Revealing the Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Violence

The investigation shows how profit-driven psychiatry and compromised regulators created a crisis of violence masked as “treatment.”

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New Report Exposes Human Cost of Involuntary Psychiatric Lockups

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

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Illinois Mandates Student Mental Health Screenings, Sparking Outrage

Illinois is the first state to mandate mental health screenings in schools. Opponents call it a reckless experiment that will harm and drug children, while Big Pharma profits.

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Scotland’s Skye House Psych Hospital for Children Is a Horror House of Abuse

Forced drugging, restraint of patients, brutality, cruelty, mockery and abuse were recently dragged out into the open by a startling BBC documentary.