TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE
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MENTAL HEALTH
Researchers Discover Data Vacuum on Antidepressant Withdrawal Hell
Swiss study finds only seven flawed papers on Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome after antidepressants, while 46 percent of those withdrawing face symptoms they describe as “extremely severe.”
MENTAL HEALTH
Black Youth Disproportionately Killed by Violent Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities
A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.
MENTAL HEALTH
Ten Lawsuits Allege Systemic Abuse at Acadia-Run Indiana Psychiatric Facility
Options Behavioral Health is facing lawsuits and investigations after reports of forced drugging, sexual abuse and illegal detainment of children. Yet officials have issued no fines and closed the case.
MENTAL HEALTH
Sexual Assault, Violence, Death, Neglect—Santa Rosa Psychiatric Abuse Thrives Unchecked
A San Francisco Chronicle investigation reveals systemic failures at Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare, where abuse, neglect and underreporting persist without consequence.
MENTAL HEALTH
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.
MENTAL HEALTH
Now They’re Beating the Kids—Abuse of Children at UK Psychiatric Facility Exposed
A new report reveals that staff at Cygnet Joyce Parker Hospital sadistically dragged children to put them in needless restraints—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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
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.
DRUGS
New Research Finds Dangerous Psychedelic Drugs Misrepresented by Psychiatry
With profit as the most obvious motive, psychiatry is pushing dangerous psychedelic drugs at every turn. New research studies are pushing back.
MENTAL HEALTH
Chaotic Clifton T. Perkins Psychiatric Hospital Adds to Its Grim Résumé of Violence and Abuse
Why did it take 75 seconds for personnel to act while a man was lifted up, slammed on the ground twice, kicked in the head and stomped on nearly 20 times? Ask the psychiatric industry of death.