TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.

In a major human rights victory, Italy bans involuntary psychiatric detention without due process. The ruling challenges coercive mental health practices worldwide.

Six years after doctors petitioned for Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction label warnings, the FDA has done nothing. Now, victims are speaking out—before more lives are destroyed.

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.”

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.

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.

A San Francisco Chronicle investigation reveals systemic failures at Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare, where abuse, neglect and underreporting persist without consequence. 

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

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.

They call it “involuntary transport” to hide what they’re really doing: facilitating psychiatric human rights abuse.