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MENTAL HEALTH
Ohio Public Health Campaign Sounds Alarm on Akathisia & Psychiatric Drug Dangers
Psychiatric drug side effects like akathisia are too often dismissed—until it’s too late.
MENTAL HEALTH
NHS Billions Fund Deadly Care in For-Profit Mental Health Hospitals
The NHS spent nearly $3 billion last year outsourcing psychiatric care to for-profit private hospitals like Priory—where patients are dying from abuse, neglect and chemical restraint.
MENTAL HEALTH
Thomas Kingston’s Antidepressant-Induced Suicide Still Haunts the UK Psychiatric Industry
A year ago and without warning, the husband of King Charles’ second cousin shot himself in the head after taking psychotropic drugs. The fallout continues as the government makes excuses.
MENTAL HEALTH
UN Demands “Human Rights–Based Approach” to Mental Health
Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.
MENTAL HEALTH
Florida’s Baker Act Leaves Trail of Harm for Involuntarily Committed Veterans
The ease of being involuntarily committed under Florida law discourages many veterans from seeking help. Jordan Hunkin’s suicide is a too-common outcome.
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.
MENTAL HEALTH
Anyone Is Vulnerable, as Another Antidepressant Death Touches the Royal Family
Even the coroner specified that the self-inflicted death was an “adverse effect” of the antidepressant the man had been prescribed. Adverse indeed—and all too preventable.
MENTAL HEALTH
Harming in the Name of Help: Traveling Exhibit Shines Light on Psychiatric Human Rights Abuses
As psychiatric drug prescriptions soar, so do suicide rates, to the highest since 1941.
