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DRUGS
“Worse Than Heroin”—Top UK Cops Call for Crackdown, Stiffer Penalties for Cannabis
Fourteen police chiefs warn that today’s turbocharged cannabis is fueling psychosis, crime and death and are demanding it be reclassified as one of Britain’s most dangerous drugs.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Death of Alice Figueiredo—How a Conviction Exposed the Psychiatric System Built to Forget Her
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.
DRUGS
Crime Gangs Are Turning Quiet British Homes Into Cannabis Farms
Tempted by high rent offers, landlords unwittingly become hosts to criminal drug operations that put entire communities at risk.
DRUGS
Drug Ring that Used Jersey Children as Mules Dismantled in Major Police Operation
More than 40 kids as young as 12 were used to smuggle drugs in a network whose ringleaders were sent to jail.
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.
HUMAN RIGHTS
UK Breaks Human Trafficking Records Despite Landmark Anti-Slavery Law
A government report shows Britain’s anti-slavery law isn’t stopping the rise of forced labor and trafficking. Reports, referrals and exploitation are all at record highs.
MENTAL HEALTH
Study Uncovers 750 Incidents of Coercion and Abuse in UK Psychiatric Facilities
Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Six Convicted for Trafficking Migrants Into Forced Labor on UK Cannabis Farms
“Debt bondage” victims found themselves kidnapped and enslaved on illegal cannabis farms, servicing a pot industry that is booming in the UK.
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.
DRUGS
Epidemic of Flesh-Eating “Tranq” May Be Worse Than Fentanyl
Xylazine is a super-powerful horse tranquilizer that’s cheaper than fentanyl, and often mixed with the drug. It’s a deadly combination.