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Tennessee Leads Charge to Uncover Psychiatric Drug Role in Mass Violence

The state’s groundbreaking law demands public accountability and total transparency on psychiatric drugs tied to mass murder.

MENTAL HEALTH

Magic Mushroom Use Surges While Psychiatrists Push Deadly Psychedelics as “Therapy”

Psilocybin use among 12th graders jumped 53 percent in four years, with even higher numbers expected as new data rolls in.

MENTAL HEALTH

FDA Tries to Slam Shut the Revolving Door—After Decades of Industry Capture

From cozy relationships to blockbuster approvals, a new FDA policy promises transparency after decades of industry entanglement. But is it too little, 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

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.

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

Study Shreds Claims Behind Psychiatry’s Push for LSD

Funded by a drug company, the study hoped to prove the “benefits” of dropping acid. Instead, once again, psychiatry’s dangerous miracle cures fizzle under scrutiny.

MENTAL HEALTH

New Study Finds ADHD Drugs Are Causing Rampant Addiction as Prescriptions Soar

A new study reveals that nearly 1 in 10 adults prescribed ADHD drugs are addicted—many without ever “misusing” them—in an epidemic the psychiatric industry fuels for profit.

MENTAL HEALTH

NY Legislature Blocks Governor’s Involuntary Commitment Plan

Governor Kathy Hochul wanted to gut protections and expand psychiatric human rights abuse. New York lawmakers said no.

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

Falsified Medical Records Used to Commit DC Patients, According to New Litigation

A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”

MENTAL HEALTH

One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa

Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.

MENTAL HEALTH

Poisoned Justice

The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Blunder in the Brain

Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”