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MENTAL HEALTH
Lawsuits Allege Years of Sexual Abuse at Acadia’s Detroit Behavioral Institute
A new 2026 lawsuit adds to mounting claims that Acadia Healthcare ignored warning signs and allowed rape and abuse to persist inside a now-shuttered facility.
MENTAL HEALTH
Lawmakers Investigate Psychiatric Industry as Spending Surges While Outcomes Worsen Nationwide
As psychiatric treatment doubles and prescriptions surge, key measures show worsening mental health nationwide. A congressional roundtable raised alarms over drug harms and billions lost to fraud.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric Abuse Allegations Mount as Staff Charged at New York Facility
New charges at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health follow video showing a teen being shoved, while a class action lawsuit, prior conviction and $60 million jury award expose a wider pattern.
MENTAL HEALTH
Euthanasia Cases Surge as Psychiatrists Expand Abusive “Treatments” to Include Death
Assisted suicide is no longer limited to terminal illness, with psychiatric patients now deemed capable of giving “informed consent” to die—even as the same system treats them as too insane to live.
MENTAL HEALTH
Virginia Jury Awards $20 Million in Child Abuse Case at Psychiatric Facility
The jury deliberated only three hours before reaching their verdict, after video showed a psychiatric worker dragging a 13-year-old across a room by a shirt wrapped around his neck.
MENTAL HEALTH
Arkansas Department of Human Services Liable for Neglect, Deaths in Human Development Centers
With limited video oversight and dozens of abuse reports, advocates say Arkansas’ Human Development Centers fail to adequately protect vulnerable residents from harm.
MENTAL HEALTH
Watchdog Finds Nursing Homes Use Schizophrenia Diagnoses to Justify Drugging of Elderly Patients
Investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General show that 17 percent of long-stay nursing home residents receive antipsychotics.
MENTAL HEALTH
47 Young Women Claim “Hunger Games” Torture at Michigan Mental Health Facility
Attorney Michael Jaafar represents dozens of girls who allege beatings, forced stripping and sexual misconduct at Vista Maria. The facility ended its residential program amid mounting complaints.
MENTAL HEALTH
Video Evidence Leads to Child Abuse Charge Against Florida Therapist
Footage shows a therapist striking a nonverbal autistic boy with a shoe, racket and other objects—an incident that has reignited scrutiny of abuse risks within behavioral and mental health systems.
MENTAL HEALTH
Iowa State-Run Psychiatric Facility Fined Again After Neglect, Abuse and Deaths
Inspectors found a resident with a body temperature of 105.7 degrees left in a bathtub while staff ignored required checks and emergency protocols.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric Trade Journal Admits Severe SSRI Withdrawal Is Common and Prolonged
After decades of warnings from watchdogs and researchers, the psychiatric establishment finally acknowledges that stopping SSRIs can trigger debilitating physical and mental effects.
MENTAL HEALTH
Utah Could Be the Next State to Ban Electroshock for Minors
FDA still allows ECT for children as young as 13 despite mounting evidence of harm and global calls to outlaw the practice.
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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.”
