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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

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.

MENTAL HEALTH

Scotland’s Skye House Psych Hospital for Children Is a Horror House of Abuse

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

MENTAL HEALTH

Chaotic Clifton T. Perkins Psychiatric Hospital Adds to Its Grim Résumé of Violence and Abuse

Why did it take 75 seconds for personnel to act while a man was lifted up, slammed on the ground twice, kicked in the head and stomped on nearly 20 times? Ask the psychiatric industry of death.

MENTAL HEALTH

UK Psychiatric Facilities Flout Law, Maiming Patients With “Prone Restraint”

Seni’s Law in the UK bans the disproportionate and inappropriate use of face-down psychiatric restraint because it kills patients. The death industry that is psychiatry doesn’t care.

MENTAL HEALTH

Coroner’s Report on Latest Death at the Hands of Psychiatry Is a Condemnation: “Gross Failure”

The multibillion-dollar industry of death that is psychiatry has been unable to cover its bloody tracks this year—which is why public trust in psychiatry is dead.