Recent allegations that Arkansas psychiatrist Brian Hyatt imprisoned nearly 100 patients in the Northwest Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Unit and forced treatment on them exemplify the systemic ...
Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...
“Far from protecting children, these programs risk false labeling, dangerous psychotropic-drugging, and stripping parents of their constitutional rights to direct their child’s care.” – Jan Eastgate, ...
Watchdog group calls for accountability as mental health spending and treatment surge, including increased antidepressant use ...
Documented side effects of antidepressants include suicidal behavior, heart problems, mania, psychosis, hostility, aggression, withdrawal reactions, birth defects and more, according to international ...
SOURCE: IQVia Total Patient Tracker Database for 2017, extracted April 2018.
SOURCE: IQVia Total Patient Tracker (TPT) Database, Year 2017, Extracted April 2018.
CCHR, mental health industry watchdog, advises parents to obtain facts behind dangers of prescribed stimulants that school- and college-age students abuse, erroneously thinking them safe….
“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...
“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.
You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...