The Risky Business of Foster Youth Drugged in For-Profit Behavioral Hospitals
Legislation is needed to curb the placement of foster youths in for-profit psychiatric facilities while lack of Medicaid oversight of them being drugged and chemically…
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Renewed Psychedelic Drug Research is a Bad “Trip” for Mental Health
Current research into psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental disorders is heading in a dangerous “Brave New World” direction. With a history of psychiatric-intelligence…
School Seclusion & Restraint Ban Should Extend to Psychiatric Facilities
Legislators call for a ban on seclusion rooms and restraint use on schoolchildren, but CCHR says it must extend to all physical and chemical restraint…
African American Minister Fights for Protections Against Mental Health Abuse
Rev. Frederick Shaw reminds African Americans of the Mental Health industry’s history of stigmatizing them—from labeling runaway slaves and civil rights protestors as mentally ill…
For-Profit Psychiatric “Hospitals”: A Year of Police Raids; Staff Arrests; More Allegations of Patient Rapes; Hospital Closures and $152 Million in Lawsuit Payouts and Settlements
By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 13, 2020 For-profit psychiatric facilities paid out $152 million in criminal or civil…
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