CCHR Asks Whistleblowers to Report Mental Health Hospital Fraud in the U.S.
The watchdog group points to the estimated $8 billion in annual mental health fraud, including in for-profit behavioral facilities, revealing how they exploit insurance by…
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$20 Billion in Psychiatric Fraud Requires Government Oversight and Patient Protections – Part 1
CCHR’s series on psychiatric fraud aims to assist policymakers and law enforcement in isolating how funding, without accountability for outcomes, has enabled massive financial waste…
UK Legislators Called On to Increase Oversight and Criminal Accountability in U.S. Owned For-Profit Behavioral Hospitals
By CCHR International November 5, 2019 Hundreds of UK legislators have been sent a White Paper on Fraud and Abuse in the UK’s for-profit behavioral…
GlaxoSmithKline Admits to Criminal Pharma Fraud in 3 Billion Dollar Case
British registered company, GlaxoSmithKline, faces $3 billion in penalties after pleading guilty to the biggest health care fraud case in history. GSK admitted that physicians had been bribed to push potentially dangerous drugs in exchange for Madonna tickets, Hawaiian holidays, cash and lucrative speaking tours. They also admitted distributing misleading information regarding the antidepressant Paxil. The report claimed that it was suitable for children, but failed to acknowledge data from studies proving its ineffectiveness in children and adolescents.
Natural News: Amazing facts about psychiatry revealed by psychiatric reformer, Peter Breggin, MD
I can’t think of a more fitting first guest for Mental Health Exposed. Our mission is to expose the fraud, abuse and incompetence in the mental health industry, as well as promote natural and effective methods of healing. Peter Breggin, MD and I discuss all of the above in the premier of Mental Health Exposed on Natural News Radio.
Peter R. Breggin, M.D. is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant with NIMH who is in private practice in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Breggin is the author of more than twenty books including the bestseller Talking Back to Prozac and the medical book Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry. His most recent book is Medication Madness, the Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime. He is also the author of dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles, many in the field of psychopharmacology.