The United States is increasingly isolated in its continued reliance on forced psychiatric commitment and treatment, as global human rights institutions move decisively to end coercive mental health ...

Recent UN Disability Committee Statement Reinforces the Urgent Need for Government to Abolish Forced Psychiatric Treatment ...

“There is now unequivocal evidence of the failures of a system that relies too heavily on the biomedical model of mental health services, including the front-line and excessive use of psychotropic ...

Girl finally heading home after ’16-month nightmare’ Even though Justina had been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, which causes muscle pain and weakness, doctors at Boston… ...

New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years after the… ...

My book, The CIA Doctors, [i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers ...

“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 ...

“Forced ECT, drugging, seclusion, restraint, and involuntary institutionalization constitute potential torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. These are not medical interventions; they are ...

More than one-third of children on Medicaid in the foster care system are prescribed psychotropic drugs, a higher amount than non-foster children under Medicaid, according to a study led by an ...

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 ...

With millions of people prescribed psychiatric drugs, clearly not everyone taking them (or in withdrawal) will experience violence, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation. However, according to ...