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“You’ll Be Disappeared”: Whistleblower Warns Psychiatric Hospitals Are Seizing the Elderly for Profit

Families of two Vietnam veterans say they were barred from contact as hospitals took control, drained Medicare and let their loved ones die.

MENTAL HEALTH

Unseen. Uncounted. Dead: An Exclusive Freedom Investigation into the VA’s Hidden Suicide Pipeline

At least 17 veterans a day die by suicide. Some families say the VA helped pull the trigger.

MENTAL HEALTH

Regulators Sound Alarm on ADHD Drug Atomoxetine “Side Effects” Suicide and Homicide

Drug regulatory agencies in Germany and Australia have added warnings that atomoxetine can trigger violent or suicidal thoughts—sparking urgent concern over its long‑term use in children and adults.

MENTAL HEALTH

Class Action Launched Over Illegal Preventive Psychiatric Detention in Quebec

Over 50,000 Québécois were involuntarily committed—illegally—between 2015 and 2024, triggering a landmark legal fight for accountability.

MENTAL HEALTH

FDA Panel Warns of SSRI Pregnancy Risks as Media Rushes to Shield Big Pharma

A 10‑member FDA panel met amid mounting evidence that antidepressants may impair fetal brain development.

MENTAL HEALTH

The Shock Treatment That Won’t Die—Psychiatrists Want to Electrocute Your Kids

Psychiatrists push for electroshock on children—even as global bodies condemn it, courts rebuke it and victims recount the brain damage it leaves behind.

MENTAL HEALTH

How “Mental Health Care” Became Ground Zero for Medicaid Fraud

A Minnesota addiction provider’s $18.5 million Medicaid settlement is just the latest in a national epidemic of fake treatment, kickbacks and billing dead patients.

MENTAL HEALTH

Cover-Up for Profit: How Psychiatry Suppressed the Truth About Irreversible PSSD—For Decades

Evidence suggests drugmakers manipulated trials and government failed to respond while patients live with permanent loss of sexual function.

MENTAL HEALTH

Child Deaths Uncover More Psychiatric Abuse and Greed in Wilderness “Therapy” Camps

A broken system protected profit over children’s lives, until two May suicides finally forced action.

MENTAL HEALTH

The Death of Alice Figueiredo—How a Conviction Exposed the Psychiatric System Built to Forget Her

As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.

MENTAL HEALTH

Veteran Suicide Rates Soar as VA Funnels Billions Into Psychiatric Drugs

The Department of Veterans Affairs partners with Big Pharma to fuel “treatment” that triggers the very suicides it claims to prevent.

MENTAL HEALTH

New “Study” Says Kissing Can Spread Depression—Experts Say “Psychiatry Has Lost Its Mind” 

Psychiatry’s newest claim? Kissing can make you very sad. It’s yet more clickbait fearmongering from an industry built on it.

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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa

Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.

MENTAL HEALTH

Poisoned Justice

The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Blunder in the Brain

Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”