Watchdog group calls for accountability as mental health spending and treatment surge, including increased antidepressant use ...

“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, ...

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 ...

“Immediate reforms are needed to protect vulnerable populations, especially children, from preventable harm. Lives depend on moving from psychotropic pills to genuine prevention and away from ...

SOURCE: IQVia Total Patient Tracker (TPT) Database, Year 2017, Extracted April 2018.

Chris Cornell’s Wife Rightly Questioned Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Husband’s Death; Coroner Cannot Determine Impact of Suicide-inducing Effects of Drugs on Cornell’s State of… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...