TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

A confidential report described a “culture of complacency” at Oregon’s only public psychiatric hospital. Federal investigators cited leadership failures and an ineffective emergency response in the death of Kenneth Hass.

Relatives and friends across 22 countries describe memory loss, cognitive decline, disability and death following electroshock “treatment,” with many saying their loved ones’ lives were permanently destroyed.

Police warn there may be more victims as Wills, already convicted of domestic violence, prepares to stand trial on a rape charge involving a former patient.

Judgment exposes Denmark’s continued use of dangerous psychiatric restraint, affecting thousands of patients each year.

A new 2026 lawsuit adds to mounting claims that Acadia Healthcare ignored warning signs and allowed rape and abuse to persist inside a now-shuttered facility.

New charges at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health follow video showing a teen being shoved, while a class action lawsuit, prior conviction and $60 million jury award expose a wider pattern.

Assisted suicide is no longer limited to terminal illness, with psychiatric patients now deemed capable of giving “informed consent” to die—even as the same system treats them as too insane to live.

The jury deliberated only three hours before reaching their verdict, after video showed a psychiatric worker dragging a 13-year-old across a room by a shirt wrapped around his neck.

Investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General show that 17 percent of long-stay nursing home residents receive antipsychotics.

Footage shows a therapist striking a nonverbal autistic boy with a shoe, racket and other objects—an incident that has reignited scrutiny of abuse risks within behavioral and mental health systems.