The Risky Business of Foster Youth Drugged in For-Profit Behavioral Hospitals
Legislation is needed to curb the placement of foster youths in for-profit psychiatric facilities while lack of Medicaid oversight of them being drugged and chemically…
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For-Profit Psychiatric “Hospitals”: A Year of Police Raids; Staff Arrests; More Allegations of Patient Rapes; Hospital Closures and $152 Million in Lawsuit Payouts and Settlements
By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog January 13, 2020 For-profit psychiatric facilities paid out $152 million in criminal or civil…
Sexual Assault, Restraint Abuse, Deaths and Children Put at Risk: The “Return” for Billions Wasted on For-Profit & Private Psychiatric Facilities
Jan Eastgate President, CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog November 18, 2019 Citizens Commission on Human Rights continues to update consumers, families, government and law…
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…
CCHR, Mental Health Industry Watchdog, Rails Against Use of Commitment Laws That Detain Patients for Profit
By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog October 25, 2019 Involuntary commitment laws are being used to detain mental health patients for profit, with…