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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). These called for a radical change in the practice and organization of mental health care across the world. the biased use of evidence in mental health. (

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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”

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Over the course of two decades, until 2014, Davidson and his team reviewed hundreds of psychiatric facilities across the country as part of a consent decree intended to reform Illinois’ child welfare system.