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

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The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. the biased use of evidence in mental health. (

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

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That’s how I describe my son Will’s mental health journey, which began in 2021, turning a typical night with friends into a nightmare. Pamela: Imagine a 3D sci-fi movie where a character’s body is turned inside out. On ce a healthy young man preparing for college, he seemed to be escaping his own body.

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College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) - Untitled Article

College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)

The College for Behavioral Health Leadership Signs Historic Mental Health 7-Pillar Roadmap to Stem Crisis in Mental Health and Substance Use Care Roadmap for Recovery Includes Focus on Early Intervention, Emergency Crisis Response, Leveling of Racial and Economic Inequalities in Health Care, Parity in Payment by Health Insurance Plans, Among Other (..)

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

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The same year, Virginia’s CPS agency sent 17-year-old Raven Nichole Keffer to UHS’s Newport News Behavioral Health Center, where she collapsed after days of complaining of feeling sick. According to a lawsuit , a 15-year-old patient was the first to call 911; Keffer died of an allegedly preventable adrenal insufficiency.