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Government must lead the way in turning around deteriorating mental health in England, says Centre for Mental Health

Centre for Mental Health

Responding to the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, the best barometer of mental health among adults in England for almost a decade, Andy Bell said: “In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the effects of many years of austerity, it’s no surprise that mental health in England has deteriorated in recent years.

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

Mad in America

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”

Mad in America

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.

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Usage of Depression Pills in Children and Young People Must Stop

Mad in America

It is a betrayal so deep that I dont know what to say other than what I said in 2014 in a major Danish newspaper article translated into English. 4 Shifting the balance towards social interventions: a call for an overhaul of the mental health system. 5 New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies.