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One link plus two citations: "In December 2024, Congress enacted the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act to finally confront the decades-long crisis of abuse, injury, and death in youth psychiatric and behavioral facilities. The law called for a comprehensive federal investigation, but gave it a three-year timeline.[1] CCHR International supported the measure, but warns that this timeline is now not acceptable given the increasing reports of abuse. Children are being raped, restrained to death, drugged into submission, and traumatized by abusive psychiatrists and staff in facilities that continue to operate despite years of federal and state investigations, lawsuits, and criminal findings. "A 2024 study in Psychiatric Services affirmed that “the use of seclusion and mechanical restraints (S-R) in psychiatric hospitals remains widespread despite the traumatizing effects and risk for lethality,” urging the U.S Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission to enforce mandates to eliminate these practices.[2] But nothing has changed. The abuse is not an anomaly—it is systemic and targets troubled teens especially. "A New York Times report on the troubled teen treatment industry estimated 86 deaths from 2000 to 2015, stating that “more have died in the years since.” Children, it said, are treated in psychiatric residential treatment facilities in ways that are illegal to treat prisoners. It specifically addressed physical and chemical restraint use and the use of seclusion rooms.[3] "Just in the past month, headlines confirm that the brutality is escalating, not abating:" (...) [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |