“Confidential” 988 Conversation Records Shared with Corporations
Recordings of 988 callers’ voice, text, and chat conversations are being shared with researchers, AI developers, and corporations without consent. Read the story on Mad in America.
Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers
New data reveals that four times as many callers to 988 as previously publicly claimed are getting visited by police or emergency medical services in the U.S. Read the article on Mad in America.
Crisis hotlines, like Canada’s new 988, promise confidentiality. So why do so many trace calls and texts?
This article was previously published in the Globe and Mail. Crisis hotlines, like Canada’s new 988, promise confidentiality. So why do so many trace calls and texts? * Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist and author of Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships. * A teen
Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion. Many people who know almost nothing else about the mental health system can nevertheless recount the story of the “failure” of “deinstitutionalization” in America. The story is repeated so often that it’s widely accepted as if it were a famously indisputable
Psychiatric Detentions Rise 120% in First Year of 988
As contacts to the new 988 hotline number have risen, so have call tracing and police interventions, and 81,000 Americans in the past ten months have been subjected to coercive pressure or covert call tracing followed by unrequested visits from police and ambulance and psychiatric detentions. Read the story at Mad in America.