FACTS
SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE
The South African endeavor for prosperity is sabotaged by psychiatry.
10,000
INCARCERATED
Black South Africans drugged and electroshocked without anesthetic in psychiatric camps.
39%
INCREASE
in antidepressant use in South Africa over the past four years.
50%
INCREASE
in Ritalin prescriptions over one year, reported in Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape province.
58
PSYCH HOSPITALS
in South Africa costing middle-class citizens up to R2700 ($196) a night.
0
CURES
admit psychiatrists at psychiatric association’s international congress in South Africa.
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