Mental Health Profiteers

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 7:40 p.m.

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Mental health profiteers: The dark world of online anxiety \\u2018cures\\u2019.\\nJane Deith and Jordan Dunbar investigate the rogue operators exploiting the long wait for mental health services on the NHS. The explosion in unregulated online recovery programmes has led to claims of people paying thousands of pounds for treatment by unqualified practitioners which has made their anxiety worse \\u2013 not better. File on 4 investigates one company guaranteeing to cure anxiety in children. And we ask \\u2013 why isn\\u2019t the law protecting people who seek help online?

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