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Mental Health Profiteers

Mental health profiteers: The dark world of online anxiety 鈥榗ures鈥�.
File on 4 investigates the rogue online operators charging thousands and guaranteeing to 鈥榗ure鈥� anxiety.

Mental health profiteers: The dark world of online anxiety 鈥榗ures鈥�.
Jane 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 鈥� not better. File on 4 investigates one company guaranteeing to cure anxiety in children. And we ask 鈥� why isn鈥檛 the law protecting people who seek help online?

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