Researchers at Stanford and a Pennsylvania county are investigating new methods to minimize costly and harmful psychiatric holds. Every year in the U.S., more than 1 million people experiencing some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – State lawmakers are considering a bill to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental ...

Nearly 7,800 New Yorkers were taken to hospitals against their will for psychiatric assessments in 2024, according to a new report from the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. These trips were ...

Mental health disorders affect millions of Americans on a yearly basis, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness says 1 in 20 American adults experience serious mental illness each year. A ...

Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a plan Tuesday to connect New Yorkers who have severe, untreated mental illness to emergency and long-term care, focusing on cases in which people have refused voluntary ...

“This policy, while likely formed with good intent, is short-sighted and places more strain on a system that is close to breaking. It also shifts focus and continues to villainize individuals who need ...

New York City leaders are divided over involuntary hospitalizations of people who show signs of severe mental illness, as lawmakers in Albany debate whether to expand officials’ power to remove them ...

I was on a call with my friend when a police officer entered her home. It was a chilly winter morning, and she was calling me to debrief about a panic attack she had just experienced. In confusion, ...

State Senators Dan Laughlin and Anthony Williams introduced a bill in October that they said would help people with substance use disorders “regain control of their lives.” But overdose prevention ...

Content warning: The following article contains a personal narrative of involuntary hospitalization in a UChicago psychiatric facility, including detainment by campus police, detailed descriptions of ...

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