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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ronald Exantus, 42, will be released from the Kentucky State Reformatory on July 29. Still, before that, he may be subject to ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness in the wake of a spate of violence in the subway. In a statement ...

In March or 2007, after subsisting for five years with untreated schizophrenia, which manifested as severe psychosis, delusions, homelessness, and incarceration, I was taken to a psychiatric hospital ...