Alaska has a 125-year history of using the lowest bid to provide care for psychiatric patients who end up in a locked facility. The well-being and safety of the patients and their recovery have always ...

In May, about six months ago, The Daily Star published my letter to the editor titled, "Don't force psychiatric drugs on patients". Ironically, about 30 days after The Star published it, I was ...

I estimate that there are 10,000 people who rotate in and out of locked psychiatric facilities or units each year in Alaska for a forced evaluation or treatment. State agencies, and that includes the ...

The South Carolina Department of Health (DPH) confirmed that the behavioral facility is being investigated for the potential ...

Connecticut has settled a $9 million lawsuit in the case of William Shehadi, a mentally ill man whose physical and psychological abuse, while he was a patient at the state’s maximum-security ...

In-patient mental health and drug abuse facilities across the country are holding patients involuntarily, now aided by a new Biden administration rule requiring insurers to cover the treatment equally ...

A Seattle Times investigation found medical staff in dozens of states have used spit hoods alongside restraints and sedatives on mental health patients,a practice linked to distress, suffocation and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Márta Bárány after the funeral service for her daughter Jázmin Pellegrini, in Concord, Calif. (Gabrielle Lurie/S.F. Chronicle) ...