A Tampa mental health care facility is under investigation after someone died in their care. Records show the staff used the ...
A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...
Tewksbury State Hospital, a state-run hospital north of Boston with a large mental health patient population, has a history of problems. Now, WBZ-TV's I-Team has learned the Massachusetts Department ...
We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...
A Tampa mental health care facility is under investigation after someone died in their care. Records show the staff used the ...
Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...
Restraint levels at North East mental health and learning disability hospitals have fallen significantly ...
LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...
Non-Hispanic Black youth between the ages of 5 and 18 years old are more likely to undergo pharmacologic restraint during mental health crises than children of other races and ethnicities. The ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 23, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) – As U.S. policies increasingly promote involuntary psychiatric commitment for homeless populations following a July 2025 executive order, the ...