Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

Sen. Matt Claman introduced Senate Bill 231 last legislative session. If passed, some adolescents in locked psychiatric facilities would have better access to family. The mistake with the bill: It ...

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 ...

Kim Kovol, commissioner of the state Department of Family and Community Services, wrote a Nov. 18 opinion piece praising the staff at the state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute. I also commend the API ...

Westchester Medical Center Health Network hospitals discharged patients with active suicidal ideation or other emergency psychiatric conditions without proper stabilization, a NY AG probe revealed.

The founder of a mental health crisis-support software platform presented her work during a Summit for Mental Health and AI ...

ODESSA, Texas — Local physicians are seeing more patients coming into emergency rooms but now they're calling for more support. "As an emergency physician we see anyone, anywhere [and] anytime for ...