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 ...
The number of involuntary commitments of children under Florida's Baker Act have dropped for children. But experts say the state still relies on the law to deal with children too much.
The Shumlin administration created a regional mental-health treatment system after Tropical Storm Irene damaged the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury in 2011. Act 79, which created the regional ...
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Inequalities in mental health compulsory admissions worsened during the pandemic, UK study finds
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation ...
NY is poised to involuntarily commit people "due to an inability or refusal, as a result of their mental illness, to provide for their own essential needs" such as food, clothing or shelter. The ...
O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...
Mayor Eric Adams delivering his State of the City address in January 2025. Getty Images Mayor Adams is again trying to do something about the city’s out-of-control mentally ill population — but not ...
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