Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Involuntary treatment for homeless people aims to help – but also raises ethical debates. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Over the ...

The City University of New York’s College of Staten Island sits on historic grounds. Before 1987, the campus was the Willowbrook State Development Center, perhaps the nation’s best known and most ...

A new report by Disability Rights North Carolina found that a legal tool used to hold patients against their will for psychiatric treatment is frequently misused — violating patients’ rights and ...

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President Donald Trump has been on a tear against homelessness — not just as part of the takeover in D.C., but everywhere. He sees it as part of his broader fight against lawlessness. Key to that ...

Gov. Hochul said Friday she’d introduce legislation in the state budget that would make it easier to involuntarily commit those suffering from mental illness to hospitals, citing an uptick in violent ...

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 ...

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The appeal process has never really worked for hundreds of mental health patients who are involuntarily committed. By the time an appeal got around to consideration by the reviewing court, a six-month ...

While most individuals with mental health disorders will not be hospitalized, Illinois law allows for involuntary hospital admissions under certain conditions. shironosov Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

Over the past year, cities across the United States have unveiled new policy plans to address homelessness amid rising concerns about health and crime – for homeless people themselves, as well as for ...