Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Figuring out the laws around mental health challenges can make you feel like a chicken running on a treadmill, as in this ...

Involuntary psychiatric treatment for people with serious mental illness should focus on returning to health instead of reducing danger. I was out with a group of physicians whom I did not know well.

Many people in mental health crisis fear that if they dial 988, law enforcement might show up or they might be forced to go to the hospital. But getting sent that kind of "involuntary emergency rescue ...

David Young, in the midst of an apparent mental health crisis, forced his way into the home of his neighbor, Labor Commissioner Michael Harrington, with a knife. After he was released from Central ...

The Joseon scholar Lee Moon-geon (1494–1567) left behind the *Yang Arokg* (養兒錄), or "Record of Raising a Child." The subject ...

Across Canada, more provinces are trying to expand involuntary care for those suffering from addiction. The N.W.T. limits it ...

Charles Byers. Irvo Otieno. Their names have tragically become well-known in Central Virginia for how they died — in the ...