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 ...

As Gov. Kathy Hochul pushes a $1 billion plan to overhaul New York’s mental health care system, psychiatric patients at 13 hospitals statewide are being placed in restraints at rates above the ...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

Black psychiatric inpatients are 85% more likely to be restrained with a physical or mechanical hold or with medication than White patients, and often for longer periods, new research suggests. The ...

BOSTON (AP) – The state is considering new rules that would reduce how and when psychiatric patients can be restrained. The new rules would require mental health facilities to train staff to intervene ...

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 new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's inpatient mental health ward for 12 to 17-year-olds. The inspection of the Melville Unit at ...

Restraint is a barbaric business in psychiatry. It would be an understatement to say it was savage. Didn't the psychiatrist tell me that everything they do is to protect the patient? Why do they take ...

The Secure Psychiatric Unit sits on the grounds of the New Hampshire State Prison complex in Concord. It houses people with serious mental illness, but it isn't licensed as a medical facility. Since ...