Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a 5150 hold? The involuntary mental health hospitalization explained. (Illustration by Aisha Yousaf) The term "5150 hold" ...

Researchers at Stanford and a Pennsylvania county are investigating new methods to minimize costly and harmful psychiatric holds. Every year in the U.S., more than 1 million people experiencing some ...

Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a plan Tuesday to connect New Yorkers who have severe, untreated mental illness to emergency and long-term care, focusing on cases in which people have refused voluntary ...

Currently, several states including New York and California are considering legislation that would greatly expand involuntary hospitalization. Perhaps no topic has been more divisive among mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – State lawmakers are considering a bill to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental ...

I was on a call with my friend when a police officer entered her home. It was a chilly winter morning, and she was calling me to debrief about a panic attack she had just experienced. In confusion, ...

In the half-year since the launch of a hotline — touted by Mayor Adams with much fanfare — for cops to call for advice when applying a new policy for forced hospitalization of seriously mentally ill ...

Mayor Adams, who has said that Monday’s fatal stabbing spree was a failure of government, said Tuesday he wants to expand involuntary hospitalization policies to make it easier for cops and outreach ...

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 ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams announced an immediate expansion of an involuntary hospitalization policy. (Justine Goode for The Nation) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

Anita is upset. She’s confused. She doesn’t want to be here. The struggling Windsorite spent months in hospital against her will this year after a mental breakdown and ambulance ride to the emergency ...