A new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's inpatient mental ...

In the first five months of 2024, staff physically restrained patients an average of 150 times per month, or five times in a ...

Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center, a psychiatric residential facility in Cañon City that serves youth ages 10 to 18, ...

CCHR says legislative protections are needed prohibiting chemical and physical restraint and punitive seclusion rooms, not only in the U.S. but globally. Mental health industry watchdog says ...

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

The 66-page report is based on a nearly two-year investigation by Marie-France Pelletier, who is an independent officer of ...

Last May, Disability Rights Connecticut published a report aiming to expose the wrongdoings of Connecticut Mental Health Center, a state-owned inpatient psychiatric facility in New Haven. The report ...

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 ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

A report has said the use of physical restraint on children at the Melville Unit at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children ...