River Vista Behavioral Health, located next to Valley Children's Hospital, submitted a plan of correction and demonstrated ...

For decades, a psychiatric hospital in New Zealand operated with little oversight and enormous power over its patients. People were confined, medicated, and subjected to harsh treatments despite ...

A sweeping new white paper released by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) warns lawmakers that abuse, neglect, preventable ...

When a traumatised and dejected 17-year-old Hajara Musa was thrown out of her home by her father, it did not take long ...

A UNODC report reveals over 4 million people in South-West Nigeria are struggling with drug abuse. Experts call for urgent ...

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Classrooms across Malawi are quietly emptying into psychiatric wards, as officials at Zomba Mental Hospital drop a chilling bombshell: seven out of every ten patients at the country's main mental ...

He was in and out of crisis stabilization units and attempted to seek care at Medicaid-funded community behavioral health ...

A health board has offered an unreserved apology to victims of historical physical and sexual abuse at what was Scotland's first residential psychiatric unit for children in Dumfries. The details are ...

Mental health providers serving Warren County say demand for services continues to grow, even as funding remains tight and ...

Federal funding restored for mental health, addiction programs ...