Wiley teamed up with Community Service Board of Middle Georgia to have certified peer support specialists meet with inmates once a week.

Disability Rights NC (DRNC) published a damning report this week examining North Carolina’s involuntary commitment process.

A disability rights group says a legal procedure used to administer psychiatric treatment is being misused in emergency ...

Disability Rights NC spent a year investigating the state’s overuse of the legal procedure, which leaves patients locked up at a high cost with few rights.

Navigate mental health challenges in Georgia with our guide on Georgia’s mental health laws and available resources for support.

It would be a terrifying return to the policies of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when individuals could be committed to ...

A local mother, Kitara Johnson, is rallying the Spokane community to combat the growing number of fentanyl-related deaths following the loss of her son, Gabriel Johnson, to ...

Philadelphia officials may have an aggressive new tactic to combat the opioid epidemic: involuntarily committing people ...

WRTV Investigates has uncovered a gap in how the state oversees mental health facilities and protects our most vulnerable.

Some of New York’s mental health advocates say while they feel there are some significant holes that need to be filled following changes to New York’s involuntary commitment standards in the state ...

“We give meaning to the Legislature’s specific guarantee of the right to appeal temporary commitment orders by holding that the order’s expiration does not moot a timely appeal unless the ...